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After
·adj Hinder; nearer the rear.
II. After ·prep Below in rank; next to in order.
III. After ·prep Be...
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after
A comparative adjective, applied to any object in the hind part of a ship or boat; as, the after-cab...
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fore-and-aft
From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...
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fore
fŏre, inf., irregular, from the obsolete fuo, and equivalent to futurum esse; and fŏrem, fores, fore...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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fore
fore, forem see sum.
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Fore
·adv Formerly; previously; afore.
II. Fore ·adv In or towards the bows of a ship.
III. Fore ·vi Jo...
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fore
The distinguishing character of all that part of a ship's frame and machinery which lies near the st...
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fore-and-aft sails
Jibs, staysails, and gaff-sails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. They extend from the...
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After damp
·- An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. ·see Carboni...
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After-dinner
·noun The time just after dinner.
II. After-dinner ·adj Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an aft...
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After-eatage
·noun <<Aftergrass>>.
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After-glow
·noun A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset.
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After-image
·noun The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been...
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After-mentioned
·adj Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).
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After-note
·noun One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from th...
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After-sails
·noun The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
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After-wit
·noun Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
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After-witted
·adj Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
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after-clap
A demand after the first given in has been discharged; a charge for pretended omissions; in short, a...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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after night
After nightfall; in the evening; as, "A meeting will be held in the court-house after night." This e...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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at-after
afterwards. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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after-body
That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...
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after-clap
Whatever disagreeable occurrence takes place after the consequences of the cause were thought at an ...
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after-end
The stern of a ship, or anything in her which has that end towards the stern.
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after-face
See back of the post.
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after-guard
The men who are stationed on the quarter-deck and poop, to work the after-sails. It was generally co...
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after-ladder
leads to captain's and officers' quarters, and only used by officers.
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after-orders
Those which are given out after the regular issue of the daily orders.
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after-part
The locality towards the stern, from dead-flat; as, in the after-part of the fore-hold.
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after-peak
The contracted part of a vessel's hold, which lies in the run, or aftermost portion of the hold, in ...
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after-rake
That part of the hull which overhangs the after-end of keel.
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after-sails
All those on the after-masts, as well as on the stays between the main and mizen masts. Their effect...
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after-timbers
All those timbers abaft the midship section or bearing part of a vessel.
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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
II. And ·conj It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Fore part
·noun ·Alt. of <<Forepart>>.
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Fore teeth
·pl of Fore tooth.
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Fore tooth
·- One of the teeth in the forepart of the mouth; an <<Incisor>>.
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Fore-night
·noun The evening between twilight and bedtime.
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Fore-topgallant
·adj Designating the mast, sail, yard, ·etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. ·see ...
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Fore-topmast
·noun The mast erected at the head of the foremast, and at the head of which stands the fore-topgall...
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Fore-topsail
·noun ·see <<Sail>>.
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Fore Court
1) At Bridewell, Fleet Ditch (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
2) At Doctors'...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fore Street
East out of Redcross Street at No. 34 to No. 9 Finsbury Pavement (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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fore-handed
To be fore-handed is to be in good circumstances; to be comfortably off. The expression is much used...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fore-end
the beginning of a week, month, or year. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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fore-think
to be sorry for ; to repent. North.
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fore-bay
A rising at a lock-gate flooring. Also, the galley or the sick-bay.
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fore-body
An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead.
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fore-bowline
The bowline of the fore-sail.
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fore-braces
Ropes applied to the fore yard-arms to change the position of the fore-sail occasionally.
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fore-cockpit
See cockpit.
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fore-course
The fore-sail (which see).
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fore-deck
That part from the fore-mast to the bows.
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fore-finger
, or index-finger.
The pointing finger, which was called shoot-finger by the Anglo-Saxons, from it...
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fore-foot
The foremost piece of the keel, or a timber which terminates the keel at the forward extremity, and ...
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fore-goer
The same as fore-ganger.
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fore-gripe
See gripe.
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fore-guy
A rope to the swinging-boom of the lower studding-sail.
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fore-hammer
The sledge-hammer which strikes the iron on the anvil first, if it be heavy work, but the hand-hamme...
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fore-hold
The part of the hold before the fore hatchway.
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fore-hoods
The foremost of the outside and inside planks of a vessel.
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fore-hooks
The same as breast-hooks (which see).
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fore-lightroom
See light-room.
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fore-magazine
See magazine.
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fore-mast
The forward lower-mast in all vessels. (See mast.)
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fore-ness
An old term for a promontory.
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fore-peak
The contracted part of a vessel's hold, close to the bow; close forward under the lower deck.
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fore-rake
That part of the hull which rakes beyond the fore-end of the keel.
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fore-sail
The principal sail set on the fore-mast. (See sail.)
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fore-ship
An archaic form of forecastle of a ship; it means the fore-part of a vessel.
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fore-shrouds
See shrouds.
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fore-staff
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies. The fore-staff, call...
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fore-stage
The old name for forecastle.
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fore-tack
Weather tack of the fore-sail hauled to the fore-boomkin when on a wind.
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fore-tackle
A tackle on the fore-mast, similar to the main-tackle (which see). It is used for similar purposes, ...
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fore-thwart
The seat of the bowman in a boat.
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fore-yard
(See yard.)
For the yards, sails, rigging, &c., of the top-mast and topgallant-mast see those two ...
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stay-tackles, fore and main
Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...
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to tag after
To follow closely after.--Forby.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Fore Old Jewry
By Aldgate (W. Stow, 1722, and Rev. of London, 1728).
See Jewry Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fore Street Avenue
North out of Fore Street at No. 72 (P.O. Directory), with a branch West to Moor Lane and east to Moo...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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fore cat-harpings
See cat-harpings.
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fore-man afloat
The dockyard officer in charge of the shipwrights working on board a ship not in dock.
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fore-mast man
From "before the mast." A private seaman as distinguished from an officer of a ship.
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fore-reach, to
To shoot ahead, or go past another vessel, especially when going in stays: to sail faster, reach bey...
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fore-sheet horse
An iron bar fastened at its ends athwart the deck before the mast of a sloop, for the foresail-sheet...
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fore-sheet traveller
An iron ring which traverses along on the fore-sheet horse of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel.
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haul aboard the fore and main tacks
This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side.
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Castor and Pollux
·- ·see Saint Elmo's fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
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In and an
·adj & ·adv Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. ·see under <<Breeding>...
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In-and-in
·noun An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, eithe...
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Lords and Ladies
·- The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with ...
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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
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Tom and Jerry
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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Tops-and-bottoms
·noun ·pl Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food fo...
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
·add. ·- Two things practically alike;
— a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "O...
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Azur and Azzur
Helper.
1) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer. 28:1).
2) The father of Jaazaniah (Ezek. ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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By and by
Immediately (Matt. 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
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Castor and Pollux
The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or scul...
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Jachin and Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubi...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Tryphena and Tryphosa
Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Bell and Crown
On the north side of Holborn, east of Furnival's Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without. The southern porti...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
Earliest mention: "le Cat...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(The) Crown and Cushion
See Pay Office.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Hand and Still
In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Hoare and Co
Premises on the west side of Water Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Horwood, 1799).
Site occupied i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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The Rose and Crown
A house so called in parish of St. Michael Crooked Lane demised to the use of the church and parish ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bird and baby
The sign of the eagle and child.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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black and white
In writing. I have it in black and white; I have written evidence.
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bubble and squeak
Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.
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buttock and file
A common whore and a pick-pocket. Cant.
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buttock and twang, or down buttock and sham file
A common whore, but no pickpocket.
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buttock and tongue
A scolding wife.
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to chop and change
To exchange backwards and forwards. To chop, in the canting sense, means making dispatch, or hurryin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ducks and drakes
To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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gamon and patter
Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.
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gog and magog
Two giants, whose effigies stand on each side of the clock in Guildhall, London; of whom there is a ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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guts and garbage
A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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here and thereian
One who has no settled place of residence.
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hide and seek
A childish game. He plays at hide and seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for deb...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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inside and outside
The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.
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milk and water
Both ends of the busk.
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monks and friars
Terms used by printers: monks are sheets where the letters are blotted, or printed too black; friars...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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orthodoxy and heterodoxy
Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second ...
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pothooks and hangeks
A scrawl, bad writing.
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quick and nimble
More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...
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quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
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roaratorios and uproars
Oratorios and operas.
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roast and boiled
A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast an...
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six and tips
Whisky and small beer. IRISH.
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sixes and sevens
Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture, &c. is sca...
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tarring and feathering
A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chock-and-log
n. and adj.
a particularkind of fence much used on Australian stations. The Chock is a thick short ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tagrag-and-bobtail
n.
a species of sea-weed.See quotation.
1866. S. Hannaford, `Wild Flowers of Tasmania,' p. 80:
«I...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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wattle-and-dab
a rough mode of architecture, verycommon in Australia at an early date. The phrase and itsmeaning ar...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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by fits and starts
At short and sudden intervals interruptedly.
As prayer is a duty of daily occurrence, the injunctio...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to cut and run
To be off; to be gone.--Holloway's Prov. Dictionary.
Originally a nautical term. To cut the cable o...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to rake and scrape
To collect.
Where under the sun, says I to myself, did he rake and scrape together such super-super...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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back and forth
Backwards and forwards, applied to a person in walking, as, "He was walking back and forth." A commo...
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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
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black and white
To put a thing into black and white, is, to commit it to writing. In use in Scotland.--Jamieson.
I ...
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chinking and daubing
The process of filling with clay the interstices between the logs of houses in the new countries. In...
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cut and dried
Ready made.
I am for John C. Calhoun for the presidency; and will not go for Mr. Van Buren, the man...
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hammer and tongs
In a noisy, furious manner. Thus, 'They went at it hammer and tongs,' is said of persons quarrelling...
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hand and glove
Intimate, familiar; i. e. as closely united as a hand and its glove. 'They are hand and glove togeth...
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hither and yon
This expression is often used in the country towns of New England for here and there. It is never he...
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hums and hahs
A familiar expression applied to one who hesitates in speaking. 'None of your hums and hahs!' that i...
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long and short
The end; the result; the upshot.
You see I should have bore down on Sol Gills yesterday, but she to...
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off and on
Vacillating, changeable, undecided; in which sense it is much used with us. In England it is also us...
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out and out
1) Thorough.
Henry Clay is such a statesman as the country wanted. We want a long tried, well known...
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sixes and sevens
'To be at sixes and sevens,' is to be in a state of disorder and confusion. A ludicrous expression t...
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spack and applejees
(Dutch.) Pork and apples, cooked together. An ancient Dutch dish made in New York.
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tarring and feathering
A punishment sometimes inflicted by indignantly virtuous mobs in Southern and Western States, on per...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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ways and means
The committee of 'ways and means,' in legislation, is a committee to whom is intrusted the considera...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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whig and tory
Names of political parties. The history of the origin of these names is thus given by Cooke: "Accord...
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whigs and democrats
It is very difficult to give a precise, accurate, and satisfactory definition of the principles dist...
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boke and bane
lusty and strong. N. and Y.
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cockers and trashes
old stockings without feet, and worn-out shoes. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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counterfeits and trinkets
porringers and saucers. Chesh.
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cricks and howds
pains and strains. N.
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fending and proving
disputing, arguing pro and con. C.
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grin and abide
to endure patiently. You must grin and abide it. North.
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heads and plucks
the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb.
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hither and you
here and there, backwards and forwards. N.
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marry and shall
i. e. that I will. North.
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milt and melt
the soft roe of a fish. York.
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money and gold
silver and gold. York.
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peas and sport
See scadding of peas.
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rid and ridden
dispatch and dispatched : It rids well : it goes on fast. It will soon be ridden, i. e. got rid of. ...
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runches and runchballs
carlock, when dried and withered. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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saugh and sauf
sallow. N.
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snod and snog
neat, handsome : as, snogly gear'd, handsomely dressed. N. SNOG-MALT, smooth, with few combs.
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to and again
backwards and forwards. York and Derb.
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act and intention
Must be united in admiralty law.
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bilge and chimb
See bouge and chine
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chine and chine
Casks stowed end to end.
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costs and damage
Demurrage is generally given against a captor for unjustifiable detention. Where English merchants p...
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cut and thrust
To give point with a sword after striking a slash.
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den and strond
A liberty for ships or vessels to run or come ashore. Edward I. granted this privilege to the barons...
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fast and loose
An uncertain and shuffling conduct.
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fifer and fidler
Two very important aids in eliciting exact discipline; for hoisting, warping, and heaving at the cap...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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full and by
Sailing close-hauled on a wind; when a ship is as close as she will lie to the wind, without sufferi...
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pudding and dolphin
A larger and lesser pad, made of ropes, and put round the masts under the lower yards.
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rank and file
This word includes corporals as well as privates, all below sergeants. (See file.)
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ribs and trucks
Used figuratively for fragments.
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round and grape
A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...
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rouse and bit
The order to turn out of the hammocks.
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soak and send!
The order to pass wet swabs along.
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stamp and go!
The order to step out at the capstan, or with hawsers, topsail-halliards, &c., generally to the fife...
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stock and fluke
The whole of anything.
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