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Calm
·noun To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds. II. Calm ·noun To...

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calm
There being no wind stirring it is designated flat, dead, or stark, under each of which the surface ...

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Flat
·vi To fall form the pitch. II. Flat ·noun A homaloid space or extension. III. Flat ·noun Somethin...

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flat
A bubble, gull, or silly fellow. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
flat
1) In cant language, a foolish fellow; a simpleton.--Worcester. The London Times, of Sept. 5, 1847,...

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flat
In ship-building, a straight part in a curve. In hydrography, a shallow over which the tide flows, a...

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calm latitudes
That tropical tract of ocean which lies between the north-east and south-east trade-winds; its situa...

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clock-calm
When not a breath of wind ruffles the water. ...

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dead-calm
A total cessation of wind; the same as flat-calm. ...

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Alkali flat
·add. ·- A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an ...

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Flat foot
·- A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upo...

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Flat-bottomed
·adj Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat. ...

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Flat-cap
·noun A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London aft...

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Flat-footed
·adj Firm-footed; determined. II. Flat-footed ·adj Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of th...

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Flat-headed
·adj Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail. ...

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flat cock
A female. ...

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flat pea
n. a genus of Australian floweringplants, Platylobium, N.O. Leguminosae. 1793. `Transactions of Li...

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pea, flat
n. See flat pea. ...

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to flat out
To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...

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flat-footed
Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...

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dead-flat
The timber or frame possessing the greatest breadth and capacity in the ship: where several timbers ...

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flat-aback
When all the sails are blown with their after-surface against the mast, so as to give stern-way. ...

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flat-aft
The sheets of fore-and-aft sails may be hauled flat-aft, as the jib-sheet to pay her head off, the d...

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flat-bottomed
When a vessel's lower frame has but little upward inclination. ...

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flat-fish
The Pleuronectidæ, a family of fishes containing the soles, flounders, turbots, &c., remarkable for ...

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flat-nails
Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds...

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flat seam
The two edges or selvedges of canvas laid over each other and sewed down. ...

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flat seizing
This is passed on a rope, the same as a round seizing, but it has no riding turns. ...

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fall calm, to
Speaking of the weather, implies a total cessation of the wind. ...

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