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• Pay

  ·noun Satisfaction; content. II. Pay ·vt To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pa...

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• to pay

  To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, a...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Dead-pay

  ·noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls. ...

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• Pay Cerps

  ·add. ·- A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, payma...

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• Pay dirt

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pay rock. ...

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• Pay rock

  ·add. ·- Earth, rock, ·etc., which yields a profit to the miner. ...

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• Pay streak

  ·add. ·- A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay. II. Pay streak ·add. ·- The zone, p...

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• Pay Office

  On the west side of Broad Street, at the corner of Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• store pay

  Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• dead-pay

  That given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears, as was formerly pra...

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• full pay

  The stipend allowed when on actual service. ...

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• growing pay

  That which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect. ...

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• pay, to

  [from Fr. poix, pitch]. To pay a seam is to pour hot pitch and tar into it after caulking, to defend...

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• pay away

  The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope. ♦ Pay down. Send che...

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• retired pay

  A graduated pension for retired officers; but the term is nearly synonymous with half pay. ...

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• sea-pay

  That due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship. ...

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• pay round, to

  To turn the ship's head. ...

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• pinch-gut pay

  The short allowance money. ...

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• pay a yard, to

  See pay a mast, to ...

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• pay a mast, to

  or pay a yard, to To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...

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• pay a vessel's bottom, to

  To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.) ...

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• pay-serjeant, in the army

  A steady non-commissioned officer, selected by the captain of each company, to pay the subsistence d...

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• pay of the royal navy

  is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...

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• 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...

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