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Lull
·noun A temporary cessation of storm or confusion. II. Lull ·noun The power or quality of soothing;...

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lull
The brief interval of moderate weather between the gusts of wind in a gale. Also, an abatement in th...

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Bag
·vi To become pregnant. II. Bag ·vi To swell with arrogance. III. Bag ·noun The quantity of game b...

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Bag
1) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
bag
He gave them the bag, i.e. left them. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bag
A commercial term of quantity; as, a bread or biscuit bag, a sand-bag, &c. An empty purse. ♦ To ba...

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Bag
is the rendering of several words in the Old and New Testaments. • Charitim, the "bags" in which Na...

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Bag net
·- A bag-shaped net for catching fish. ...

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Ditty-bag
·noun A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, ·etc.; — also called sailor's housewife. ...

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Duffel bag
·add. ·- A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like. ...

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Farding-bag
·noun The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen. ...

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Honey-bag
·noun The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. ...

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Telescope bag
·add. ·- An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other. ...

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green bag
An attorney: those gentlemen carry their clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they h...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
louse bag
A black bag worn to the hair or wig. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
nose bag
A bag fastened to the horse's head, in which the soldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their...

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shag-bag
A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
shake-bag
A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit. ...

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chewgah-bag
n. Queensland aboriginalpigeon-English for Sugar-bag (q.v.). ...

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dilly-bag
See dilli ...

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sugar-bag
n. nest of honey, and the honey. 1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 67: «Th...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
badger-bag
The fictitious Neptune who visits the ship on her crossing the line. ...

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bag, the
Allowed for the men to keep their clothes in. The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-toke...

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bag-reef
A fourth or lower reef of fore-and-aft sails, often used in the royal navy. ♦ Bag-reef of top-sail...

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ditty-bag
Derives its name from the dittis or Manchester stuff of which it was once made. It is in use among s...

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fernan bag
A small ditty-bag, often worn by sailors, for holding tobacco and other things. They have applied th...

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bag of nails
He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
bag and baggage
The whole movable property. ...

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bag, of the head-rails
The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail. ...

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