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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...
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jack in the dust
See jack in the bread-room
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Basket
·vt To put into a basket.
II. Basket ·noun The bell or vase of the Corinthian capital.
III. Basket...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Basket
There are five different Hebrew words so rendered in the Authorized Version:
1) A basket (Heb. sal,...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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basket
An exclamation frequently made use of in cock-pits, at cock-fightings, where persons refusing or una...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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basket
In field-works, baskets or corbeilles are used, to be filled with earth, and placed by one another, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Basket
The Hebrew terms used in the description of this article are as follows: (1) Sal, so called from the...
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jack in office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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jack in the bread-room
, or jack in the dust.
The purser's steward's assistant in the bread and steward's room.
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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...
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jack
A farthing, a small bowl serving as the mark for bowlers. An instrument for pulling off boots.
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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...
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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...
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in the wind
The state of a vessel when thrown with her head into the wind, but not quite all in the wind (see al...
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jack in a box
A sharper, or cheat. A child in the mother's womb.
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jack in an office
An insolent fellow in authority.
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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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Basket ball
·add. ·- A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Buck-basket
·noun A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash.
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Basket Makers
In 3 Ed. IV. they were allowed to have shops only in the Manor of Blanch Appleton (S. 151).
The 52n...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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basket-making
The good old trade of basket-making; copulation, or making feet for children's stockings.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bawdy basket
The twenty-third rank of canters, who carry pins, tape, ballads, and obscene books to sell, but live...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bread basket
The stomach; a term used by boxers. I took him a punch in his bread basket; i.e. I gave him a blow i...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pin basket
The youngest child.
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basket-fence
n.
Local name for a stake-hedge. See quotation.
1872. G. S. Baden-Powell, `New Homes for the Old C...
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ballast-basket
Usually made of osier, for the transport and measure of shingle-ballast. Supplied to the gunner for ...
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basket-fish
A name for several species of Euryale; a kind of star-fish, the arms of which divide and subdivide m...
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basket-hilt
The guard continued up the hilt of a cutlass, so as to protect the whole hand from injury.
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in
in (old forms endŏ and indŭ, freq. in ante-class. poets; cf. Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4; id. ap. Macr. S...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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in
in I old indu, prep.with acc.or abl.
I I. With acc., in space, with verbs implying ent...
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in-
in- an inseparable particle cf. Gr. ἀ-, ἀν-; Germ. and Eng. un-, which, prefixed to an adj., negati...
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-in
·- A suffix. ·see the Note under -ine.
...
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In
·noun A reentrant angle; a nook or corner.
II. In ·noun One who is in office;
— the opposite of ou...
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In-
·- An inseparable prefix, or particle, meaning not, non-, un- as, inactive, incapable, inapt. In- re...
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in
for into. Mr. Colman, in remarking upon the prevalence of this inaccuracy in New York, says: "We get...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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in
The state of any sails in a ship when they are furled or stowed, in opposition to out, which implies...
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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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Apple-jack
·noun Apple brandy.
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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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jack adams
A fool. Jack Adams's parish; Clerkenwell.
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jack ketch
The hangman; vide DERRICK and KETCH.
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jack pudding
The merry andrew, zany, or jester to a mountebank.
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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...
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jack sprat
A dwarf, or diminutive fellow.
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jack weight
A fat man.
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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...
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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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Hole in the air
·add. ·- = Air hole, above.
...
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Ephraim in the wilderness
(John 11: 54), a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Thorn in the flesh
(2 Cor. 12:7-10). Many interpretations have been given of this passage.
1) Roman Catholic writers t...
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Burnt in the Fire 1666.
Not further identified.
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Le Cok in the Houpe
A tenement so called in parish of St. Alphege at London Wall 1349 (Ct. H.W. I. 566).
No further ref...
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(St.) Dunstan in the East
On the west side of St. Dunstan's Hill at No. 2 (P.O. Directory). In Tower Ward.
Earliest mention f...
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(St.) Dunstan in the West
On the north side of Fleet Street at No. 187 (P.O. Directory), between Fetter Lane and Chancery Lane...
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(St.) James' in the Temple
See Temple Church.
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(St.) Martin in the Jewry
Thomas the priest of St. Martin's in the Jewry is mentioned in a Deed about 1197, as witness to a gr...
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(St.) Olave in the Shamb1es
Parish mentioned in Will of Milo de Wynton, 1273-4 (Ct. H.W. I. 16).
Perhaps the church of St. Nich...
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Pye in the Royall
A Messuage so called in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster Church, 1565 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 35).
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(St.) Stephen in the Jewry
See St. Stephen Coleman Street.
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(St.) Ursula in the Poultry
Seint Vrsula, chapel in the Pultry, mentioned in the list of Parish Churches of London in Arnold's C...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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babes in the wood
Criminals in the stocks, or pillory.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dicked in the nob
Silly. Crazed.
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drop in the eye
Almost drunk.
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flush in the pocket
Full of money. The cull is flush in the fob. The fellow is full of money.
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shove in the mouth
A dram.
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ten in the hundred
An usurer; more than five in the hundred being deemed usurious interest.
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wheelband in the nick
Regular drinking over the left thumb.
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windmills in the head
Foolish projects.
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wolf in the breast
An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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wolf in the stomach
A monstrous or canine appetite.
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to flash in the pan
To fail of success. A metaphor borrowed from a gun, which, after being primed and ready to be discha...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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down in the mouth
Dispirited, dejected, disheartened.--Brockett's Glossary.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dyed in the wool
Ingrained; thorough.
The Democrats, on the authority of Mr. Cameron's letter, are beginning to clai...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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cloth in the wind
Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also, groggy.
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cross in the hawse
Is when a ship moored with two anchors from the bows has swung the wrong way once, whereby the two c...
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down in the mouth
Low-spirited or disheartened.
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elbow in the hawse
Two crosses in a hawse. When a ship, being moored in a tide-way, swings twice the wrong way, thereby...
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flash in the pan
An expressive metaphor, borrowed from the false fire of a musket, meaning to fail of success after p...
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lay in the oars
Unship them from the rowlocks, and place them fore and aft in the boat.
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sheet in the wind
Half intoxicated; as the sail trembles and is unsteady, so is a drunken man.
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square in the head
Very bluff and broad in the fore-body.
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turn in the hawse
Two crosses in a cable.
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wind in the teeth
Dead against a ship.
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Bezer In The Wilderness
a city of refuge in the downs on the east of the Jordan. (4:43; Joshua 20:8; 21:36; 1 Chronicles 6:7...
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Wandering In The Wilderness
[Wilderness Of The Wandering OF THE WANDERING]
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crossing the cables in the hatchway
A method by which the operation of coiling is facilitated; it alludes to hempen cables, which are no...
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The
·vi ·see <<Thee>>.
II. The (·art·def) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their me...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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hand basket portion
A woman whose husband receives frequent presents from her father, or family, is said to have a hand-...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Chapel in (St.) Dunstan in the East Churchyard
There was a chapel "upon the charnell in the chirch haue of Seint Dunstan in the Est," mentioned in ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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becket, the tacks and sheets in the
The order to hang up the weather-main and fore-sheet, and the lee-main and fore-tack, to the small k...
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All Hallows in the Ropery
See All Hallows the Great.
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Dog's Head in the Pot
A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...
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(St.) Dunstan Fraternity, in the Go1dsmithery
Various bequests were made to the Wardens of this Fraternity in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Simon ...
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(St.) Dunstan in the East, Churchyard
On the north and south sides of the Church (O.S.). Churchyard of the Church of St. Dunstan in East c...
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Hole in the Wall Court
At No. 6o Fleet Street (Lockie, 1810).
Named after the public house so called.
The name is said to...
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(St.) James' in the Wall Hermitage
A chapel or hermitage adjoining the north-west corner of the Wall of London near Cripplegate in Farr...
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(St.) James' in, near the Vintry
See St. James' Garlickhithe.
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(St.) John in the White Tower
See St. John's Chapel in the Tower.
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(St.) John's Chapel in the Tower
In the White Tower, Tower of London. A fine specimen of Norman architecture. Records kept there (De ...
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Standard in the Old Bailey
Mentioned by Stow (391) and the waste of the water served the prisoners in Ludgate.
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(St.) Stephen's Lane in the Jewry
Rents in the lane of St. Stephen in the Jewry near the Brethren of the Penance of Jesus Christ, 1291...
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board him in the smoke
To take a person by surprise, as by firing a broadside, and boarding in the smoke.
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lieutenant, in the royal navy
The officer next in rank and power below the commander. There are several lieutenants in a large shi...
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pay-serjeant, in the army
A steady non-commissioned officer, selected by the captain of each company, to pay the subsistence d...
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round-turn in the hawse
A term implying the situation of the two cables of a ship, which, when moored, has swung the wrong w...
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shake in the wind, to
To bring a vessel's head so near the wind, when close-hauled, as to shiver the sails.
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span in the rigging, to
To draw the upper parts of the shrouds together by tackles, in order to seize on the cat-harping leg...
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three sheets in the wind
Unsteady from drink.
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in eopte
in eopte eo ipso, Paul. ex Fest. p. 110 Müll.
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Biting in
·- The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. ·see <<Etch>>.
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In antis
·- Between antae;
— said of a portico in classical style, where columns are set between two antae, ...
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In commendam
·- ·see <<Commendam>>, and Partnership in Commendam, under <<Partnership>>.
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In esse
·- In being; actually existing;
— distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a ...
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In loco
·- In the place; in the proper or natural place.
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In posse
·- In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass;
— contradistinguished f...
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In rem
·add. ·- Lit., in or against a (or the) thing;.
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In situ
·- In its natural position or place;
— said of a rock or fossil, when found in the situation in whi...
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In transitu
·- In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.
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In vacuo
·- In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.
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In-going
·noun The act of going in; entrance.
II. In-going ·adj Going; entering, as upon an office or a poss...
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Lying-in
·noun The act of bearing a child.
II. Lying-in ·noun The state attending, and consequent to, childb...
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Printing in
·add. ·- A process by which cloud effects or other features not in the original negative are introdu...
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Roughing-in
·noun The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
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Shoo-in
·add. ·- a candidate who is certain to win easily.
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Take-in
·noun Imposition; fraud.
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foysted in
Words or passages surreptitiously interpolated or inserted into a book or writing.
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taken in
Imposed on, cheated.
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in twig
Handsome; stilish. The cove is togged in twig; the fellow is dressed in the fashion.
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well-in
adj.
answering to `well off,' `well todo,' `wealthy'; and ordinarily used, in Australia, instead of...
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to cave in
Said of the earth which falls down when digging into a bank. Figuratively, to break down; to give up...
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to happen in
To happen to call in; to come in accidentally.
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to rope in
To take or sweep in collectively; an expression much used in colloquial language at the West. It ori...
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to stand in
To cost. 'This horse stands me in two hundred dollars.'
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to suck in
To take in; to cheat; to deceive. A figurative expression, probably drawn from a sponge, which sucks...
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to turn in
To go to bed. Originally a seaman's phrase, but now common on land.
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to put the licks in
is to run very fast. A Northern phrase. Also in speaking of a ship sailing, we bear the phrase, 'She...
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forted in
Intrenched in a fort.
A few inhabitants forted in on the Potomac.--Marshall's Washington.
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roping in
Cheating. A very common expression in the South-western States.
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bringing in
The detention of a vessel on the high seas, and bringing her into port for adjudication.
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chancery, in
When a ship gets into irons. (See irons.)
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cutting in
Making the special directions for taking the blubber off a whale, which is flinched by taking off ci...
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filling in
The replacing a ship's vacant planks opened for ventilation, when preparing her, from ordinary, for ...
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heaving in
Shortening in the cable. Also, the binding a block and hook by a seizing.
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housing-in
After a ship in building is past the breadth of her bearing, and that she is brought in too narrow t...
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in-board
Within the ship; the opposite of out-board.
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in-boats!
The order to hoist the boats in-board.
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in-bow!
The order to the bowman to throw in his oar, and prepare his boat-hook, previous to getting alongsid...
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in-hauler
The rope used for hauling in the clue of a boom-sail, or jib-traveller: it is the reverse of out-hau...
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lay in
The opposite of lay out. The order for men to come in from the yards after reefing or furling. It al...
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lie in!
The order to come in from the yards when reefing, furling, or other duty is performed.
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locking-in
the alternate clues and bodies of the hammocks when hung up.
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set in
Said when the sea-breeze or weather appears to be steady.
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taking in
The act of brailing up and furling sails at sea; generally used in opposition to setting. (See furl,...
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tumble in
See tumbling home.
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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.
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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...
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jack-sharp-nails
a prickle-back ; called also, in Middlesex, a strickle-back. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose