jew-balance

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• Jew

  ·noun Originally, one belonging to the tribe or kingdom of Judah; after the return from the Babyloni...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Jew

  same as Judah ...

  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

• Jew

  The name derived from the patriarch Judah, at first given to one belonging to the tribe of Judah or ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• jew

  1) An over-reaching dealer, or hard, sharp fellow; an extortioner: the brokers formerly behind St. C...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Jew

  (a man of Judea). This name was properly applied to a member of the kingdom of Judah after the separ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Balance

  ·noun The constellation Libra. II. Balance ·noun An apparatus for weighing. III. Balance ·noun A m...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Balance

  Occurs in Lev. 19:36 and Isa. 46:6, as the rendering of the Hebrew kanch', which properly means "a r...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• balance

  A mercantile word originally introduced into the ordinary language of life by the southern people, b...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• balance

  One of the simple mechanical powers, used in determining the weights and masses of different bodies....

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• jew bail

  Insufficient bail: commonly Jews, who for a sum of money will bail any action whatsoever, and justif...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jew-fish

  n. a name applied in New South Walesto two or more different species, Sciaena antarctica,Castln., a...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• jew-lizard

  n. a large Australian lizard, Amiphibolurus barbatus, Cuv.; called also BeardedLizard. 1847. L. Le...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Balance wheel

  ·- A wheel which imparts regularity to the movements of any engine or machine; a fly wheel. II. Bal...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Trial balance

  ·add. ·- The testing of a ledger to discover whether the debits and credits balance, by finding whet...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• balance, to

  To contract a sail into a narrower compass; this is peculiar to the mizen of a ship, and to the main...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• balance-fish

  The hammer-headed shark (which see). ...

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• balance-frames

  Those frames or bends of timber, of an equal capacity or area, which are equally distant from the sh...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• balance-reef

  A reef-band that crosses a sail from the outer head-earing to the tack diagonally, making it nearly ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• silver jew-fish

  n. a New South Wales name forthe young of the fish called Teraglin, or of the true Jew-fish (q.v.);...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• balance of trade

  A computation of the value of all commodities which we import or export, showing the difference in a...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• counter-balance weight

  in the marine engine. (See lever.) Also in many marine barometers, where it slides and is fixed by a...

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