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• no! no!

  The answer to the night-hail by which it is known that a midshipman or warrant officer is in the boa...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• No

  No, an Egyptian city , perh. Alexandria; acc. to Bochart, Thebes , Hier. ad Ezech. 30, 14. ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• no

  no, nāvi, 1, v. n. [νέω], to swim, float. I Lit.: alter nare cupit: alter pugnare paratu'st, Enn. a...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• no

  nō āvī, —, āre 1 NA-, to swim, float : nat lupus, O.: piger ad nandum, O.: ars nandi, O.— Prov.: n...

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• No

  ·adj Not any; not one; none. II. No ·noun A refusal by use of the wordd no; a denial. III. No ·nou...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• No

  stirring up; forbidding ...

  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

• No

  Or No-A'mon, the home of Amon, the name of Thebes, the ancient capital of what is called the Middle ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• No

  [No-Amon] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• no catchy no havy

  If I am not caught, I cannot be hurt. Negro saying. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• no odds

  No difference; no consequence; no matter. A common expression in low language. There is no great od...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• no higher!

  See near. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• No-Adiah

  (whom Jehovah meets). • A Levite, son of Binnui who with Meremoth, Eleazar and Jozabad weighed the ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• No-Amon

  (temple of Amon) (Nahum 3:8) No, (Jeremiah 46:25; Ezekiel 30:14,16) a city of Egypt, better known un...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• No-man's land

  ·- Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. II. No-man's land ·- A space amidships used to keep blocks, ro...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Seek-no-further

  ·noun A kind of choice winter apple, having a subacid taste; — formerly called go-no-further. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• cry'd no-child

  a woman cried down by her husband. Lane. NO-CHILD is supposed to be a corruption of NICHIL, i. e. NI...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• come no near!

  The order to the helmsman to steer the ship on the course indicated, and not closer to the wind, whi...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• no-man's land

  A space in midships between the after-part of the belfry and the fore-part of a boat when it is stow...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• to make no bones of

  To do a thing without hesitation. A metaphor borrowed from eating with dispatch as if it contained n...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• dirty dog and no sailor

  or soldier. A mean, spiritless, and utterly useless rascal. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• devil to pay and no pitch hot

  The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• hoddy doddy, all a-se and no body

  A short clumsy person, either male or female. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hard up in a clinch, and no knife to cut the seizing

  Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book