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powder monkey
A boy on board a ship of war, whose business is to fetch powder from the magazine. ...

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Monkey
·noun Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs. II. Monkey ·noun A small trading vessel of the ...

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monkey
To suck the monkey; to suck or draw wine, or any other liquor, privately out of a cask, by means of ...

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monkey
A machine composed of a long pig of iron, traversing in a groove, which is raised by a pulley, and l...

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Powder
·vt To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. II. Powder ·vi To use powder on the hair or skin; as, ...

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powder
See gunpowder. ...

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Monkey-bread
·noun The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. ·see <<Adansonia>>. ...

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Monkey-cup
·noun ·see <<Nepenthes>>. ...

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Monkey-pot
·noun The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for thei...

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Water monkey
·add. ·- A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation. ...

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monkey-bear
or Monkey n. i.q. Native Bear. See Bear. 1853. C. St. Julian and E. K. Silvester, `TheProductions...

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monkey-shaft
n. «A shaft rising from a lowerto a higher level (as a rule perpendicularly), and differingfrom a b...

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monkey-block
A small single block strapped with a swivel. Also, those nailed on the topsail-yards of some merchan...

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monkey-boat
A half-decked boat above-bridge on the Thames. ...

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monkey-jacket
A warm jacket for night-watches, &c. ...

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monkey-pump
Straws or quills for sucking the liquid from a cask, through a gimlet-hole made for the purpose a pr...

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monkey-spars
Reduced masts and yards for a vessel devoted to the instruction and exercise of boys. ...

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monkey-tail
A lever for training a carronade. ...

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Atlas powder
·add. ·- A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and ma...

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Dover's Powder
·- A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in Englan...

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Goa powder
·- A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (A...

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James's powder
·- Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; — called also fever powder...

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Powder-posted
·adj Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. ·see Dry rot, under <<Dry>>. ...

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Smokeless powder
·add. ·- A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke. ...

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Vulcan powder
·add. ·- A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin (30 parts), sodium nitrate (52.5), charcoal (10.5), an...

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corned powder
Powder granulated from the mill-cakes and sifted. ...

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corryne powder
Corn-powder, a fine kind of gunpowder. ...

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cylinder powder
That made upon the improved method of charring the wood to be used as charcoal in iron cylinders. Al...

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filling powder
Taking gunpowder from the casks to fill cartridges, when lights and fires should be extinguished. ...

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glazed powder
Gunpowder of which the grains, by friction against one another in a barrel worked for the purpose, h...

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grained powder
That corned or reduced into grains from the cakes, and distinguished from mealed powder, as employed...

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morsing powder
An old term for priming powder. ...

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pellet-powder
Has its grains much larger and smoother, and is intended to act more gradually than service gunpowde...

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pit-powder
That made with charcoal which has been burned in pits, not in cylinders. ...

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powder, to
To salt meat slightly; as Falstaff says, "If thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder m...

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powder-bags
Leathern bags containing from 20 to 40 lbs. of powder; substituted for petards at the instance of Lo...

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powder-hoy
An ordnance vessel expressly fitted to convey powder from the land magazine to a ship; it invariably...

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powder-magazine
The prepared space allotted for the powder on board ship. ...

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powder-vessel
A ship used as a floating magazine. ...

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serpentine powder
An old term for a peculiar granulated gunpowder. ...

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bleeding the monkey
The monkey is a tall pyramidal kid or bucket, which conveys the grog from the grog-tub to the mess s...

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Gonne Powder House
Messuage in parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, "the Gonne Powder House," 36 H. VIII. 1544 (L...

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corns of powder
The small grains that gunpowder consists of. The powder reduced for fire-works, quill-tubes, &c.; so...

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suck the monkey, to
To rob the grog-can. (See monkey.) ...

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