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dogs
To go to the dogs. To go to destruction; to be ruined, destroyed, or devoured.--Johnson.
Had whol...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dogs
The last supports knocked away at the launching of a ship.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ring
·noun A circular group of persons.
II. Ring ·vi To rise in the air spirally.
III. Ring ·vi To prac...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ring
Used as an ornament to decorate the fingers, arms, wrists, and also the ears and the nose. Rings wer...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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ring
Money procured by begging: beggars so called it from its ringing when thrown to them. Also a circle ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ring
v. tr.
1) To cut the bark of a treeround the trunk so as to kill it. The word is common in thesame ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ring
A commercial measure of staves, or wood prepared for casks, and containing four shocks. Also, the ir...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ring
The ring was regarded as an indispensable article of a Hebrew's attire, inasmuch as it contained his...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Dog's-bane
·noun ·see <<Dogbane>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's-ear
·noun The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's-tongue
·noun Hound's-tongue.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's Head
In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's portion
A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer o...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's rig
To copulate till you are tired, and then turn tail to it.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's soup
Rain water.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's wife
Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's tongue
n.
name given to the plant Cynoglossum suaveolens, R. Br., N.O. Asperifoliae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dog's bane
(Apocynum androsæmifolium.) The common name of a shrub, which grows along the road-side and borders ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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dog's tail
A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fog-dogs
Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sling-dogs
In timber lifting, a dog is an iron implement with a fang at one end, and an eye at the other, in wh...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bearing ring
·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Piston ring
·add. ·- A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ring armature
·add. ·- An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ring winding
·add. ·- Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ring-necked
·adj Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ring-streaked
·adj Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ring-tailed
·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Vortex ring
·add. ·- A ring-shaped mass of moving fluid which, by virtue of its motion of rotation around an axi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Whiskey, Ring
·add. ·- A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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carvel's ring
The private parts of a woman. Ham Carvel, a jealous old doctor, being in bed with his wife, dreamed ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ring-bark
v. tr.
Same meaning as Ring(1).
1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 204:
«The selector in a timb...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ring-dollar
n.
See quotation;and see Dump and Holy Dollar.
1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' c. iii. p. 131:
«T...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ring-eye
n.
one of the many names for thebirds of the genus Zosterops (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ring-neck
n.
the equivalent of Jackaroo (q.v.). A term used in the back blocks in reference to thewhite colla...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ring-tail
or Ring-tailed Opossum
n.
See pseudochirus and opossum.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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fly ring
laughing, fleering, or sneering. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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yold-ring
a yello-whammer. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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anchor-ring
Formerly the great ring welded into the hole for it. Recent anchors have Jew's-harp shackles, easily...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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base-ring
In guns of cast-metal, the flat moulding round the breech at that part where the longitudinal surfac...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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cornish ring
The astragal of the muzzle or neck of a gun; it is the next ring from the mouth backwards. (Now disu...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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muzzle-ring
That which encompassed and strengthened the muzzle or mouth of a cannon; now disused.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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ring-bolt
An iron bolt with an eye at one end, wherein is fitted a circular ring. They are more particularly u...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ring-ropes
Ropes rove through the ring of the anchor, to haul the cable through it, in order to bend or make it...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ring-stopper
A long piece of rope secured to an after ring-bolt, and the loop embracing the cable through the nex...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ring-tail
A kind of studding-sail hoisted beyond the after edge of those sails which are extended by a gaff an...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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trunnion-ring
The ring round a cannon next before the trunnions, now disused.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dog's-tail grass
·noun A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is we...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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to ring a peal
To scold; chiefly applied to women. His wife rung him a fine peal!
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ring the changes
When a person receives silver in change to shift some good shillings and put bad ones in their place...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dog's Head in the Pot
A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dog's Head and Pottage-Pot Court
Out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.