ground-swell

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• Swell

  ·noun Gradual increase. II. Swell ·noun A showy, dashing person; a dandy. III. Swell ·vi To be ela...

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• swell

  A gentleman. A well-dressed map. The flashman bounced the swell of all his blunt; the girl's bully f...

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• swell

  A rolling wave which seldom breaks unless it meets resistance, generally denoting a continuous heavi...

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• Ground

  ·noun The pit of a theater. II. Ground ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Grind. III. Ground ·vt To lay, set, or r...

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• cross-swell

  This is similar to a cross-sea, except that it undulates without breaking violently. ...

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• rolling-swell

  That heaving of the sea where the waves are very distant, forming deep troughs between. ...

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• Burying ground

  ·- ·Alt. of Burying place. ...

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• Middle-ground

  ·noun That part of a picture between the foreground and the background. ...

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• Teeing ground

  ·add. ·- The space from within which the ball must be struck in beginning the play for each hole. ...

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• Winter-ground

  ·vt To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the ro...

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• Fallow-ground

  The expression, "Break up your fallow ground" (Hos. 10:12; Jer. 4:3) means, "Do not sow your seed am...

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• Parched ground

  (Isa. 35:7), Heb. sharab, a "mirage", a phenomenon caused by the refraction of the rays of the sun o...

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• Artillery Ground

  See Old Artillery Ground. ...

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• Ground Rentes

  Tenements so called in High Holborn 1564 (Lond. I. p.m. II 142, 96). Not further identified. ...

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• ground sweat

  A grave. ...

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• ground squirrel

  A hog, or pig. SEA TERM. ...

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• ground-berry

  i.q. cranberry (q.v.).: See cranberry, native ...

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• ground-bird

  n. name given in Australia to anybird of the genus Cinclosoma. The species are – – Chestnut-backed ...

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• ground-dove

  n. 1) Tasmanian namefor the Spotted Ground-bird (q.v.). 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol....

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• ground-lark

  n. 1) In New Zealand, a bird alsocalled by the Maori names, Pihoihoi and Hioi. 1888. W. L. Buller,...

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• ground-parrakeet

  n. See parrakeet and pezoporus. ...

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• ground-parrot

  n. 1) The bird Psittacuspulchellus, Shaw. For the Ground Parrot of New Zealand,see Kakapo. 1793. G...

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• ground-thrush

  n. name of birds found all overthe world. The Australian species are – – Geocincla lunulata, Lath. ...

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• ground-sill

  the threshold of a door. C. Ground ivy. ...

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

• hover ground

  light ground. S. ...

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• vantage-ground

  See advantage ...

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• break-ground

  Beginning to weigh, or to lift the anchor from the bottom. On shore it means to begin the works for ...

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• fishing-ground

  Any bank or shoal frequented by fish. ...

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• foul ground

  Synonymous with foul bottom. ...

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• ground, to

  To take the bottom or shore; to be run aground through ignorance, violence, or accident. ♦ To stri...

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• ground-bait

  , or groundling. A loach or loche. ...

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• ground-gru

  See anchor-ice. ...

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• ground-gudgeon

  A little fish, the Cobitis barbatula. ...

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• ground-ice

  See anchor-ice. ...

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• ground-plot

  See ichnography. ...

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• ground-sea

  The West Indian name for the swell called rollers, or in Jamaica the north sea. It occurs in a calm,...

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• ground-strake

  A name sometimes used for garboard-strake. ...

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• ground-tackle

  A general name given to all sorts of ropes and furniture which belong to the anchors, or which are e...

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• ground-tier

  The lowest water-casks in the hold before the introduction of iron tanks. It also implies anything e...

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• ground-timbers

  Those which lie on the keel, and are fastened to it with bolts through the kelson. ...

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• ground-ways

  The large blocks and thick planks which support the cradle on which a ship is launched. Also, the fo...

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• losing ground

  Dropping to leeward while working; the driftage. ...

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• Bethlem Burying Ground

  On the east side of Moorfields, extending east to New Broad Street, on the western boundary of Bisho...

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• New Artillery Ground

  In Moorfields. So named to distinguish it from the Old Ground near St. Mary Spittel, where formerly ...

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• Old Artillery Ground

  Extends from Middlesex Street south to Spital Square north, east of Bishopsgate Street, outside the ...

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• (St.) Sepulchre's Burying Ground

  On the northern boundary of Farringdon Ward Without, north of Smithfield Market, east of Durham Yard...

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• go-by-ground

  a little go-by-ground ; a diminutive person. ...

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

• go by the ground

  A little short person, man or woman. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose