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·adv Close or near.
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hard
Stale beer, nearly sour, is said to be hard. Hard also means severe: as, hard fate, a hard master.
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hard
A road-path made through mud for landing at. (See ard.)
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hard-a-lee
The situation of the tiller when it brings the rudder hard over to windward. Strictly speaking, it o...
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hard-a-starboard
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the port-side of the stern-post, whi...
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hard-a-weather!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder on the lee-side of the stern-post, whichever...
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·noun A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.
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port
An old Anglo-Saxon word still in full use. It strictly means a place of resort for vessels, adjacent...
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bar of a port
or bar of a harbour
An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...
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pushing for a port
Carrying all sail to arrive quickly.
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riding a port-last
With lower yards on the gunwales.
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Hard grass
·- A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the spe...
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Hard steel
·add. ·- Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) ca...
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Hard-favored
·adj Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.
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Hard-featured
·adj Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
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Hard-fisted
·adj Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.
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Hard-fought
(·adv Vigorously) contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
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Hard-handed
·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
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Hard-headed
·adj Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
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Hard-hearted
·adj Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
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Hard-labored
·adj Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
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Hard-mouthed
·adj Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.
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Hard-shell
·adj Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
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Hard-tack
·noun A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
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Hard-visaged
·adj Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
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die hard
To die hard, is to shew no signs of fear or contrition at the gallows; not to whiddle or squeak. Thi...
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hard cash
Silver or gold coin.
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hard drinker
One who drinks to excess; a drunkard.
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hard money
A common term for silver and gold, in contradistinction from paper money.
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hard pushed
To be bard pressed; to be in a difficulty; and especially, as a mercantile phrase, to be hard presse...
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hard run
To be hard pressed; and especially to be in want of money. The same as hard pushed.
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blowing hard
Said of the wind when it is strong and steady.
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hard bargain
A useless fellow; a skulker.
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hard fish
A term indiscriminately applied to cod, ling, haddock, torsk, &c., salted and dried.
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hard gale
When the violence of the wind reduces a ship to be under her storm staysails, No. 10 force.
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hard-head
The Clupea menhaden, or Alosa tyrannus, an oily fish taken in immense quantities on the American coa...
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hard-horse
A tyrannical officer.
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hard up
The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...
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A, a, indecl. n. (sometimes joined with littera), the first letter of the Latin alphabet, correspond...
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a
a, prep.=ab, v. ab.
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A. a. as an abbreviation, 1 for the praenomen Aulus.
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·- Of.
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·- A registry mark given by underwriters (as at Lloyd's) to ships in first-class condition. Inferior...
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·- A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on ...
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Alpha, the first letter of the Greek alphabet, as Omega is the last. These letters occur in the text...
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a
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Half-port
·noun One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
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Port-royalist
·noun One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it wa...
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Three-port
·add. ·adj Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine i...
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Two-port
·add. ·adj Having two ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in ...
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bridle-port
A square port in the bows of a ship, for taking in mooring bridles. They are also used for guns remo...
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cinque-port
A kind of fishing-net, having five entrances.
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closed port
One interdicted.
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convenient port
A general law-term in cases of capture, within a certain latitude of discretion; a place where a ves...
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free port
Ports open to all comers free of entry-dues, as places of call, not delivery.
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helm-port
The round hole or cavity in a ship's counter, through which the head of the rudder passes into the t...
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light-port
A scuttle made for showing a light through. Also, a port in timber ships kept open until brought dee...
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port arms!
The military word of command to bring the fire-lock across the front of the body, muzzle slanting up...
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port-bars
Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...
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port-charges
, or harbour-dues.
Charges levied on vessels resorting to a port.
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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...
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port-flange
In ship-carpentry, is a batten of wood fixed on the ship's side over a port, to prevent water or dir...
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port-glaive
A sword-bearer.
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port-last
, or portoise.
Synonymous with gunwale.
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port-men
A name in old times for the inhabitants of the Cinque Ports; the burgesses of Ipswich are also so ca...
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port-mote
A court held in haven towns or ports.
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port-nails
These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...
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port-pendants
Ropes spliced into rings on the outside of the port-lids, and rove through leaden pipes in the ship'...
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port-piece
An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets.
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port-reeve
A magistrate of certain sea-port towns in olden times.
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port-ropes
Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended.
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port-sale
A public sale of fish on its arrival in the harbour.
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port-sashes
Half-ports fitted with glass for the admission of light into cabins.
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port-shackles
The rings to the ports.
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port-sills
In ship-building, pieces of timber put horizontally between the framing to form the top and bottom o...
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port-tackles
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...
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raft-port
A large square hole, framed and cut through the buttocks of some ships, immediately under the counte...
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sally-port
An opening cut in the glacis of a place to afford free egress to the troops in case of a sortie. Als...
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sea-port
A haven near the sea, not situated up a river.
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hard at his a-se
Close after him.
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any port in a storm
signifies contentment with whatever may betide.
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sole of a gun-port
The lower part of it, more properly called port-sill.
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hard and fast
Said of a ship on shore.
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king's hard bargain
A useless fellow, who is not worth his hire.
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Port-Arthur Plum
See plum, native.
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Port-Jackson Fig
n. See fig-tree.
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Port-Jackson Shark
Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder.
1882. Rev. J....
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Port-Jackson Thrush
n.
the best known birdamong the Australian Shrike-thrushes (q.v.), Colluricincla harmonica, Lath.; ...
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Port-Macquarie Pine
See pine.
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port egmont fowls
See egmont
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helm-port transom
The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...
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port-piece chamber
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech.
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A cappella
·- A time indication, equivalent to alla breve.
II. A cappella ·- In church or chapel style;
— sai...
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A cheval
·add. ·- Astride; with a part on each side;
— used specif. in designating the position of an army w...
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A fortiori
·- With stronger reason.
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A posteriori
·- Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; i...
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A priori
·- Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to...
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A-mornings
·adv In the morning; every morning.
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A-sea
·adv On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.
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A-tiptoe
·adv On tiptoe; eagerly expecting.
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Due-a
·noun ·see Do-a.
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Pi-a
·add. ·noun The <<Pineapple>>.
II. Pi-a ·add. ·noun Pi-a cloth or the fiber of which it is made.
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Vicu-a
·noun ·Alt. of <<Vicugna>>.
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a-many
a great number, pronounced Meyny. North.
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a-scat
broken like an egg. Dev.
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a-slat
crack'd like an earthen vessel. Dev.
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a-burton
The situation of casks when they are stowed in the hold athwart ship, or in a line with the beam.
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a-cockbill
(see cock-bill). The anchor hangs by its ring at the cat-head, in a position for dropping.
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a-hull
A ship under bare poles and her helm a-lee, driving from wind and sea, stern foremost. Also a ship d...
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a-lee
The contrary of a-weather: the position of the helm when its tiller is borne over to the lee-side of...
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a-poise
Said of a vessel properly trimmed.
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a-starboard
The opposite to a-port.
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a-stay
Said of the anchor when, in heaving in, the cable forms such an angle with the surface as to appear ...
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a-trip
The anchor is a-trip, or a-weigh, when the purchase has just made it break ground, or raised it clea...
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a-wash
Reefs even with the surface. The anchor just rising to the water's edge, in heaving up.
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a-weather
The position of the helm when its tiller is moved to the windward side of the ship, in the direction...
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a-weigh
The anchor being a-trip, or after breaking out of the ground.
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a hard row to hoe
A metaphor derived from hoeing corn, meaning a difficult matter or job to accomplish.
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captain of the port
The captain of the port is probably better explained by referring to that situation at Gibraltar. He...
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put into port, to
To enter an intermediate or any port in the course of a voyage, usually from stress of weather.
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running-down the port
A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...
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mine a-se on a bandbox
An answer to the offer of any thing inadequate to the purpose for which it is wanted, just as a band...
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A B C
·- The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance.
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All-a-mort
·adj ·see <<Alamort>>.
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Black-a-vised
·adj Dark-visaged; swart.
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Bric-a brac
·noun Miscellaneous curiosities and works of decorative art, considered collectively.
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Char-a-bancs
·noun A long, light, open vehicle, with benches or seats running lengthwise.
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Chars-a-banc
·pl of Char-a-bancs.
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Cock-a-hoop
·adj Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
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Cornet-a-piston
·noun A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sli...
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Cornets-a-piston
·pl of Cornet-a-piston.
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Dos-a-dos
·add. ·noun A sofa, open carriage, or the like, so constructed that the occupants sit back to back.
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Flute a bec
·- A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held li...
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Jack-a-dandy
·noun A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.
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Jack-a-lent
·noun A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.
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Penny-a-liner
·noun One who furnishes matter to public journals at so much a line; a poor writer for hire; a hack ...
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Pi-a cloth
·add. ·- A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, ·etc., woven from the fiber obtained f...
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Tete-a-tete
·adj Private; confidential; familiar.
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Vis-a-vis
·adv Face to face.
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Wait-a-bit
·add. ·noun The prickly ash.
II. Wait-a-bit ·add. ·noun The grapple plant.
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Wait-a-while
·add. ·noun = Wait-a-bit.
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Adam, a type
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all-a-mort
Struck dumb, confounded. What, sweet one, all-a-mort? SHAKESPEARE.
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black a-se
A copper or kettle. The pot calls the kettle black a-se. Cant.
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to run a buck
To poll a bad vote at an election.--IRISH TERM.
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chick-a-biddy
A chicken, so called to and by little children.
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cock-a-whoop
Elevated, in high-spirits, transported with joy.
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to couch a hogshead
To lie down to sleep. CANT.
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to fight a crib
To make a sham fight. BEAR GARDEN TERM.
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cure a-se
A dyachilon plaister, applied to the parts galled by riding.
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dram-a-tick
A dram served upon credit.
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drop a cog
To let fall, with design, a piece of gold or silver, in order to draw in and cheat the person who se...
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firing a gun
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
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to fire a slug
To drink a dram.
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foxing a boot
Mending the foot by capping it.
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mumble a sparrow
A cruel sport practised at wakes and fairs, in the following manner: A cock sparrow whose wings are ...
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pit-a-pat
The palpitation of the heart: as, my heart went pit-a-pat. Pintledy-pantledy; the same.
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to ring a peal
To scold; chiefly applied to women. His wife rung him a fine peal!
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slug-a-bed
A drone, one that cannot rise in the morning.
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squint-a-pipes
A squinting man or woman; said to be born in the middle of the week, and looking both ways for Sunda...
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wear a--e
A one-horse chaise.
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bull-a-bull
or Bullybul
n.
a child'scorruption of the Maori word Poroporo (q.v.), aflowering shrub of New Zeal...
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cock-a-bully
n. a popular name for the NewZealand fish Galaxias fasciatus, Gray, a corruption ofits Maori name Ko...
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make a light
expressive pigeon-English. An aboriginal'sphrase for to look for, to find. «You been make a lightyar...
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mark, a good
Australian slang.
1845. R. Howitt, `Australia,' p. 233:
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stay-a-while
n.
a tangled bush; sometimescalled Wait-a-while (q.v.).
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wait-a-while
n.
also called Stay-a-while: a thicket tree.
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to bear a hand
A seaman's phrase. To be ready ; to go to work; to assist.
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to catch a tartar
To attack one of superior strength or abilities. This saying originated from the story of an Irish s...
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to cut a caper
(Italian, tagliar le capriole.) The act of dancing in a frolicksome manner.--Todd. We use it also in...
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to cut a dash
In modern colloquial speech, to make a great show; to make a figure.--Johnson. A fashionable or gail...
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to cut a figure
To make an appearance, either good or bad.
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to cut a swathe
The same as to cut a dash.
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to deacon a calf
is to knock it in the head as soon as it is born.--Connecticut.
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to drive a bargain
To make a bargain. A common colloquial expression, as old as the language.
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to girdle a tree
In America, to make a circular incision, like a belt, through the bark and alburnum of a tree to kil...
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to have a say
To express an opinion. A phrase in vulgar use.
I picked out "Henry Clay" for my baby's name, but t...
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to make a raise
A vulgar expression, meaning to raise; procure; obtain.
I made a raise of a horse and saw, after be...
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to raise a bead
This expression is used at the West, and means to bring to a head, to make succeed. The figure is ta...
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to sky a copper
To toss up a cent.
Didge said he was like skying a copper--head or tail.--Crockett, Tour.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to trig a wheel
To stop a wheel so as to prevent its going backwards or forwards.--Bailey. Still used in New England...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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jacket-a-wad
an ignis fatuus. Exm.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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scotch a wheel
to stop it from going backward. Lane.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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well-a-day!
alas! Various.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cutting a feather
It is common when a ship has too broad a bow to say, "She will not cut a feather," meaning that she ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dick-a-dilver
A name for the periwinkle on our eastern coasts.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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disparting a gun
To bring the line of sight and line of metal to be parallel by setting up a mark on the muzzle-ring ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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docking a ship
The act of drawing her into dock, and placing her properly on blocks, in order to give her the requi...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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doubling a cape
In navigation, is to sail round or pass beyond it, so that the point of land separates the ship from...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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driving a charge
Ramming home the loading of a piece of ordnance.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fall! a fall!
The cry to denote that the harpoon has been effectively delivered into the body of a whale.
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frapping a ship
The act of passing four or five turns of a large cable-laid rope round a ship's hull when it is appr...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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get-a-pull
The order to haul in more of a rope or tackle.
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give a spell
To intermit or relieve work. (See spell.)
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The Sailor's Word-Book