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Fog
·noun A state of mental confusion. II. Fog ·noun A second growth of grass; aftergrass. III. Fog ·v...

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fog
Smoke. CANT. ...

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fog
long grass : more properly after-grass. North. Coarse grass. Norf. and Suff. ...

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fog
A mist at sea, consisting of the grosser vapours floating in the air near the surface of the sea. Th...

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

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Fog belt
·add. ·- A region of the ocean where fogs are of marked frequency, as near the coast of Newfoundland...

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fog-bank
A dense haze, presenting the appearance of a thick cloud resting upon the horizon; it is known in hi...

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fog-bow
A beautiful natural phenomenon incidental to high latitudes. It appears opposite to the sun, and is ...

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fog-eater
A synonym of fog-dog and fog-bow. It may be explained as the clearing of the upper stratum, permitti...

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fog-signals
The naval code established by guns to keep a fleet together, to tack, wear, and perform sundry evolu...

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

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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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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth. ...

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

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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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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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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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