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Harry
·vi To make a predatory incursion; to plunder or lay waste. II. Harry ·vt To <<Strip>>; to lay wast...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
harry
A country fellow. CANT.--Old Harry; the Devil. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
harry
to teaze. HARRIED, weary. Lane. To plunder. Northumb. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel
(fl. 1470-1492) Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skil...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
country harry
A waggoner. CANT. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
old harry
A composition used by vintners to adulterate their wines; also the nick-name for the devil. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
harry-gawd
a rigsby, a wild child. N ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
king harry
a goldfinch. Norf. and SufF. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
meg-harry
a hoyden girl ; a torn-boy. Lane. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
harry-net
A net with such small meshes, and so formed, as to take even the young and small fish. ...

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Battersby, Harry Francis Prevost ("Francis Prevost")
Poet, novelist, and war correspondent. Poems, Melilot (1886), Fires of Greenwood (1887). Novels, Rus...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Forman, Harry Buxton
C.B. (b. 1842) Biographer, etc. Our Living Poets (1871), ed. Works of Shelley (1876-80), Letters o...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
Harry Barton's Alley
In Coleman Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 59). John Barton and Agnes his wife are mentioned by S...

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.