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• Relief

  ·noun The elevations and surface undulations of a country. II. Relief ·noun The height to which wor...

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• relief

  The change of watches. Also, the person relieving a particular station. Also, a fresh detachment of ...

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• Quick

  ·noun Quitch grass. II. Quick ·superl Pregnant; with child. III. Quick ·superl Fresh; bracing; sha...

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• Bas-relief

  ·noun Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; ...

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• Bass-relief

  ·noun Some as Bas-relief. ...

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• bad-relief

  One who turns out sluggishly to relieve the watch on deck. (See one-bell.) ...

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• Double-quick

  ·noun Double-quick time, step, or march. II. Double-quick ·vi & ·vt To move, or cause to move, in d...

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• Quick-scented

  ·adj Acute of smell. ...

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• Quick-sighted

  ·adj Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern. ...

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• Quick-witted

  ·adj Having ready wit. ...

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• Quick-wittedness

  ·noun Readiness of wit. ...

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• quick-march

  , or quick-step. The ordinary pace is 3-1/4 miles to the hour, or 110 paces (275) feet to the minu...

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• quick match

  Used as a train to any charge to be fired rapidly, is made of cotton threads treated with a composit...

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• quick-sand

  A fine-grained loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight as soon as the water retreats f...

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• quick saver

  A span formerly used to prevent the courses from bellying too much when off the wind. ...

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• quick-step

  See quick-march. ...

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• quick-work

  Generally signifies all that part of a ship which is under water when she is laden; it is also appli...

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• Quick Apple Alley

  In Bishopsgate Street Without (W. Stow, 1722-Dodsley, 1761). Not named in the maps. ...

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• quick and nimble

  More like a bear than a squirrel. Jeeringly said to any one moving sluggishly on a business or erran...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• kiss-me-quick

  A homemade quilted bonnet which does not extend beyond the face. They are chiefly used to cover the ...

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• City Union Relief Registration Office

  On the western side of Bartholomew Close, at No. 61, south of the Church of St. Bartholomew the Grea...

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