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• Coast

  ·vt The side of a thing. II. Coast ·noun To sail by or near the shore. III. Coast ·vt The seashore...

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• coast

  v. to loaf about from station tostation. 1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Squatter's Dream,' xxv. 295: «I ...

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• coast

  The sea-shore and the adjoining country; in fact, the sea-front of the land. (See shore.) ...

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• Coast

  border, with no more reference to lands bordering on the sea than to any other bordering lands. ...

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• Foul

  ·superl Ugly; homely; poor. II. Foul ·noun ·see Foul ball, under Foul, ·adj. III. Foul ·noun A <<B...

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• foul

  To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him. ...

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• foul

  ugly. Derb. ...

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• foul

  Generally used in opposition to clear, and implies entangled, embarrassed, or contrary to: as "a shi...

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• coast-blockade

  A body of men formerly under the jurisdiction of the Customs, termed Preventive Service, offering a ...

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• coast-waiter

  Custom-house superintendents of the landing and shipping of goods coastways. ...

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• coast-warning

  Synonymous with storm-signal; formerly fire-beacons were used to give warning of the approach of an ...

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• sea-coast

  , or sea-bord. The shore of any country, or that part which is washed by the sea. ...

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• Foul-mouthed

  ·adj Using language scurrilous, opprobrious, obscene, or profane; abusive. ...

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• Foul-spoken

  ·adj Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language. ...

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• foul-mouthed

  Abusive. ...

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• foul air

  May be generated by circumstances beyond control: decomposing fungi, timber injected with coal tar, ...

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• foul anchor

  An anchor is said to be foul, or fouled, either when it hooks some impediment under water, or when t...

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• foul berth

  When a ship anchors in the hawse of another she gives the latter a foul berth; or she may anchor on ...

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• foul bill

  See bill of health. ...

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• foul bottom

  A ship to which sea-weed, shells, or other encumbrances adhere. Also, the bottom of the sea if rocky...

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• foul fish

  Applied to salmon in the spawning state, or such as have not for the current year made their way to ...

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• foul ground

  Synonymous with foul bottom. ...

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• foul hawse

  When a vessel is riding with two anchors out, and the cables are crossed round each other outside th...

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• foul rope

  A rope entangled or unfit for immediate use. ...

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• foul weather

  That which reduces a ship to snug-sail. ...

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• foul wind

  That which prevents a ship from laying her course. ...

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• running foul

  A vessel, by accident or bad steerage, falling in contact with another under sail. (See athwart // h...

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• laburnum, sea-coast

  n. also called GoldenChain, Sophora tomentosa, Linn., N.O.Leguminosae; a tall, hoary shrub. ...

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• foul-weather breeder

  A name given to the Gulf Stream from such a volume of warm water occasioning great perturbations in ...

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• foul-weather flag

  Denotes danger for boats leaving the shore; watermen's fares increase with these signals. ...

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• Coast and Geodetic Survey

  ·add. ·- A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic surv...

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• curve of the coast

  When the shore alternately recedes and projects gradually, so as to trend towards a curve shape. ...

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• fall foul of, to

  To reprimand severely. (See fall aboard of, to.) ...

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• run down a coast, to

  To sail along it, keeping parallel to or skirting its dangers. ...

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