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Dry
·superl Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
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High
·vi To <<Hie>>.
II. High ·noun The highest card dealt or drawn.
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high
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Dry dock
·- ·see under <<Dock>>.
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Dry goods
·- A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, ·etc., — in distinc...
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Dry nurse
·- A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand;
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Dry-beat
·vt To beat severely.
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Dry-boned
·adj Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.
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Dry-eyed
·adj Not having tears in the eyes.
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Dry-fisted
·adj <<Niggardly>>.
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Dry-rub
·vt To rub and cleanse without wetting.
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Dry-rubbed
·Impf & ·p.p. of Dry-rub.
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Dry-rubbing
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Dry-rub.
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Dry-shod
·adj Without wetting the feet.
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Dry-stone
·adj Constructed of uncemented stone.
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Kiln-dry
·vt To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.
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Smoke-dry
·vt To dry by or in smoke.
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dry bob
A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus.
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dry boots
A sly humorous fellow.
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dry-blowing
n.
a Western Australian term ingold-mining.
1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 5:
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drop-dry
Completely water-tight.
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dry dock
An artificial receptacle for examining and repairing vessels. (See graving-dock.)
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dry ducking
Suspending a person by a rope a few yards above the surface of the water.
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dry flogging
Punishing over the clothes of a culprit.
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dry gales
Those storms which are accompanied with a clear sky, as the northers of the Gulf of Mexico, the harm...
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dry-rot
A disease destructive of timber, occasioned by a fungus, the Merulius lachrymans, which softens wood...
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dry rowing
"Row dry." Not to dash the spray with the blade of the oar in the faces of those in the stern-sheets...
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row dry!
The order to those who row, not to splash water into the boat.
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And
·conj If; though. ·see <<An>>, ·conj.
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and
• The people who inhabited generally the whole of that country.
• In (Genesis 10:18-20) the seats o...
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thick-and-dry for weighing!
To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground.
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Breast-high
·adj High as the breast.
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High five
·add. ·- ·see Cinch (the game).
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High priest
·- A chief priest; ·esp., the head of the Jewish priesthood.
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High steel
·add. ·- Steel containing a high percentage of carbon; high-carbon steel.
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High-blown
·adj Inflated, as with conceit.
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High-bred
·adj Bred in high life; of pure blood.
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High-built
·adj Of lofty structure; tall.
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High-church
·adj Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or polic...
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High-churchism
·noun The principles of the high-church party.
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High-churchman
·noun One who holds high-church principles.
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High-churchmen
·pl of High-churchman.
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High-colored
·adj Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed.
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High-embowed
·adj Having lofty arches.
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High-fed
·adj Pampered; fed luxuriously.
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High-finished
·adj Finished with great care; polished.
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High-flown
·adj Elevated; proud.
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High-flushed
·adj <<Elated>>.
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High-go
·noun A spree; a revel.
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High-handed
·adj Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
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High-hearted
·adj Full of courage or nobleness; high-souled.
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High-hoe
·noun The European green woodpecker or yaffle.
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High-holder
·noun The flicker;
— called also high-hole.
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High-low
·noun A laced boot, ankle high.
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High-mettled
·adj Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed.
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High-minded
·adj Proud; arrogant.
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High-mindedness
·noun The quality of being highminded; nobleness; magnanimity.
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High-palmed
·adj Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.
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High-pressure
·adj Fig.: Urgent; intense; as, a high-pressure business or social life.
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High-priesthood
·noun The office, dignity, or position of a high priest.
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High-priestship
·noun High-priesthood.
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High-principled
·adj Possessed of noble or honorable principles.
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High-proof
·adj So as to stand any test.
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High-raised
·adj Elated with great ideas or hopes.
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High-reaching
·adj Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring.
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High-red
·adj Of a strong red color.
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High-seasoned
·adj Enriched with spice and condiments; hence, exciting; piquant.
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High-sighted
·adj Looking upward; supercilious.
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High-souled
·adj Having a high or noble spirit; honorable.
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High-sounding
·adj Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
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High-spirited
·adj Full of spirit or natural fire; haughty; courageous; impetuous; not brooking restraint or oppos...
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High-stepper
·noun A horse that moves with a high step or proud gait; hence, a person having a proud bearing.
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High-stomached
·adj Having a lofty spirit; haughty.
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High-strung
·adj Strung to a high pitch; spirited; sensitive; as, a high-strung horse.
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High-swelling
·adj Inflated; boastful.
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High-toned
·adj High in tone or sound.
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High-top
·noun A ship's masthead.
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High-wrought
·adj Wrought with fine art or skill; elaborate.
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Knee-high
·adj Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.
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Sky-high
·adv & ·adj Very high.
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High place
An eminence, natural or artificial, where worship by sacrifice or offerings was made (1 Kings 13:32;...
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High priest
Aaron was the first who was solemnly set apart to this office (Ex. 29:7; 30:23; Lev. 8:12). He wore ...
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High Holborn
West from Holborn Bars to Drury Lane, outside the City boundary (P.O. Directory).
First mention: "H...
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High Street
1) See Aldgate, Street?.
2) Thames Street seems to be so described in Anc. Deeds, A. 1779.
This ex...
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high eating
To eat skylarks in a garret.
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high flyers
Tories, Jacobites.
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high jinks
A gambler at dice, who, having a strong head, drinks to intoxicate his adversary, or pigeon.
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high living
To lodge in a garret, or cockloft
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high pad
A highwayman. CANT.
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high ropes
To be on the high ropes; to be in a passion.
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high shoon
or clouted shoon
A country clown.
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high water
It is high water, with him; he is full of money.
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high ropes
'Upon the high ropes;' i. e. elated; in high spirits.--Grose, Prov. Dict.
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high enough
Said in hoisting in goods, water, or masts.
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high flood
See flood.
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high latitudes
Those regions far removed from the equator towards the poles of the earth above the 50th degree.
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high tide
, or high water.
Figuratively, a full purse. Constance, in Shakspeare's King John, uses the term h...
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high-water
The greatest height of the flood-tide. (See tide.)
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high wind
See heavy gale.
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mast-high
A figurative expression of height.
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ropes, high
♦ On the high ropes. To be ceremonious, upstart, invested with brief authority.
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dry-bulb thermometer
The readings of this instrument, when compared with those of a wet-bulb thermometer, indicate the am...
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dry holy-stoning
See holy-stone.
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High-churchman-ship
·noun The state of being a high-churchman.
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Aldgate High Street
From Duke Street at 19 and 20 Aldgate to Middlesex Street at 146 Whitechapel High Street. In Portsok...
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High Street, Aldgate
See Aldgate High Street.
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High Timber Street
South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 42, and extending east and west between Broken Wharf and Bro...
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high-water mark
The line made by the water upon the shore, when at its greatest height; it is also designated the fl...
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High Places6813 Priest
The first distinct separation of Aaron to the office of the priesthood, which previously belonged to...
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Anchor and Harp Alley, Aldgate High Street
See Anchor and Hart Alley.
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Sun and Trumpet Alley, Aldgate High Street
See Sun Court.
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Castor and Pollux
·- ·see Saint Elmo's fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Half-and-half
·noun A mixture of two malt liquors, ·esp. porter and ale, in about equal parts.
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In and an
·adj & ·adv Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. ·see under <<Breeding>...
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In-and-in
·noun An old game played with four dice. In signified a doublet, or two dice alike; in-and-in, eithe...
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Lords and Ladies
·- The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), — those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with ...
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Make and break
·add. ·- Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
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Tom and Jerry
·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...
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Tops-and-bottoms
·noun ·pl Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, — used as food fo...
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
·add. ·- Two things practically alike;
— a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "O...
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Azur and Azzur
Helper.
1) The father of Hananiah, a false prophet (Jer. 28:1).
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By and by
Immediately (Matt. 13:21; R.V., "straightway;" Luke 21:9).
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Castor and Pollux
The "Dioscuri", two heroes of Greek and Roman mythology. Their figures were probably painted or scul...
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Jachin and Boaz
The names of two brazen columns set up in Solomon's temple (1 Kings 7:15-22). Each was eighteen cubi...
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Tryphena and Tryphosa
Two female Christians, active workers, whom Paul salutes in his epistle to the Romans (16:12).
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Bell and Crown
On the north side of Holborn, east of Furnival's Inn, in Farringdon Ward Without. The southern porti...
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(The) Cat and Fiddle
In the parish of St. Benet Sherehog, 1542 (L. and P. H. VIII. XVII. 393).
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(The) Crown and Cushion
See Pay Office.
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The Hand and Still
In Houndesditch at the boundary of Bishopsgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 94, and in 1755 ed.).
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Hoare and Co
Premises on the west side of Water Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Horwood, 1799).
Site occupied i...
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The Rose and Crown
A house so called in parish of St. Michael Crooked Lane demised to the use of the church and parish ...
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air and exercise
He has had air and exercise, i.e. he has been whipped at the cart's tail; or, as it is generally, th...
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bird and baby
The sign of the eagle and child.
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black and white
In writing. I have it in black and white; I have written evidence.
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bubble and squeak
Beef and cabbage fried together. It is so called from its bubbling up and squeaking whilst over the ...
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bulk and file
Two pickpockets; the bulk jostles the party to be robbed, and the file does the business.
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buttock and file
A common whore and a pick-pocket. Cant.
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buttock and twang, or down buttock and sham file
A common whore, but no pickpocket.
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buttock and tongue
A scolding wife.
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to chop and change
To exchange backwards and forwards. To chop, in the canting sense, means making dispatch, or hurryin...
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ducks and drakes
To make ducks and drakes: a school-boy's amusement, practised with pieces of tile, oyster-shells, or...
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gamon and patter
Common place talk of any profession; as the gamon and patter of a horse-dealer, sailor, &c.
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gog and magog
Two giants, whose effigies stand on each side of the clock in Guildhall, London; of whom there is a ...
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guts and garbage
A very fat man or woman. More guts than brains; a silly fellow. He has plenty of guts, but no bowels...
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here and thereian
One who has no settled place of residence.
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hide and seek
A childish game. He plays at hide and seek; a saying of one who is in fear of being arrested for deb...
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inside and outside
The inside of a **** and the outside of a gaol.
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milk and water
Both ends of the busk.
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monks and friars
Terms used by printers: monks are sheets where the letters are blotted, or printed too black; friars...
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orthodoxy and heterodoxy
Somebody explained these terms by saying, the first was a man who had a doxy of his own, the second ...
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pothooks and hangeks
A scrawl, bad writing.
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quick and nimble
More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...
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quirks and quillets
Tricks and devices. Quirks in law; subtle distinctions and evasions.
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roaratorios and uproars
Oratorios and operas.
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roast and boiled
A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast an...
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six and tips
Whisky and small beer. IRISH.
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sixes and sevens
Left at sixes and sevens: i.e. in confusion; commonly said of a room where the furniture, &c. is sca...
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tarring and feathering
A punishment lately infliced by the good people of Boston on any person convicted, or suspected, of ...
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chock-and-log
n. and adj.
a particularkind of fence much used on Australian stations. The Chock is a thick short ...
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tagrag-and-bobtail
n.
a species of sea-weed.See quotation.
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wattle-and-dab
a rough mode of architecture, verycommon in Australia at an early date. The phrase and itsmeaning ar...
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by fits and starts
At short and sudden intervals interruptedly.
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to cut and run
To be off; to be gone.--Holloway's Prov. Dictionary.
Originally a nautical term. To cut the cable o...
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to rake and scrape
To collect.
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back and forth
Backwards and forwards, applied to a person in walking, as, "He was walking back and forth." A commo...
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black and blue
The color of a bruise; a familiar expression for a bruise, here and in England.
Mistress Ford, good...
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black and white
To put a thing into black and white, is, to commit it to writing. In use in Scotland.--Jamieson.
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chinking and daubing
The process of filling with clay the interstices between the logs of houses in the new countries. In...
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cut and dried
Ready made.
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heads and plucks
the refuse of timber trees, as boughs, roots, &c. Derb.
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helm and hawn
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb.
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hither and you
here and there, backwards and forwards. N.
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marry and shall
i. e. that I will. North.
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milt and melt
the soft roe of a fish. York.
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money and gold
silver and gold. York.
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peas and sport
See scadding of peas.
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rid and ridden
dispatch and dispatched : It rids well : it goes on fast. It will soon be ridden, i. e. got rid of. ...
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runches and runchballs
carlock, when dried and withered. N.
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saugh and sauf
sallow. N.
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snod and snog
neat, handsome : as, snogly gear'd, handsomely dressed. N. SNOG-MALT, smooth, with few combs.
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to and again
backwards and forwards. York and Derb.
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act and intention
Must be united in admiralty law.
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costs and damage
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cut and thrust
To give point with a sword after striking a slash.
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den and strond
A liberty for ships or vessels to run or come ashore. Edward I. granted this privilege to the barons...
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fast and loose
An uncertain and shuffling conduct.
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fifer and fidler
Two very important aids in eliciting exact discipline; for hoisting, warping, and heaving at the cap...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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fore-and-aft
From head to stern throughout the ship's whole length, or from end to end; it also implies in a line...
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fore-and-after
A cocked hat worn with the peak in front instead of athwart. Also, a very usual term for a schooner ...
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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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pudding and dolphin
A larger and lesser pad, made of ropes, and put round the masts under the lower yards.
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rank and file
This word includes corporals as well as privates, all below sergeants. (See file.)
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ribs and trucks
Used figuratively for fragments.
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round and grape
A phrase used when a gun is charged at close quarters with round shot, grape, and canister; termed a...
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rouse and bit
The order to turn out of the hammocks.
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soak and send!
The order to pass wet swabs along.
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stamp and go!
The order to step out at the capstan, or with hawsers, topsail-halliards, &c., generally to the fife...
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stock and fluke
The whole of anything.
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