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Body
·noun Amount; quantity; extent. II. Body ·noun A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; an...

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body
A person. A colloquial expression used both in England and America. Good may come out of evil, and ...

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dogs
To go to the dogs. To go to destruction; to be ruined, destroyed, or devoured.--Johnson. Had whol...

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body
a simpleton. N. ...

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body
The principal corps of an army, or the main strength of a fleet. ...

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dogs
The last supports knocked away at the launching of a ship. ...

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Dog's-bane
·noun ·see <<Dogbane>>. ...

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Dog's-ear
·noun The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. ...

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Dog's-tongue
·noun Hound's-tongue. ...

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Torpedo body
·add. ·- An automobile body which is built so that the side surfaces are flush. ...

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Dog's Head
In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

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body snatchers
Bum bailiffs. ...

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bull dogs
Pistols. ...

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dog's portion
A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer o...

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dog's rig
To copulate till you are tired, and then turn tail to it. ...

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dog's soup
Rain water. ...

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dog's wife
Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch. ...

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dog's tongue
n. name given to the plant Cynoglossum suaveolens, R. Br., N.O. Asperifoliae. ...

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dog's bane
(Apocynum androsæmifolium.) The common name of a shrub, which grows along the road-side and borders ...

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poor body!
i. e. Poor Creature. Durham. ...

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after-body
That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...

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body-hoops
Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...

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body-plan
The draught of a proposed ship, showing the breadth and timbers; it is a section supposed to cut the...

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body-post
An additional stern-post introduced at the fore-part of an aperture cut in the dead-wood in a ship f...

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cant-body
An imaginary figure of that part of a ship's body which forms the shape forward and aft, and whose p...

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dog's tail
A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear. ...

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fog-dogs
Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...

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fore-body
An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead. ...

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main-body
The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army. ...

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ring-dogs
Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...

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sling-dogs
In timber lifting, a dog is an iron implement with a fang at one end, and an eye at the other, in wh...

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Dog's-tail grass
·noun A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is we...

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body, of a place
In fortification, the space inclosed by the enceinte, or line of bastions and curtains. ...

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furling in a body
A method of rolling up a top-sail only practised in harbour, by gathering all the loose part of the ...

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Dog's Head in the Pot
A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...

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longitude of a celestial body
An arc of the ecliptic, contained between the first point of Aries and a circle of longitude passing...

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Dog's Head and Pottage-Pot Court
Out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the...

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terminal velocity of any given body
The greatest velocity it can acquire by falling freely through the air; the limit being arrived at w...

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body of divinity bound in black calf
A parson. ...

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hoddy doddy, all a-se and no body
A short clumsy person, either male or female. ...

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