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Main
·adj Vast; huge.
II. Main ·noun A main-hamper.
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main
very; main good, very good. Also the chief; madam's the main, i. e. madam is the chief or ruler. C.
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main
A continent or mainland. Also, figuratively, the ocean.
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post
post (form poste, Enn. An. 235; Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 131; id. Stich. 2, 2, 56), adv. and prep. [root...
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post
post (1) adv.POS-.—Of place, behind, back backwards : ante aut post, L.: servi, qui post erant: ub...
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Post
·adj Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
II. Post ·adv With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to t...
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Post-
·- A prefix signifying behind, back, after; as, postcommissure, postdot, postscript.
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Post
1) A runner, or courier, for the rapid transmission of letters, etc. (2 Chr. 30:6; Esther 3:13, 15; ...
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post
Any ground, fortified or not, where a body of men can be in a condition for defence, or fighting an ...
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Post
Probably, as Gesenius argues, the door-case of a door, including the lintel and side posts. The post...
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Main yard
·- The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.
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Main-gauche
·noun The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right;
— used to parry thru...
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Main-hamper
·noun A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.
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Main-sail
(Gr. artemon), answering to the modern "mizzen-sail," as some suppose. Others understand the "jib," ...
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main-body
The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army.
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main-boom
The spar which stretches the foot of the boom-mainsail in a fore-and-aft rigged vessel.
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main-brace
A purchase attached to the main-yard for trimming it to the wind.
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main-breadth
The broadest part of a ship at any particular timber or frame, distinguished by upper and lower heig...
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main-capstan
The after one, as distinguished from the jeer-capstan.
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main-course
The main-sail.
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main-guard
The principal guard of a garrison town, usually posted in the place-of-arms, or the market-place.
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main-hold
That part of a ship's hold which lies near the main-hatch.
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main-ice
A body of impenetrable ice apparently detached from the land, but immovable; between which and the l...
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main-jeers
Jeers for swaying up the main-yard.
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main-keel
The principal keel, as distinguished from the false-keel and the keelson.
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main-piece
The strong horizontal beam of the windlass, supported at the ends by iron spindles in the windlass-b...
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main-sail
This, in a square-rigged vessel, is distinguished by the so-termed square main-sail; in a fore-and-a...
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main-shaft
The principal shaft in machinery.
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main-spring
The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...
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main-staysail
A storm-sail set between the fore and main masts.
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main-tackle
A large and strong tackle, hooked occasionally upon the main pendant, and used for various purposes,...
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main-transom
A term often applied to the wing-transom (which see).
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main-wales
The lower wales, which are generally placed on the lower breadth, and so that the main-deck knee-bol...
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Binding post
·add. ·- A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
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Cossack post
·add. ·- An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for th...
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Crown-post
·noun ·same·as King-post.
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King-post
·noun A member of a common form of truss, as a roof truss. It is strictly a tie, intended to prevent...
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Lamp-post
·noun A post (generally a pillar of iron) supporting a lamp or lantern for lighting a street, park, ...
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Parcel post
·add. ·- That branch of the post office having to do with the collection, transmission, and delivery...
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Post note
·- A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note paya...
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Post office
·noun ·see under 4th Post.
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Post-abdomen
·noun That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax;
— more commonly called abdomen.
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Post-captain
·noun A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the B...
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Post-disseizin
·noun A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of t...
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Post-disseizor
·noun A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same d...
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Post-fine
·noun A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed;
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Post-impressionism
·add. ·noun In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of recent painter...
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Post-mortem
·adj After death; as, post-mortem rigidity.
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Post-obit
·- ·Alt. of Post-obit bond.
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Post-temporal
·noun A post-temporal bone.
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Post-tragus
·noun A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.
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Post-tympanic
·adj Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.
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Queen-post
·noun One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. ·see King-...
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Tool-post
·noun ·Alt. of Tool-stock.
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Totem post
·add. ·- A pole or pillar, carved and painted with a series of totemic symbols, set up before the ho...
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Post House
At the junction of Threadneedle Street and Cornhill opposite the Stocks (Leake, 1666).
The site is ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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finger post
A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself. Like the fin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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post nointer
A house painter, who occasionally paints or anoints posts. Knight of the post; a false evidence, one...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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post-note
In commerce, a bank-note intended to be transmitted to a distant place by mail, and made payable to ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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advanced post
A spot of ground seized by a party to secure their front. A piquet or outpost.
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alarm-post
A place appointed for troops to assemble, in case of a sudden alarm.
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body-post
An additional stern-post introduced at the fore-part of an aperture cut in the dead-wood in a ship f...
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false post
See false stern-post.
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inner post
, or inner stern-post.
The post on which the transoms are seated. An oak timber brought on and fay...
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post-captain
Formerly a captain of three years' standing, now simply captain, but equal to colonel in the army, b...
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samson's post
A movable pillar which rests on its upper shoulder against a beam, with the lower tenons into the de...
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stern-post
The opposite to the stem; scarphed into the keel, and suspending the rudder. In steam-ships, where a...
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towing-post
A substantial timber fixed through the deck of a steam-tug for making the tow-rope fast to. Also, a ...
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coup de main
A sudden and vigorous attack.
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main royal-mast
That above the main topgallant-mast.
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main-sail haul!
The order given to haul the after-yards round when the ship is nearly head to wind in tacking.
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main-tack block
A block forming part of the purchase used for hauling the main-tack down to.
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main-tackle pendant
A stout piece of rope with a hook in one end, and a thimble in the other, sometimes used for hauling...
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main-top bowline
The bowline of the main-topsail. It is used to haul the weather-leech forward when on a wind, which ...
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main-topsail haul!
The order used instead of main-sail haul, when the main-sail is not set.
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main-yard men
Those in the doctor's list.
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square main-sail
See main-sail.
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Ex post facto
·- ·Alt. of Ex postfacto.
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Post-obit bond
·- A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds hi...
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General Post Office
On the west side of King Edward Street, in Farringdon Ward Within. The chief office in place of the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Post Office Court
South out of Lombard Street at No. io adjoining the Post Office (P.O. Directory). In Langbourn Ward....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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dining room post
A mode of stealing in houses that let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who send up sham...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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post master general
The prime minister, who has the patronage of all posts and places.
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false stern-post
A piece bolted to the after-edge of the main stern-post to improve steerage, and protect it should t...
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inner stern-post
See inner post
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post of honour
The advance, and the right of the lines of any army.
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fill the main-yard
An order well understood to mean, fill the main-topsail, after it has been aback, or the ship hove-t...
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splice the main brace
In nautical parlance, to serve out an extra allowance of grog in bad weather or after severe exertio...
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Old General Post Office
On the east side of St. Martin le Grand (Street), between that street and Foster Lane.
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Post Office, Lombard Street
On the south side of Lombard Street at No. l0 east of St. Mary Woolnoth (P.O. Directory). In Langbou...
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knight of the post
A false evidence, one that is ready to swear any thing for hire.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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post-and-rail tea
slang name for strong bush-tea: socalled because large bits of the tea, or supposed tea, floatabout ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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back of the post
An additional timber bolted to the after-part of the stern-post, and forming its after-face.
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main-piece of the rudder
The rudder-stock, or piece which is connected by the rudder-bands to the stern-post.
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mate of the main-deck
The officer appointed to superintend all the duties to be executed upon the main-deck during the day...
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stay-tackles, fore and main
Special movable purchases for hoisting in and out boats, anchors, &c. They plumb the fore and main h...
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as deaf as the main-mast
Said of one who does not readily catch an order given. Thus at sea the main-mast is synonymous with ...
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haul aboard the fore and main tacks
This is to haul them forward, and down to the chess-trees on the weather-side.
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