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cross-trees
Certain timbers supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees at the upper ends of the lower and top mas...
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Jack
·noun The wall-eyed pike.
II. Jack ·noun A sawhorse or sawbuck.
III. Jack ·noun A young pike; a pi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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jack
A farthing, a small bowl serving as the mark for bowlers. An instrument for pulling off boots.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack
1) Haifa pint. Yorks.
2) a quarter of a pint.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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jack
In the British navy the jack is a small union flag, formed by the intersection of St. George's and S...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Cross
·noun Church lands.
II. Cross ·prep Athwart; across.
III. Cross ·vi To be inconsistent.
IV. Cross...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cross
In the New Testament the instrument of crucifixion, and hence used for the crucifixion of Christ its...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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(Holy) Cross
See Crutched Friars.
...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cross
To come home by weeping cross; to repent at the conclusion.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Cross
As the emblem of a slave's death and a murderer's punishment, the cross was naturally looked upon wi...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Goodly trees
Boughs of, were to be carried in festive procession on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles (Le...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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spotted trees
Equivalent to blazed trees, which see. Maine.
...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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witness-trees
In newly settled countries at the West, every mile square is marked by "blazed" trees, and the corne...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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axle-trees
The two cross-pieces of a gun-carriage, fixed across and under the fore and hinder parts of the chee...
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bilge-trees
Another name for bilge-coads.
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trestle-trees
Two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally fore-and-aft on each side of the lower mast-head, to su...
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Algum Or Almug Trees
the former occurring in (2 Chronicles 2:8; 9:10,11) the latter in (1 Kings 10:11,12) These words are...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Almug Trees
[Algum Or Almug Trees TREES]
see Algum Trees
...
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Mulbury Trees
(Heb. becaim). Mention of these is made only in (2 Samuel 5:23,24) and 1Chr 14:14 We are quite unabl...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Apple-jack
·noun Apple brandy.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Black-jack
·noun The ensign of a pirate.
II. Black-jack ·noun The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
III. Black-ja...
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California jack
·add. ·- A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.
...
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Cheap-jack
·noun ·Alt. of Cheap-john.
...
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Jack Ketch
·- A public executioner, or hangman.
...
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Minute-jack
·noun A timeserver; an inconstant person.
II. Minute-jack ·noun A figure which strikes the hour on ...
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Supple-jack
·noun A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United States, having a tough and pliab...
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London, Jack
(b. 1876)
American novelist. The Son of the Wolf (1900), The God of his Fathers, Children of the Fr...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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black jack
1) A nick name given to the Recorder by the Thieves.
2) A jug to drink out of, made of jacked leath...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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glim jack
A link-boy. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack adams
A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack ketch
The hangman; vide DERRICK and KETCH.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack pudding
The merry andrew, zany, or jester to a mountebank.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack robinson
Before one could say Jack Robinson; a saying to express a very short time, originating from a very v...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack sprat
A dwarf, or diminutive fellow.
...
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack weight
A fat man.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack whore
A large masculine overgrown wench.
...
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jack-bird
n.
a bird of the South Island of NewZealand, Creadion cinereus, Buller. See also Saddle-back and Cr...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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jack shay
or Jackshea, n.
a tin quart-pot.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 209:
«H...
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long-jack
name given to the tree Flindersiaoxleyana, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae; called alsoLight Yellow-Wood.
...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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station-jack
n.
a form of bush cookery.
1853. `The Emigrant's Guide to Australia.' (Article onBush-Cookery, fro...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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supple-jack
n.
The word is English in thesense of a strong cane, and is the name of various climbingshrubs from...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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apple jack
A liquor distilled from cider; also called cider brandy.
...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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flap-jack
A fried cake; a pan-cake; a fritter. A word used alike in England and the United States, where it is...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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supple jack
(Lat. rhamnus volubilis.) The popular name of a vine common to some of the Southern States. Twisted ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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flop-jack
a small pasty, or turn-over. Glouc.
...
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black-jack
The ensign of a pirate. Also, a capacious tin can for beer, which was formerly made of waxed leather...
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double-jack
See jack-screw.
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jack adams
A stubborn fool.
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jack afloat
A sailor. Euripides used almost the same term in floater, for a seaman.
...
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jack-barrel
A minnow.
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jack-block
A block occasionally attached to the topgallant-tie, and through which the top-gallant top-rope is r...
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jack-boots
Large coverings for the feet and legs, outside all, worn by fishermen.
...
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jack-hern
A name on our southern coasts for the heron.
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jack-knife
A horn-handled clasp-knife with a laniard, worn by seamen.
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jack-pins
A name applied to the fife-rail pins, also called Tack-pins.
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jack robinson
♦ Before you could say Jack Robinson, is a very old expression for a short time,
"A warke it ys as...
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jack-screw
A small machine used to cant or lift weighty substances, and in stowing cotton or other elastic good...
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jack-shark
A common sobriquet of the Squalus tribe.
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jack-sharp
A small fresh-water fish, otherwise known as prickly-back.
...
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jack-staff
A short staff raised at the bowsprit-cap, upon which the union-jack is hoisted.
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jack-stays
Ropes, battens, or iron bars placed on a yard or spar and set taut, either for bending the head of a...
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lifting-jack
A portable machine for lifting heavy objects, acting by the power either of the lever, the tooth and...
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skip-jack
A dandified trifling officer; an upstart. Also, the merry-thought of a fowl. Also, a small fish of t...
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union-jack
The union flag used separately; in the merchant service it must have a broad white border.
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whip-jack
An old term, equivalent to fresh-water sailor, or a sham-shipwrecked tar. (See turnpike-sailors.)
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Cross-armed
·adj With arms crossed.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cross-banded
·adj A term used when a narrow ribbon of veneer is inserted into the surface of any piece of furnitu...
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Cross-bearer
·noun A subdeacon who bears a cross before an archbishop or primate on solemn occasions.
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Cross-birth
·noun Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, ...
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Cross-bun
·noun A bun or cake marked with a cross, and intended to be eaten on Good Friday.
...
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Cross-buttock
·add. ·noun A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg a...
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Cross-crosslet
·noun A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses.
...
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Cross-days
·noun ·pl The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
...
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Cross-examination
·noun The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the party against whom he has been called and...
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Cross-examine
·vt To examine or question, as a witness who has been called and examined by the opposite party.
...
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Cross-examined
·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-examine.
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Cross-examiner
·noun One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
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Cross-examining
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-examine.
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Cross-eye
·noun ·see <<Strabismus>>.
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Cross-eyed
·adj Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
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Cross-fertilize
·add. ·vt To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual...
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Cross-fertilized
·add. ·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-fertilize.
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Cross-fertilizing
·add. ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-fertilize.
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Cross-garnet
·noun A hinge having one strap perpendicular and the other strap horizontal giving it the form of an...
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Cross-pawl
·noun ·same·as Cross-spale.
...
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Cross-purpose
·noun A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
II. Cross-...
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Cross-question
·vt To cross-examine; to subject to close questioning.
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Cross-questioned
·Impf & ·p.p. of Cross-question.
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Cross-questioning
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Cross-question.
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Cross-reading
·noun The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns,...
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Cross-spale
·noun ·Alt. of Cross-spall.
...
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Cross-spall
·noun One of the temporary wooden braces, placed horizontally across a frame to hold it in position ...
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Cross-springer
·noun One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Il...
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Cross-staff
·noun A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets.
II. Cross-staff ·noun An instrument formerly u...
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Cross-stitch
·noun A form of stitch, where the stitches are diagonal and in pairs, the thread of one stitch cross...
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Cross-stone
·noun ·see <<Harmotome>>, and <<Staurotide>>.
...
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Cross-tail
·noun A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
...
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Cross-tie
·noun A sleeper supporting and connecting the rails, and holding them in place.
...
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Cross-tining
·noun A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges.
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Cross-vaulting
·noun Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults.
...
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Cross-week
·noun Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.
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Holy cross
·- The cross as the symbol of Christ's crucifixion.
...
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Peltier's cross
·add. ·- A cross formed of two strips of different metals, to illustrate the Peltier effect.
...
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Red Cross
·add. ·- The crusaders or the cause they represented.
II. Red Cross ·add. ·- A hospital or ambulanc...
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Broken Cross
At the western end of Cheapside. near the church of St. Michael le Querne. Erected by the Earl of Gl...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cow Cross
See St. John Street.
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Cross Alley
North out of George Alley, with a passage west to Shoe Lane at No. 32. In Farringdon Ward Without (H...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cross Court
Out of London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
...
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The Cross Keys
Messuages and tenements called the "Cross Keys" and the "Woodwharfe" near Paul's Wharf in parish of ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cross Lane
1) East out of St. Mary-at-Hill to Harp Lane (P.O. Directory), crossing St. Dunstan's Hill. In Billi...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cross Street
West out of King Street to Milk Street Market, crossing Laurence Lane (Hatton, 1708-Strype, ed. 1755...
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The Golden Cross
The sign of the Golden Cross in Temys Street, 1538 (L. and P. H. VIII. XIV. (1), p. 220).
No later ...
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Holborn Cross
Near the Conduit at Snow Hill, in parish of St. Sepulchre. (Stow 387).
First mention: "Holbourn Cro...
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Holy Cross
See Holy Cross.
...
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Minories' Cross
In Agas' map at the junction of the Minories and Little Tower Hill.
It is also shown on Haiward and...
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(St.) Paul's Cross
At the north-east end of the Cathedral (O.S. 1880).
"About the middest of the Churchyard is a pulpi...
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Red Cross
1) In Watling Street. Rent given to parish of All Hallows, Bread_Street (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 1...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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White Cross
In an Inquisition 3 Ed. I. mention is made of water coming down from Smethefeld del Barbican in the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cross dishonest
A cross cove; any person who lives by stealing or in a dishonest manner.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross bite
One who combines with a sharper to draw in a friend; also, to counteract or disappoint. CANT.--This ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross buttock
A particular lock or fall in the Broughtonian art, which, as Mr. Fielding observes, conveyed more pl...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cross patch
A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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weeping cross
To come home by weeping cross; to repent.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Southern Cross
n.
The constellation of theSouthern Cross is of course visible in places farther norththan Australi...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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criss-cross
1) A mark in the shape of a cross; especially that of those who cannot sign their own names. Mr. Har...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-eye
That sort of squint, by which both the eyes turn towards the nose, so that the rays, in passing to t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-fox
A fox whose color is between the common reddish-yellow and the silver-gray, having on its back a bla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-grained
Perverse; troublesome; vexatious.--Johnson.
Or what the plague did Juno mean,
That cross-grain'd...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cross-patch
An ill-tempered person. A vulgar word, used alike in England and America. Patch is a very old word o...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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criss-cross
The mark of a man who cannot write his name.
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cross-bars
Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor.
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cross-bitt
The same as cross-piece (which see).
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cross-bored
Bored with holes alternately on the edges of planks, to separate the fastenings, so as to avoid spli...
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cross-bow
An ancient weapon of our fleet, when also in use on shore.
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cross-chocks
Large pieces of timber fayed across the dead-wood amidships, to make good the deficiency of the heel...
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cross-fish
A northern name for the asterias or star-fish; so called from the Norwegian kors-fisk. Also, the Ura...
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cross-grained
Not straight-grained as in good wood; hence the perverse and vexatious disposition of the ne'er-do-w...
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cross-head
In a steamer's engine, is on the top of the piston-rod athwart the cylinder; and there is another fi...
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cross-pawls
See cross-spales.
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cross-piece
The transverse timber of the bitts. Also, a rail of timber extending over the windlass of some merch...
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cross-sea
A sea not caused by the wind then blowing. During a heavy gale which changes quickly (a cyclone, for...
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cross-somer
A beam of timber.
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cross-spales
or spalls.
Temporary beams nailed across a vessel to keep the sides together, and support the ship...
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cross-staff
See fore-staff.
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cross-swell
This is similar to a cross-sea, except that it undulates without breaking violently.
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cross-tail
In a steam-engine, is of the same form as the cylinder cross-head: it has iron straps catching the p...
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cross-tide
The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.)
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cross-timbers
See cross-piece.
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southern cross
The popular name of a group of stars near the South Pole, which are somewhat in the figure of a cros...
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trees of a ship
The chess-trees, the cross-trees, the rough-trees, the trestle-trees, and the waste-trees.
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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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Jack-o'-lantern
·noun ·see Jack-with-a-lantern, under 2d Jack.
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jack nasty face
A sea term, signifying a common sailor.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack of legs
A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfords...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Jack the Painter
n.
very strong bush-tea, socalled from the mark it leaves round the drinker's mouth.
1855. G. C. M...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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jack-sharp-nails
a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb.
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jack-o-legs
a clasp knife. N.
...
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bread-room jack
The purser's steward's help.
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fresh-water jack
The same as fresh-water sailor.
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jack in office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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jack nasty-face
A cook's assistant.
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jack of dover
An old sea-dish, the composition of which is now lost. Chaucer's host in rallying the cook exclaims,...
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jack o' lantern
The corpo santo, or St. Elmo's light, is sometimes so called.
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Andrew Cross Alley
Adjoining the church of St. Andrew Holborn on the west and called with other premises the " Church L...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cow Cross Street
See St. John Street.
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(Holy) Cross, Friars of
House of Crouched or Crossed Fryers founded 1298, at the south-east corner of Hart Street (S. 149). ...
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(Holy) Cross, West Smithfield
Ecclesia Sanctae Crucis infra Hospitale Sancti Bartholomaei in Westsmythefelde Londoniarum pertinet ...
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Cross in Cheapside
See Great Cross in Cheapside.
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Cross Key Court
1) South out of London Wall at No. 44 to Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street War...
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Cross Key Square
North out of Little Britain at No. 8 (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward Without.
First mention: H...
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Cross Keys Yard
See Cross Keys Alley.
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Cross Keys Alley
,Cross Keys Inn, Cross Keys Yard
East out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. an...
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Cross Keys Court
1) North-west out of Chick Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
The site ...
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Cross Keys Inn
1) On the south side of Holborn, in Farringdon Ward Without, east of Fetter Lane (O. and M. 1677).
...
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Gold Cross Court
See Golden Cross Court.
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Golden Cross Court
1) Out of Cateaton Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
Named after the s...
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Holborn Cross Street
"Tenements in Holbourne crosse streete" belonging to Wm. Nuttall, 1559 (Ct. H.W. II. 670).
Perhaps ...
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The Red Cross, Cripplegate
Probably a house with this sign, for in an Inquisition 2 Ed. I. Alicia de Batonia is said to have di...
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Red Cross Alley
1) East out of Church Alley to London Bridge (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, i 799). In Bridge Ward Within.
Th...
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Red Cross Court
1) South out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 284, to Elmes, 1831)...
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Red Cross Square
1) North out of Great Tower Street, between Mark Lane and Seething Lane (O.S. 25 in. 1880).
Earlies...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Red Cross Street
North from No. 1 Fore Street to Barbican at No. 31 (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Without.
F...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Red Cross Tavern
In Barbican at No.32, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype, ed .1720-Elmes, 1831).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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christ-cross row
The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ's...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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holy-cross toad
n. See catholic frog.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cross-bar-shot
The famed cross-bar-shot, or properly bar-shot, used by the Americans: when folded it presented a ba...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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cylinder cross-head
An adaptation on the top of the piston-rod, stretching out athwart the cylinder, from the ends of wh...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Palm trees, The city of
The name given to Jericho (q.v.), Deut. 34:3; Judg. 1:16; 3:13.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Jack Alley, Bow Lane
See Crown Court16, Trinity Lane.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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jack at a pinch
A poor hackney parson.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack in a box
A sharper, or cheat. A child in the mother's womb.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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jack in an office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Jack in a Box
i.q. Hair-trigger (q.v.).
1854. `The Home Companion,' p. 554:
«When previously mentioning the eleg...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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jack in the basket
A sort of wooden cap or basket on the top of a pole, to mark a sand-bank or hidden danger.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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jack in the box
A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms th...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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jack in the dust
See jack in the bread-room
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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jib and staysail jack
A designation of inexperienced officers, who are troublesome to the watch by constantly calling it u...
The Sailor's Word-Book