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• Column

  ·noun A small army. II. Column ·noun A perpendicular line of figures. III. Column ·noun The body f...

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• column

  A body of troops in deep files and narrow front, so disposed as to move in regular succession. ...

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• Flying

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Fly>>. II. Flying ·vi Moving in the air with, or as with, wings; moving lightl...

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• Flying boat

  ·add. ·- A compact form of hydro-aeroplane having one central body, or hull. ...

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• Flying fish

  ·- A fish which is able to leap from the water, and fly a considerable distance by means of its larg...

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• Flying squirrel

  ·- One of a group of squirrels, of the genera Pteromus and Sciuropterus, having parachute-like folds...

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• flying camps

  Beggars plying in a body at funerals. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flying giggers

  Turnpike gates. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flying house

  A lock in wrestling, by which he who uses it throws his adversary over his head. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flying pasty

  Sirreverence wrapped in paper and thrown over a neighbour's wall. ...

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• flying porters

  Cheats who obtain money by pretending to persons who have been lately robbed, that they may come fro...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flying stationers

  Ballad-singers and hawkers of penny histories. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flying-fox

  n. a gigantic Australian bat, Pteropus poliocephalus, Temm. It has a fetid odour anddoes great damag...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• flying-mouse

  n. See opossum-mouse and flying-phalanger. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• flying-phalanger

  n. included in the classof Phalanger (q.v.). The «flying» Phalangers «havedeveloped large parachute...

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• flying-squirrel

  n. popular name for aFlying-Phalanger, Petaurus sciureus, Shaw, a marsupialwith a parachute-like fo...

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• kite flying

  An expression well known to mercantile men of limited means, or who are short of cash. It is a combi...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• flying about

  Synonymous with chop-about (which see). ...

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• flying dutchman

  A famous marine spectre ship, formerly supposed to haunt the Cape of Good Hope. The tradition of sea...

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• flying jib

  A light sail set before the jib, on the flying jib-boom. The third jib in large ships, as the inner ...

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• flying-kites

  The very lofty sails, which are only set in fine weather, such as skysails, royal studding-sails, an...

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• flying-light

  The state of a ship when she has little cargo, provisions, or water on board, and is very crank. ...

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• flying-to

  Is when a vessel, from sailing free or having tacked, and her head thrown much to leeward, is coming...

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• set flying

  Sails that do not remain aloft when taken in, but are hauled on deck or stowed in the tops, as skysa...

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• Flying Horse Court

  1) North out of Maiden Lane, west of Wood Street, between Wood Street and Haberdashers' Hall (Strype...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Flying Horse Yard

  1) East out of Old Broad Street, in Broad Street Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). Former name : "Wh...

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• flying jib-boom

  A spar which is pointed through the iron at the jib-boom end. It lies beside it, and the heel steps ...

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• Flying Horse Court, Yard

  North out of Fleet Street to Serjeants Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799)....

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• Flying Horse Inn, Yard, Houndsditch

  East out of Bishopsgate Street and north to Houndsditch, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677...

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• Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate

  See Foster Street. ...

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• Flying Horse Yard, Half Moon Alley

  West out of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without, south of Half Moon Alley (P.C. 1732-Elm...

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