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cocoa-nut tree
The Palma cocos yields toddy; the nut, a valuable oil and milky juice; the stem, bark, branches, &c....
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sea cocoa-nut
, or double cocoa-nut.
The fruit of the Lodoicea seychellarum, a handsome palm growing in the Seyc...
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Cocoa
·- ·Alt. of Cocoa palm.
II. Cocoa ·noun A preparation made from the seeds of the chocolate tree, an...
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cocoa
, or chocolate nuts
commonly so termed. (See cacao.) It is the breakfast food of the navy.
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Nut
·vi To gather nuts.
II. Nut ·noun The tumbler of a gunlock.
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nut
n.
1) Slang. Explained in quotation.
1882. A. J. Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p. 60:
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nut
A small piece of iron with a female screw cut through the middle of it, for screwing on to the end o...
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Double
·adv Twice; doubly.
II. Double ·noun Double beer; strong beer.
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double
To tip any one the double; to run away in his or her debt.
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Cocoa palm
·- A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, a...
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Sea cocoa
·- A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an i...
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Becuiba nut
·add. ·- The nut of the Brazilian tree Myristica Bicuhyba, which yields a medicinal balsam used for ...
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Ben nut
·- The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. ·see <<Moringa>>.
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Betel nut
·- The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and sh...
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Brazil nut
·- An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.
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Cola nut
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Cola seed.
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Coquilla nut
·- The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).
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Kola nut
·add. ·- ·same·as <<Cola>>, Cola nut.
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Neckar nut
·- ·see Nicker nut.
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Nickar nut
·- ·Alt. of Nickar tree.
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Nicker nut
·- A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or blui...
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Nut-brown
·adj Brown as a nut long kept and dried.
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Para nut
·- The Brazil nut.
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Penang nut
·- The betel nut.
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Queensland nut
·- The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contai...
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Sawarra nut
·- ·see Souari nut.
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Souari nut
·- The large edible nutlike seed of a tall tropical American tree (Caryocar nuciferum) of the same n...
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Taqua-nut
·noun A Central American name for the ivory nut.
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Vomic nut
·- ·same·as Nux vomica.
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bonduc nut
n.
a name in Australia for the fruit of the widely distributed plant Caesalpinabonducella, Flem., N...
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candle-nut
n.
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nut, bonduc
n.
See bonduc nut.
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nut, burrawang
n.
See burrawang.
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nut, candle
n.
See candle-nut.
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nut, nicker
n.
See bonduc nut.
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nut, Queensland
n.
See Queensland nut.
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nut, union
n.
See union nut.
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nut-grass
n.
an Australian plant, Cyperus rotundus, Linn., N.O. Cyperaceae. The specific andthe vernacular na...
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nut-palm
n.
a tree, Cycas media,R. Br., N.O. Cycadeae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 21:
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palm nut
n.
See under nut.
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Queensland nut
n.
a wild fruit-tree, Macadamia ternifolia, F. v. M., N.O. Proteaceae.
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union nut
n.
a fine cabinet timber, Bosistoa sapindiformis, F. v. M., N.O. Rutaceae.
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dough-nut
A small roundish cake, made of flour, eggs, and sugar, moistened with milk, and boiled in lard.--Web...
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pea-nut
The common name for the fruit of the arachis hypogea. It is also called the ground nut and earth nut...
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peccan nut
The nut of the peccan tree, the carys oliviormia of the Southern States.
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pig-nut
(Lat. juglans porcina.) A small species of walnut.--Michaux, Sylva.
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cob-nut
a game, which consists in pitching at a row of nuts piled up in heaps of four, that is, three at bot...
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deaf-nut
a nut whose kernel is decayed. N.
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Double dealer
·- One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person.
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Double dealing
·- False or deceitful dealing. ·see Double dealing, under <<Dealing>>.
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Double first
·- A degree of the first class both in classics and mathematics.
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Double pedro
·add. ·- Cinch (the game).
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Double-acting
·adj Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a d...
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Double-bank
·vt To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
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Double-banked
·adj Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being ...
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Double-barreled
·adj ·Alt. of Double-barrelled.
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Double-barrelled
·adj Having two barrels;
— applied to a gun.
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Double-breasted
·adj Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, ...
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Double-charge
·vt To <<Overcharge>>.
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Double-decker
·noun A man-of-war having two gun decks.
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Double-dye
·vt To dye again or twice over.
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Double-dyed
·adj Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a d...
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Double-ender
·noun A locomotive with pilot at each end.
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Double-entendre
·noun A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or in...
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Double-eyed
·adj Having a deceitful look.
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Double-faced
·adj Deceitful; hypocritical; treacherous.
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Double-handed
·adj Having two hands.
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Double-headed
·adj Having two heads; bicipital.
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Double-hung
·adj Having both sashes hung with weights and cords;
— said of a window.
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Double-lock
·vt To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security.
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Double-milled
·adj Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine;
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Double-quick
·noun Double-quick time, step, or march.
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Double-ripper
·noun A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the othe...
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Double-shade
·vt To double the natural darkness of (a place).
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Double-surfaced
·add. ·adj Having two surfaces;
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Double-tongue
·noun Deceit; duplicity.
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Double-tongued
·adj Making contrary declarations on the same subject; deceitful.
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Double-tonguing
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double jug
A man's backside. Cotton's Virgil.
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double, to
To cover a ship with an extra planking, usually of 4 inches, either internally or externally, when t...
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double-banked
When two opposite oars are pulled by rowers seated on the same thwart; or when there are two men lab...
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double-bitted
Two turns of the cable round the bitts instead of one.
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double-block
One fitted with a couple of sheaves, in holes side by side.
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double-breeching
Additional breeching on the non-recoil system, or security for guns in heavy weather.
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double-capstan
One shaft so constructed as to be worked both on an upper and lower deck, as in ships of the line, o...
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double-crown
A name given to a plait made with the strands of a rope, which forms part of several useful and orna...
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double dutch coiled against the sun
Gibberish, or any unintelligible or difficult language.
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double eagle
A gold coin of the United States, of 10 dollars; value £2, 1 s. 8 d., at the average rate of exchang...
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double-futtocks
Timbers in the cant-bodies, extending from the dead-wood to the run of the second futtock-head.
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double insurance
Where the insured makes two insurances on the same risks and the same interest.
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double-ironed
Both legs shackled to the bilboe-bolts.
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double-jack
See jack-screw.
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double-land
That appearance of a coast when the sea-line is bounded by parallel ranges of hills, rising inland o...
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double-sided
A line-of-battle ship painted so as to show the ports of both decks; or a vessel painted to resemble...
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double-star
Two stars so close together as to be separable only with a telescope. They are either optically so o...
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double-tide
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.)
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double-whip
A whip is simply a rope rove through a single block; a double whip is when it passes through a lower...
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star, double
See double-star.
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Double-beat valve
·- ·see under <<Valve>>.
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Double Hand Court
See Double Hood Court.
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Double Hood Court
North out of Upper Thames Street by Campion Lane in Dowgate Ward (Boyle, 1799).
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double-acting engine
One in which the steam acts upon the piston against a vacuum, both in the upward and downward moveme...
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double deck-nails
See deck-nails.
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double-headed maul
One with double faces; top-mauls in contradistinction to pin-mauls.
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double-headed shot
Differing from bar-shot by being similar to dumb-bells, only the shot are hemispherical.
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double-image micrometer
Has one of its lenses divided, and separable to a certain distance by a screw, which at the same tim...
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double upon, to
See doubling upon.
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double wall-knot
With or without a crown, or a double crown, is made by intertwisting the unlaid ends of a rope in a ...
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physical double-star
See double-star and binary system.
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East Smithfield Double Passage
On Tower Hill (Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in the maps.
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work double-tides, to
Implying that the work of three days is done in two, or at least two tides' work in twenty-four hour...
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double-bank a rope, to
To clap men on both sides.
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