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Pay
·noun Satisfaction; content.
II. Pay ·vt To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pa...
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to pay
To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, a...
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pay
A buccaneering principle of hire, under the notion of plunder and sharing in prizes, was, no purchas...
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Full
(·comp) Sated; surfeited.
II. Full (·comp) Filled with emotions.
III. Full (·comp) Impregnated; ma...
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full
The state of the sails when the wind fills them so as to carry the vessel ahead.
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Dead-pay
·noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
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Pay Cerps
·add. ·- A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, payma...
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Pay dirt
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pay rock.
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Pay rock
·add. ·- Earth, rock, ·etc., which yields a profit to the miner.
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Pay streak
·add. ·- A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.
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Pay Office
On the west side of Broad Street, at the corner of Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M...
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store pay
Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...
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dead-pay
That given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears, as was formerly pra...
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growing pay
That which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect.
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pay, to
[from Fr. poix, pitch]. To pay a seam is to pour hot pitch and tar into it after caulking, to defend...
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pay away
The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope.
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retired pay
A graduated pension for retired officers; but the term is nearly synonymous with half pay.
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sea-pay
That due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship.
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Chock-full
·adj Quite full; choke-full.
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Choke-full
·adj Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.
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Full house
·add. ·- A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a...
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Full-blooded
·adj Having a full supply of blood.
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Full-bloomed
·adj Like a perfect blossom.
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Full-blown
·adj Fully distended with wind, as a sail.
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Full-bottomed
·adj Of great capacity below the water line.
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Full-butt
·adv With direct and violentop position; with sudden collision.
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Full-drive
·adv With full speed.
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Full-formed
·adj Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.
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Full-grown
·adj Having reached the limits of growth; mature.
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Full-hearted
·adj Full of courage or confidence.
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Full-hot
·adj Very fiery.
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Full-manned
·adj Completely furnished wiith men, as a ship.
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Full-orbed
·adj Having the orb or disk complete or fully illuminated; like the full moon.
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Full-sailed
·adj Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation.
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Full-winged
·adj Beady for flight; eager.
II. Full-winged ·adj Having large and strong or complete wings.
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full march
The Scotch greys are in full march by the crown office; the lice are crawling down his head.
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chock-full
Entirely full; see also Chuck-full.
I'm chock-full of genius and running over, said Pigwiggin. Neal...
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chuck-full
Entirely full. Common in familiar language as well as chock-full, which see for other examples.
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full butt
With sudden collision. The figure is taken from the violent encounter of animals, such as rams or go...
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full chisel
At full speed. A modern New England vulgarism.
Oh yes, sir, I'll get you my master's seal in a minu...
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full drive
At full speed. A very common and very old phrase.
This bargain is full-drive, for we ben knit;
Ye ...
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full split
With the greatest violence and impetuosity.--Craven Glossary. In common use in the United States in ...
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full swing
Full sway; complete control.
If the Loco-Focos have full swing, they will involve the country in wa...
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full-stated
spoken of a leasehold estate that has three lives subsisting on it. Exm.
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goping-full
as much as you can hold in your hand. North. A GOPPEN-FULL, a large nandfull. South.
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a gopen-full
as much of any thing as can be held in both hands. N.
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chock-full
, chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c.
Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...
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choke-full
Entirely full; top full.
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clean-full
Keeping the sail full, bellying, off the wind.
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full bastion
In fortification, is a bastion whereof the terreplein, or terrace in rear of the parapet, is extende...
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full-bottomed
An epithet to signify such vessels as are designed to carry large cargoes.
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full drive
Fully direct; impetuous violence.
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full due
For good; for ever; complete; belay.
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full feather
Attired in best dress or full uniform.
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full man
A rating in coasters for one receiving whole pay, as being competent to all his duties; able seaman....
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full moon
When her whole illuminated surface is turned towards us; she is then in opposition, or diametrically...
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full retreat
When an army, or any body of men, retire with all expedition before a conquering enemy.
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full revetment
In fortification, that form of retaining wall which is carried right up to the top of the mass retai...
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full sails
The sails well set, and filled by the wind.
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full speed!
A self-explanatory order to the engineer of a steamer to get his engine into full play.
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full spread
All sail set.
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full swing
Having full power delegated; complete control.
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hawse-full
Riding hawse-full; pitching bows under.
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rap-full
Applies to a ship on a wind, when "keep her rap-full!" means, do not come too close to the wind, or ...
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pay round, to
To turn the ship's head.
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pinch-gut pay
The short allowance money.
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full of emptiness
Jocular term for empty.
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full up of
adj. (slang)
sick and tired of.«Full on,» and «full of,» are other forms.
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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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full for stays!
The order to keep the sails full to preserve the velocity, assisting the action of the rudder in tac...
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pay a yard, to
See pay a mast, to
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pay a mast, to
or pay a yard, to
To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...
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keeping full for stays
A necessary precaution to give the sails full force, in aid of the rudder when going about.
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pay a vessel's bottom, to
To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.)
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pay-serjeant, in the army
A steady non-commissioned officer, selected by the captain of each company, to pay the subsistence d...
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pay of the royal navy
is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...
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devil to pay and no pitch hot
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...
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