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Shot
·pl of Shot.
II. Shot ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Shoot.
III. Shot ·vt To load with shot, as a gun.
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shot
To pay one's shot; to pay one's share of a reckoning. Shot betwixt wind and water; poxed or clapped....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shot
Another pronunciation of the word scot, a reckoning.
As the fund of our pleasure, let each pay his ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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shot
All sorts of missiles to be discharged from fire-arms, those for great guns being mainly of iron; fo...
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Eye
·noun Tinge; shade of color.
II. Eye ·noun A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.
III. Eye ·noun The ho...
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Eye
(Heb. ain, meaning "flowing"), applied (1) to a fountain, frequently; (2) to colour (Num. 11:7; R.V....
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eye
It's all my eye and Betty Martin. It's all nonsense, all mere stuff.
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eye
The circular loop of a shroud or stay where it goes over the mast.
♦ To eye, to observe minutely.
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Eye
(The practice of painting the eyelids to make the eyes look large, lustrous and languishing is often...
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Anchor shot
·add. ·- A shot made with the object balls in an anchor space.
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Burrel shot
·- A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, ·etc., fired from a cannon at short range, ...
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Case shot
·- A collection of small projectiles, inclosed in a case or canister.
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Flight-shot
·noun The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, — about the fifth of a mile.
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Headmold shot
·- ·Alt. of Headmould shot.
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Headmould shot
·- An old name for the condition of the skull, in which the bones ride, or are shot, over each other...
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Masse shot
·noun A stroke made with the cue held vertically.
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Pot shot
·add. ·- Lit., a shot fired simply to fill the pot; hence, a shot fired at an animal or person when ...
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Shot samples
·add. ·- Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granul...
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Shot-clog
·noun A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, o...
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Shot-free
·adj Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
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Shot-proof
·adj Impenetrable by shot.
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Sight-shot
·noun Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown.
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Snap shot
·add. ·- Act of taking a snapshot (in sense 2).
II. Snap shot ·add. ·- A quick offhand shot, made w...
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Split shot
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Split stroke.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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buck-shot
n.
a settlers' term for ageological formation. See quotation.
1851. `The Australasian Quarterly,' ...
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shanghai-shot
n.
a short distance,a stone's-throw.
1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels' [Introduction toTottlep...
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by a long shot
By a long way; by a great deal.
Mr. Divver offered a resolution summarily removing the superintende...
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slung-shot
An offensive weapon formed of two leaden or iron bullets fastened together by a piece of rope five o...
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shot-flagon
the host's pot, given where the guests have drank above a shilling's worth of ale. Derb.
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angel-shot
A ball cut in two, and the halves joined by a chain.
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canister shot
See case-shot, common.
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chain-shot
Two balls connected either by a bar or chain, for cutting and destroying the spars and rigging of an...
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chilled shot
Shot of very rapidly cooled cast-iron, i.e. cast in iron moulds, and thus found to acquire a hardnes...
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ear-shot
The distance or range of hearing.
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fresh shot
A river swollen by rain or tributaries; it also signifies the falling down of any great river into t...
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gun-shot
Formerly, the distance up to which a gun would throw a shot direct to its mark, without added elevat...
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hail-shot
Small shot for cannon.
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hollow shot
Introduced principally for naval use before the horizontal firing of shells from guns became general...
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hot-shot
Balls made red-hot in a furnace. Amongst the savages in Bergou, the women are in the rear of the com...
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long-shot
A distant range. It is also used to express a long way; a far-fetched explanation; something incredi...
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musket-shot
Was the computed distance of 400 yards, now undergoing change.
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random shot
A shot, or coup perdu, made when the muzzle is highly elevated; the utmost range may be at an angle ...
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round shot
The cast-iron balls fitting the bores of their respective guns, as distinguished from grape or other...
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sand-shot
Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...
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shot-locker
A compartment built up in the hold to contain the shot.
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shot-net
A mackerel-net.
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shot-plugs
Tapered cones to stop any sized shot-hole.
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shot-racks
Wooden frames fixed at convenient distances to contain shot.
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spent shot
A shot that has lost its penetrative velocity, yet capable of inflicting grave injury as long as it ...
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tier-shot
That kind of grapeshot which is secured in tiers by parallel iron discs.
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trundle-shot
An iron bolt 16 or 18 inches long, with sharp points, and a ball of lead just inside each head.
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quarter-shot
See water-shot
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water-shot
, or quarter-shot.
When a ship is moored, neither across the tide, nor right up and down, but quar...
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Bird's-eye
·adj Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.
II. Bird's-...
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Blue-eye
·noun The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
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Bull's-eye
·noun The center of a target.
II. Bull's-eye ·noun A small and thick old-fashioned watch.
III. Bul...
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Bullock's-eye
·noun ·see Bull's-eye, 3.
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Cat's-eye
·noun A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye...
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Cross-eye
·noun ·see <<Strabismus>>.
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Dead-eye
·noun A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three ...
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Evil eye
·- ·see Evil eye under Evil, ·adj.
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Eye opener
·add. ·- That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink ...
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Eye-minded
·add. ·adj Having one's mental imagery prevailingly of the visual type; having one's thoughts and me...
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Eye-saint
·noun An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes.
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Eye-splice
·noun A splice formed by bending a rope's end back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop o...
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Eye-spot
·noun An eyelike spot of color.
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Eye-spotted
·adj Marked with spots like eyes.
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Ferret-eye
·noun The spur-winged goose;
— so called from the red circle around the eyes.
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Goggle-eye
·noun The <<Goggler>>.
II. Goggle-eye ·noun One of two or more species of American fresh-water fish...
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Golden-eye
·noun A duck (Glaucionetta clangula), found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American vari...
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Heddle-eye
·noun The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.
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Moon-eye
·noun The <<Cisco>>.
II. Moon-eye ·noun A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a...
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Sheep's-eye
·noun A modest, diffident look; a loving glance;
— commonly in the plural.
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Squint-eye
·noun An eye that squints.
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Tiger-eye
·noun A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much us...
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Wall-eye
·noun The alewife;
— called also wall-eyed herring.
II. Wall-eye ·noun A California surf fish (Hol...
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White-eye
·noun Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops pal...
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Evil eye
(Prov. 23:6), figuratively, the envious or covetous. (Comp. Deut. 15:9; Matt. 20:15.)
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black eye
We gave the bottle a black eye, i.e. drank it almost up. He cannot say black is the white of my eye;...
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bull's eye
A crown-piece.
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to cutty-eye
To look out of the corners of one's eyes, to leer, to look askance. The cull cutty-eyed at us; the f...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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eye-sore
A disagreeable object. It will be an eye-sore as long as she lives, said by a limn whose wife was cu...
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jew's eye
That's worth a Jew's eye; a pleasant or agreeable sight: a saying taken from Shakespeare.
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blue-eye
n.
a bird name. The Blue facedHoney-eater (q.v.).
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p...
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bull's-eye
n.
a fish of New South Wales, Priacanthus macracanthus, Cuv.and Val. Priacanthus, says Guenther, is...
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golden-eye
n.
the bird Certhialunulatu, Shaw; now called Melithreptus lunulatus,Shaw, and classed as White-nap...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ring-eye
n.
one of the many names for thebirds of the genus Zosterops (q.v.).
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silver-eye
n.
a bird-name. Same as Wax-eye, White-eye, or Blight-bird (q.v.).
1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of N...
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wax-eye
i.q. one of the many names for the birdcalled Silver-Eye, White-Eye, Blight-Bird,etc. See Zosterops....
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white-eye
n.
another name for the bird calledvariously Silver-Eye, Wax-Eye, Blight-Bird, etc., Zosterops (q.v...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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buck-eye
In the Western States, the people of each are known by certain nicknames. The natives of Ohio are ca...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-eye
That sort of squint, by which both the eyes turn towards the nose, so that the rays, in passing to t...
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eye-breen
the eye-brows. Lane. F.
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artificial eye
An eye worked in the end of rope, which is neater but not so strong as a spliced eye.
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bull's-eye
A sort of block without a sheave, for a rope to reeve through; it is grooved for stropping. Also, th...
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dead-eye
, or dead man's eye.
A sort of round flattish wooden block, or oblate piece of elm, encircled, and...
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elliot-eye
The Elliot-eye, introduced by the Hon. Admiral Elliot, secretary of the Admiralty, is an eye worked ...
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eye-bolts
Those which have an eye or opening in one end, for hooking tackles to, or fastening ropes.
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eye-sore
Any disagreeable object.
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eye-splice
(See splice.) A kind of splice made by turning the end of a rope back, and the strands passed throug...
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flemish eye
A kind of eye-splice, in which the ends are scraped down, tapered, passed oppositely, marled, and se...
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gimlet-eye
A penetrating gaze, which sees through a deal plank.
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made-eye
Synonymous with Flemish eye (which see).
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ox-eye
A small cloud, or weather-gall, seen on the coast of Africa, which presages a severe storm. It appea...
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weather-eye
"Keep your weather-eye open," be on your guard; look out for squalls.
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case-shot, common
Called also canister-shot. Adapted for close quarters if the enemy be uncovered. It consists of a nu...
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
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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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spherical case-shot
See shrapnel shell.
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Bird's-eye maple
·- ·see under <<Maple>>.
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bung your eye
Drink a dram; strictly speaking, to drink till one's eye is bunged up or closed.
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cock your eye
Shut one eye: thus translated into apothecaries Latin.--Gallus tuus ego.
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finger in eye
To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly applied to women. The more you cry the less you'll p-ss; a c...
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bull's-eye cringle
A piece of wood in the form of a ring, which answers the purpose of an iron thimble; it is seldom us...
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dead man's eye
See dead-eye
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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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throw of the shot
See dispart of the shot
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dispart, or throw of the shot
The difference between the semi-diameter of the base-ring at the breech of a gun, and that of the ri...
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flight of a shot
The trajectory formed between the muzzle of the gun and the first graze.
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moor quarter-shot, to
To moor quartering, between the two ways of across and along.
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drop in the eye
Almost drunk.
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larry dugan's eye water
Blacking: Larry Dugan was a famous shoe-black at Dublin.
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bird of the eye
the pupil or sight of the eye. Suff.
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eye of an anchor
The hole in the shank wherein the ring is fixed.
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eye of a stay
That part of a stay which is formed into a sort of collar to go round the mast-head; the eye and mou...
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eye of the wind
The direction to windward from whence it blows. (See wind's-eye.)
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eye of a block-strop
That part by which it is fastened or suspended to any particular place upon the sails, masts, or rig...
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half an eye, seeing with
Discerning instantly and clearly.
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score of a dead eye
The groove round which the rope passes.
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black's the white of my eye
When Jack avers that no one can say this or that of him. It is an indignant expression of innocence ...
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turn in a dead-eye or heart, to
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it.
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