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Hoe
·vi To use a hoe; to labor with a hoe. II. Hoe ·noun The horned or piked dogfish. ·see <<Dogfish>>....

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hoe
See howe. ...

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Mother
·noun An old woman or matron. II. Mother ·noun Hysterical passion; hysteria. III. Mother ·vi To be...

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mother
or the mother A bawd. Mother abbess: the same. Mother midnight; a midwife. Mother in law's bit; a s...

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Mother
The superiority of the Hebrew over all contemporaneous systems of legislation and of morals is stron...

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High-hoe
·noun The European green woodpecker or yaffle. ...

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Prong-hoe
·noun A hoe with prongs to break the earth. ...

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hoe-cake
A cake of Indian meal, baked before the fire. In the interior parts of the country, where kitchen ut...

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hoe-tusk
♦ Squalus mustela, smooth hound-fish of the Shetlanders. ...

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Eel-mother
·noun The <<Eelpout>>. ...

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Mother-naked
·adj Naked as when born. ...

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pheasant's mother
n. an old name of an Australian bird. See orthonyx. 1860. G. Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,...

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el-mother
a step-mother. N. ...

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Mother-in-law
·noun The mother of one's husband or wife. ...

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Mother-of-pearl
·noun The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, ·esp. of pearl oysters, river musse...

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Mother-of-thyme
·noun An aromatic plant (Thymus Serphyllum); — called also wild thyme. ...

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mother cary's chicken
The stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica. ...

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mother cary's goose
The name given by Captain Cook's people to an oceanic brown bird, Procellaria gigantea, which Pernet...

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mother-of-pearl
The iridescent nacreous inner layer of several species of shells, especially the "pearl-oyster" (Mel...

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a hard row to hoe
A metaphor derived from hoeing corn, meaning a difficult matter or job to accomplish. Gentlemen, I ...

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mother of all saints
The Monosyllable. ...

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mother of all souls
The same. IRISH. ...

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mother of st. patrick
The same. IRISH. ...

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mother of the maids
A bawd. ...

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Mary, Mother Of Mark
(Colossians 4:10) was sister to Barnabas. (Acts 4:36; 12:15) She was among the earliest disciples, a...

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