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ring-tail
or Ring-tailed Opossum
n.
See pseudochirus and opossum.
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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...
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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 ...
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ring
A commercial measure of staves, or wood prepared for casks, and containing four shocks. Also, the ir...
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Ring
The ring was regarded as an indispensable article of a Hebrew's attire, inasmuch as it contained his...
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Tail
·noun ·see <<Tailing>>, ·noun, 5.
II. Tail ·noun Limitation; abridgment.
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tail
A prostitute. Also, a sword.
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tail
v. tr.
to herd and tend sheep or cattle:lit. to follow close behind the tail.
1844. `Port Phillip ...
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tail
A rope spliced into the strop or round of any block, leaving a long end for making fast to rigging, ...
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Bearing ring
·add. ·- In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functi...
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Piston ring
·add. ·- A spring packing ring, or any of several such rings, for a piston.
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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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Ring winding
·add. ·- Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately ...
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Ring-necked
·adj Having a well defined ring of color around the neck.
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Ring-streaked
·adj Having circular streaks or lines on the body; as, ring-streaked goats.
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Ring-tailed
·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
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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...
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Whiskey, Ring
·add. ·- A conspiracy of distillers and government officials during the administration of President ...
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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...
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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...
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ring-eye
n.
one of the many names for thebirds of the genus Zosterops (q.v.).
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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...
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fly ring
laughing, fleering, or sneering. N.
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yold-ring
a yello-whammer. N.
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anchor-ring
Formerly the great ring welded into the hole for it. Recent anchors have Jew's-harp shackles, easily...
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base-ring
In guns of cast-metal, the flat moulding round the breech at that part where the longitudinal surfac...
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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...
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muzzle-ring
That which encompassed and strengthened the muzzle or mouth of a cannon; now disused.
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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...
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ring-dogs
Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...
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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...
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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...
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trunnion-ring
The ring round a cannon next before the trunnions, now disused.
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Boat-tail
·noun A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
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Box tail
·add. ·- In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite.
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Cat's-tail
·noun ·see <<Timothy>>, Cat-tail, <<Cirrus>>.
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Cat-tail
·noun A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having i...
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Cross-tail
·noun A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
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Daggle-tail
·noun A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
II. Daggle-tail ·adj ·Alt. of Daggle-tailed.
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Drabble-tail
·noun A draggle-tail; a slattern.
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Draggle-tail
·noun A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
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Dragon's tail
·- ·see Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, ·etc., under <<Dragon>>.
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Fish-tail
·adj Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish.
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Hare's-tail
·noun A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). ·see Cotton grass, under <<Cotton>>.
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Lion's tail
·- A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus);
— so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spike...
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Lizard's tail
·- A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flower...
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Mare's-tail
·noun An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls.
II. Mar...
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Racket-tail
·noun Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail fea...
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Rat-tail
·noun Any fish of the genus Macrurus. ·see <<Grenadier>>, 2.
II. Rat-tail ·noun The California chim...
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Split-tail
·noun The pintail duck.
II. Split-tail ·noun A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus)...
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Tail-bay
·noun The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
II. Tail-bay ·noun One of the joists which re...
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Tail-water
·noun Water in a tailrace.
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Teeter-tail
·noun The spotted sandpiper. ·see the Note under <<Sandpiper>>.
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Triple-tail
·noun An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common ...
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bob tail
A lewd woman, or one that plays with her tail; also an impotent man, or an eunuch. Tag, rag, and bob...
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dove-tail
A species of regular answer, which fits into the subject, like the contrivance whence it takes its n...
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plug tail
A man's penis.
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swish tail
A pheasant; so called by the persons who sell game for the poachers.
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tickle tail
A rod, or schoolmaster. A man's penis.
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brown-tail
n.
bird-name for the TasmanianTit. See Tit.
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii, pl. 54...
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cat's tail
n.
See wonga.
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jolly-tail
n.
a Tasmanian name for the largervariety of the fish Galaxias attenuatus, Jenyns, andother species...
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silver-tail
n.
a bush term for a «swell» :a man who goes to the manager's house, not to the men's hut.See Hut.
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whip-tail
n.
1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation.
2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...
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yellow-tail
n.
The name is given in Victoriato the fish Caranx trachurus, Cuv. and Val.; the Horse-Mackerel (q....
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club-tail
(Genus alosa.) The common shad, the fatter portion of which have the tail swollen, and on the coast ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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swingle-tail
(Genus, carcharias. Cuvier.) The popular name for the Thresher Shark, from the use it makes of its l...
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tail-race
The water course leading from a mill after it has passed the water-wheel.
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cawsie-tail
a dunce. N. Rather CAWFE-TAIL, i. e. calf-tail. Lane.
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tail-ends
the refuse of wheat or other corn, not saleable in the market, but kept by farmers for their own con...
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cat's-tail
The inner part of the cat-head, that fays down upon the cat-beam.
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cross-tail
In a steam-engine, is of the same form as the cylinder cross-head: it has iron straps catching the p...
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culver-tail
The fastenings of a ship's carlings into the beams.
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dog's tail
A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear.
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dove-tail
The fastening or letting in of one timber into another by a dove-tailed end and score, so that they ...
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monkey-tail
A lever for training a carronade.
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pig-tail
The common twisted tobacco for chewing.
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pin-tail
The Anas acuta, a species of duck with a long pointed tail. Also, in artillery, the iron pin on the ...
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rat's-tail
The tapering end of a rope. Also, the round tapered file for enlarging holes in metal.
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swallow's tail
In fortification, an old form of outwork, having its front broken into a re-entering angle, and its ...
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tail-block
A rope-stropped block, having an end of rope attached to it as a tail, by which it may be fastened t...
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tail on
, or tally on
The order to clap on to a rope.
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tail-race
The water which leaves the paddles of a steam-boat. Also, the water-course of a mill beyond the wate...
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tail-tackle
A luff-tackle purchase, with a hook in the end of the single block, and a tail to the upper end of t...
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tail up
When a whale dives perpendicularly. In this case whalers expect the fish to rise near the same spot....
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tail-valve
A valve in the air-pump at the opposite side from the condenser, and connected with the latter by a ...
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yellow-tail
A well-known tropical fish, often in company with whip-rays; it is about 4 feet long, with a great h...
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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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ring the changes
When a person receives silver in change to shift some good shillings and put bad ones in their place...
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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...
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bang-tail muster
See quotation.
1887. W. S. S. Tyrwhitt, `The New Churn in the Queensland Bush,'p. 61:
«Every third...
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kangaroo-tail soup
n.
soup made from thekangaroo-tail.
1820. W. C. Wentworth, `Description of New South Wales,'p. 58:...
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mersey jolly-tail
n.
See jolly-tail.
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pieman jolly-tail
n. See jolly-tail.
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rat-tail grass
n.
name given to – – (1) Ischaemum laxum, R. Br., N.O. Gramineae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Nati...
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cat-tail grass
Herds grass, or timothy.
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dove-tail plates
Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...
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tail of a gale
The latter part of a gale, when its violence is dying out.
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to get the wrong pig by the tail
is to make a mistake in selecting a person for any object. If a charge is made against a man, who on...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.