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Lob
·vt ·see <<Cob>>, ·vt. II. Lob ·noun The European pollock. III. Lob ·noun A dull, heavy person. I...

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lob
1) A till in a tradesman's shop. To frisk a lob; to rob a till. See flash panneys. 2) Going on the...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
lob
A sluggish booby; whence lubber. Also, that part of a tree where it first divides into branches. ...

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Worm
·noun Any annelid. II. Worm ·noun An insect larva. III. Worm ·noun The thread of a screw. IV. Wor...

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Worm
1) Heb. sas (Isa. 51:8), denotes the caterpillar of the clothes-moth. 2) The manna bred worms (tola...

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worm
To worm out; to obtain the knowledge of a secret by craft, also to undermine or supplant. He is gone...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
worm
An iron tool shaped like a double cork-screw on the end of a long staff, for withdrawing charges, ig...

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Worm
the representative in the Authorized Version of several Hebrew words. Sas, which occurs in (Isaiah 5...

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lob-lolly
an odd mixture of spoon-meat. Exin. On board of the ships of war, water-gruel is called loblolly, an...

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lob-cock
a clumsy lubberly fellow. North. ...

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lob-cock
A lubber; an old term of utter contempt. ...

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lob-tailing
The act of the sperm whale in violently beating the water with its tail. ...

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Army worm
·- The larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order....

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Galley-worm
·noun A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera, having numerous short legs along ...

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Grugru worm
·- The larva or grub of a large South American beetle (Calandra palmarum), which lives in the pith o...

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Palolo worm
·add. ·- A polystome worm (Palolo viridis) that burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific...

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Worm-eaten
·adj Worn-out; old; worthless. II. Worm-eaten ·adj Eaten, or eaten into, by a worm or by worms; as,...

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Worm-shaped
·adj Shaped like a worm; /hick and almost cylindrical, but variously curved or bent; as, a worm-shap...

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Worm-shell
·noun Any species of Vermetus. ...

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Palmer-worm
(Heb. gazam). The English word may denote either a caterpillar (as rendered by the LXX.), which wand...

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spanish worm
A nail: so called by carpenters when they meet with one in a board they are sawing. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
stomach worm
The stomach worm gnaws; I am hungry. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
worm-snake
n. See under snake. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
worm-fence
A rail fence laid up in a zig-zag manner. Mr. Haskell, one of the delegates from Tennessee, told a ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
black-worm
the black-beetle. Cornish. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
blind-worm
the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S. ...

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worm-stall
a shed in a field to which cattle retire to avoid flies. Derb. ...

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worm-eaten
, or wormed. The state of a plank or of a ship's bottom when perforated by a particular kind of bo...

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