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• Home

  ·adv Close; closely. II. Home ·noun ·see <<Homelyn>>. III. Home ·noun The home base; he started fo...

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• home

  The proper situation of any object, when it retains its full force of action, or when it is properly...

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• Service

  ·noun The act of serving the ball. II. Service ·- ·Alt. of Service. III. Service ·noun Hence, a mu...

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• service

  The profession; as a general term, expresses every kind of duty which a naval or military man can be...

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• Harvest-home

  ·noun The opportunity of gathering treasure. II. Harvest-home ·noun The gathering and bringing home...

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• Home-bound

  ·adj Kept at home. ...

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• Home-bred

  ·adj Not polished; rude; uncultivated. II. Home-bred ·adj Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. ...

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• Home-coming

  ·noun Return home. ...

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• Home-driven

  ·adj Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close. ...

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• Home-dwelling

  ·adj Keeping at home. ...

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• Home-felt

  ·adj Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. ...

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• Home-keeping

  ·noun A staying at home. II. Home-keeping ·adj Staying at home; not gadding. ...

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• Home-speaking

  ·noun Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. ...

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• Home, John

  (1722-1808) Dramatist, s. of the Town-Clerk of Leith, where he was b., ed. there and at Edin., and ...

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• to see home

  'To see a lady home,' is to wait upon or attend her home from a party or elsewhere. The eventful da...

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• called home

  asked in the church. Sedgemoor. ...

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• blow home

  The wind does not cease or moderate till it comes past that place, blowing continuously over the lan...

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• chock-home

  , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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• coming-home

  Said of the anchor when it has been dropped on bad holding ground, or is dislodged from its bed by t...

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• falling home

  When the top-sides are inclined within the perpendicular; opposite of wall-sided. (See tumbling home...

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• home-traders

  The contradistinction of foreign-going ships. ...

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• sailors' home

  A house built by subscription, for the accommodation of seamen on moderate terms, and to rescue them...

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• sheet home!

  The order, after the sails are loosed, to extend the sheets to the outer extremities of the yards, t...

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• tumbling home

  The opposite of wall-sided, or flaring out. That part of a ship's side which curves inwardly above t...

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• Bond service

  ·- The condition of a bond servant; service without wages; slavery. ...

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• Bord service

  ·- Service due from a bordar; bordage. ...

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• Knight service

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Knight's service. II. Knight service ·- A tenure of lands held by knights on cond...

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• Knight's service

  ·add. ·- Service such as a knight can or should render; hence, good or valuable service. II. Knight...

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• Secret service

  ·add. ·- The detective service of a government. In the United States, in time of peace the bureau of...

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• Service cap

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Service hat. ...

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• Service hat

  ·add. ·- A cap or hat worn by officers or enlisted men when full-dress uniform, or dress uniform, is...

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• Service uniform

  ·add. ·- The uniform prescribed in regulations for active or routine service, in distinction from dr...

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• recruiting service

  Robbing on the highway. ...

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• service-berry

  A wild fruit common to the British provinces in America, described by Sir Geo. Simpson as "a sort of...

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• active service

  Duty against an enemy; operations in his presence. Or in the present day it denotes serving on full-...

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• divine service

  Ordered by the articles of war, whenever the weather on a Sunday will allow of it. ...

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• foreign service

  Vessels or forces stationed in any part of the world out of the United Kingdom. The opposite of home...

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• grab service

  Country vessels first employed by the Bombay government against the pirates; afterwards erected into...

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• long-service

  A cable properly served to prevent chafing under particular use. ...

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• merchant service

  The mercantile marine. ...

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• on service

  On duty. ...

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• preventive service

  The establishment of coast-guards at numerous stations along the shores of the United Kingdom for th...

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• short-service

  Chafing geer put on a hemp cable for a short range. ...

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• Kames, Henry Home, Lord

  (1696-1782) Miscellaneous writer, s. of Geo. H., of Kames, Berwickshire, was admitted an advocate i...

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• ram home, to

  To drive home the ammunition in a gun. ...

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• Civil Service Commission

  ·add. ·- In the United States, a commission appointed by the President, consisting of three members,...

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• Civil Service Reform

  ·add. ·- The substitution of business principles and methods for political methods in the conduct of...

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• Public-service corporation

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Quasi-public corporation. ...

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• continuous service men

  Those seamen who, having entered for a period, on being paid off, are permitted to have leave, and r...

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• mend the service

  Put on more service to the cable, or any part of the rigging chafed. ...

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• points of service

  The principal details of duty, which ought to be executed with zeal and alacrity. ...

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• bring home the anchor, to

  is to weigh it. It applies also when the flukes slip or will not hold; a ship then brings home her a...

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• training-ship for the merchant service

  A vessel properly equipped with instructors and means to rear able-bodied lads for the merchant serv...

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