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• Hope

  ·noun A small bay; an inlet; a haven. II. Hope ·noun A sloping plain between mountain ridges. III....

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• Hope

  One of the three main elements of Christian character (1 Cor. 13:13). It is joined to faith and love...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• hope

  A small bay; it was an early term for valley, and is still used in Kent for a brook, and gives name ...

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• Lower

  ·adj Compar. of Low, ·adj. II. Lower ·noun Cloudiness; gloominess. III. Lower ·noun A frowning; su...

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• Hope, Thomas

  (1770-1831) Novelist and writer on art, was a wealthy merchant of Amsterdam, of Scotch descent, his...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• "Hope, Anthony"

  see Hawkins, Anthony Hope. ...

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• forlorn hope

  A gamester's last stake. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• flowing-hope

  See forlorn hope. ...

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• forlorn hope

  Officers and men detached on desperate service to make a first attack, or to be the first in mountin...

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• lower handsomely, lower cheerly

  Are opposed to each other; the former being the order to lower gradually, and the latter to lower ex...

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• Lower-case

  ·adj Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; — used to denote the small letters, in distinction ...

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• Lower Court

  In the Little Minories (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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• Lower Mews

  Out of the Crescent, Minories, in Portsoken Ward (Lockie, 1816). Not named in the maps. ...

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• lower, to

  The atmosphere to become cloudy. Also, to ease down gradually, expressed of some weighty body suspen...

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• lower counter

  The counter between the upper counter and the rail under the lights. ...

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• lower-deckers

  The heaviest armament, usually on the lower deck. ...

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• lower-finishing

  See finishings. ...

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• lower-height

  See main-breadth. ...

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• lower-hold

  The space for cargo in a merchant-vessel, fitted with 'tween-decks. ...

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• lower-lifts

  The lifts of the fore, main, and crossjack-yards. ...

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• lower masts

  See mast. ...

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• lower transit

  The opposite to the upper transit of a circumpolar star: the passage sub polo. ...

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• Hawkins, Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope")

  (b. 1863) Novelist. The Prisoner of Zenda, The God in the Car, Dolly Dialogues, Rupert of Hentzau, ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Lower East Smithfield

  West from Little Thames Street to the Hermitage Swing Bridge and Basin (P.O. Directory). In the eig...

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• Lower Thames Street

  East from London Bridge to Tower Hill (P.O. Directory). In Tower, Billingsgate and Bridge Wards. Fi...

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• lower-breadth-sweep

  The second on the builder's draught, representing the lower height of breadth, on which line is set ...

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• lower-hold-beams

  The lowest range of beams in a merchantman. ...

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• Blakehors on the Hope

  See Blackhorse Alley, Court, Fleet Street. ...

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• Iren on the Hope

  A tenement so called in parish of St. Mary Magdalene in Olde fisshe-strete, in ward of Castle baynar...

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• open lower deckers, to

  To fire the lower tier of guns. Also said of a person using violent language. ...

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• Salutation Tavern, Lower Thames Street

  See Salutation Court. ...

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• housing of a lower mast

  That part of a mast which is below deck to the step in the kelson; of a bowsprit, the portion within...

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• mate of the lower-deck

  An officer of considerable importance in former times in ships of the line; he was responsible for t...

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• run, to lower by the

  To let go altogether, instead of lowering with a turn on a cleat or bitt-head. ...

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• Nag's Head Court, Lower Thames Street

  See Wilson's Yard. ...

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• running out, and running in, the lower deck guns

  The old practice of morning and evening evolutions in a line-of-battle ship, wind and weather permit...

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