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• Badge

  ·vt To mark or distinguish with a badge. II. Badge ·noun Something characteristic; a mark; a token....

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• Conduct

  ·noun Convoy; escort; guard; guide. II. Conduct ·noun Skillful guidance or management; generalship....

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• badge

  A term used for one burned in the hand. He has got his badge, and piked; he was burned in the hand, ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to conduct

  instead of 'to conduct oneself;' leaving out the reflexive pronoun. This offensive barbarism is happ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• badge

  Quarter badges. False quarter-galleries in imitation of frigate-built ships. Also, in naval architec...

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• Good

  ·vt To make good; to turn to good. II. Good ·superl Not lacking or deficient; full; complete. III....

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• Safe-conduct

  ·noun That which gives a safe passage. II. Safe-conduct ·vt To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct...

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• badge-coves

  Parish Pensioners. Cant. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• badge, seaman's

  See good-conduct badge. ...

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• conduct-list

  A roll to accompany the tickets of all persons sent to a hospital for medical treatment; it details ...

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• conduct-money

  A sum advanced to defray the travelling expenses of volunteers, and of soldiers and sailors to their...

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• quarter-badge

  Artificial galleries; a carved ornament near the stern of those vessels which have no quarter-galler...

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• safe-conduct

  A security passport granted to an enemy for his safe entry and passage through the realm. ...

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• Good now

  ·- An exclamation of wonder, surprise, or entreaty. ...

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• Good-by

  (·noun / ·interj) ·Alt. of Good-bye. ...

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• Good-bye

  (·noun / ·interj) Farewell; a form of address used at parting. ·see the last Note under By, ·prep ...

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• Good-den

  ·interj A form of salutation. ...

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• Good-fellowship

  ·noun Agreeable companionship; companionableness. ...

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• Good-humored

  ·adj Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. ·see Good-natured. ...

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• Good-humoredly

  ·adv With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner. ...

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• Good-looking

  ·adj <<Handsome>>. ...

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• Good-natured

  ·adj Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked. ...

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• Good-naturedly

  ·adv With maldness of temper. ...

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• Good-tempered

  ·adj Having a good temper; not easily vexed. ·see Good-natured. ...

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• Works, Good

  The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity o...

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• good man

  A word of various imports, according to the place where it is spoken: in the city it means a rich ma...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• good woman

  A nondescript, represented on a famous sign in St. Giles's, in the form of a common woman. but witho...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• good luck

  To tread in a surreverence, to be bewrayed: an allusion to the proverb, Sh-tt-n luck is good luck. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• good stroke

  Used in the sense of considerable; as, 'a good stroke of business.'--Brockett's North County Words. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• beer-good

  yest. Norf. and Suff. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• gods-good

  yeast. Norf. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• good-day

  a holiday. Staffordsh. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• good to

  good for. He's nought good to : spoken of a good-for-nothing man. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• prime good

  excellent. North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• good reward

  a ruddy countenance. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• good men

  The designation of the able, hard-working, and willing seamen. ...

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• good shoaling

  An approach to the shore by very gradual soundings. ...

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• mark, a good

  Australian slang. 1845. R. Howitt, `Australia,' p. 233: «I wondered often what was the meaning of ...

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

• by good rights

  By right, by strict justice; as, "By good rights Mr. Clay ought to be President of the United States...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• thorough-good-natured wench

  One who being asked to sit down, will lie down. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• as good as go

  In the phrase, I'd as good's go to New York, instead of "I might as well go to New York." "I'd as go...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• good-at-all-points

  Practical in every particular. ...

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• hold on, good sticks!

  An apostrophe often made when the masts complain in a fresh squall, or are over-pressed, and it is u...

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• keeping a good offing

  To keep well off shore while under sail, so as to be clear of danger should the wind suddenly shift ...

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• make a good board

  See board. ...

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• hold a good wind, to

  To have weatherly qualities. ...

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• king's bargain: good or bad

  ; said of a seaman according to his activity and merit, or sloth and demerit. ...

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• keep a good hold of the land

  Is to hug it as near as it can safely be done. ...

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• Tree of the knowledge of good and evil

  Stood in the midst of the garden of Eden, beside the tree of life (Gen. 2, 3). Adam and Eve were for...

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