purser's dip

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• Dip

  ·vi To dip snuff. II. Dip ·noun A dipped candle. III. Dip ·vt To plunge or engage thoroughly in an...

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• dip

  To dip for a wig. Formerly, in Middle Row, Holborn, wigs of different sorts were, it is said, put in...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dip

  butter, sugar, and verjuice, used as sauce to pudding, and particularly to barm dumplins. North. ...

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

• dip

  The inclination of the magnetic needle towards the earth. (See dipping-needle.) Also, the smallest c...

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• purser's pump

  A bassoon: from its likeness to a syphon, called a purser's pump. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• purser's grins

  Sneers. ...

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• purser's name

  An assumed one. During the war, when pressed men caught at every opportunity to desert, they adopted...

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• purser's pound

  The weight formerly used in the navy, by which the purser retained an eighth for waste, and the men ...

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• purser's shirt

  "Like a purser's shirt on a handspike;" a comparison for clothes fitting loosely. ...

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• purser's steward

  The official who superintended and noted down the exact quantity and species of provisions issued to...

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• purser's stocking

  A slop article, which stretched to any amount put into it. (See show a leg!.) ...

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• to dip snuff

  A mode of taking tobacco, practised by women in some parts of the United States, and particularly at...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• sweet-dip

  butter, sugar, and verjuice, used as sauce to pudding, and particularly to barm dumplins. North. ...

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

• dip, to

  To lower. An object is said to be dipping when by refraction it is visible just above the horizon. A...

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• dip-sector

  An ingenious instrument for measuring the true dip of the horizon, invented by Dr. Wollaston, and ve...

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• dip of the horizon

  The angle contained between the sensible and apparent horizons, the angular point being the eye of t...

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• half-laughs and purser's grins

  Hypocritical and satirical sneers. ...

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