roast-beef dress

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• Roast

  ·vt To banter severely. II. Roast ·adj Roasted; as, roast beef. III. Roast ·vi To undergo the proc...

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• to roast

  To arrest. I'll roast the dab; I'll arrest the rascal.--Also to jeer, ridicule, or banter. He stood ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Dress

  ·noun A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress. II. Dress ·noun Attention to apparel, or skill in ...

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• Dress

  1) Materials used. The earliest and simplest an apron of fig-leaves sewed together (Gen. 3:7); then ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• to dress

  To beat. I'll dress his hide neatly; I'll beat him soundly. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Dress

  This subject includes the following particulars: • Materials; • Color and decoration; • Name, for...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Beef

  ·noun Applied colloquially to human flesh. II. Beef ·adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. I...

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• beef

  To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef on us. Cant.--To be in a man's beef; to wound h...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef

  A figurative term for strength. ♦ More beef! more men on. ...

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• roast beef of old england

  A popular air, by which officers are summoned to the dinner-table. ...

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• prate roast

  A talkative boy. ...

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• Dress circle

  ·add. ·- A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally ...

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• Dress coat

  ·- A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the...

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• Dress goods

  ·- A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; — most commonly to fabrics of mixed ...

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• Top-dress

  ·vt To apply a surface dressing of manureto,as land. ...

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• Head-dress

  Not in common use among the Hebrews. It is first mentioned in Ex. 28:40 (A.V., "bonnets;" R.V., "hea...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• nugging dress

  An out-of-the-way old-fashioned dress, or rather a loose kind of dress, denoting a courtesan. ...

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• diving-dress

  India-rubber habiliments, the head-piece is of light metal fitted with strong glass eyes, and an att...

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• dress, to

  To place a fleet in organized order; also, to arrange men properly in ranks; to present a true conti...

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• Beef-witted

  ·noun Stupid; dull. ...

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• Bully beef

  ·add. ·v Pickled or canned beef. ...

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• Mess beef

  ·add. ·- Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest pl...

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• Beef Market

  In Leadenhall Market (P.C. 1732). ...

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• beef eater

  A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry VII. Their office was to stand near the bouffet, or cupb...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hung beef

  A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fello...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef-wood

  n. the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksia...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• albany beef

  Sturgeon; a fish which abounds in the Hudson river; so called by the people in the State of New York...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• martlemas-beef

  beef dried in the chimney like bacon, so called, because it is usual to kill the beef for this purpo...

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

• albany beef

  A name for the sturgeon of the Hudson River, where it is taken in quantity for commerce. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• beef-kid

  A mess utensil for carrying meat from the coppers. ...

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• jerked beef

  Charqui. Meat cured by drying in the open air, with or without salt. Also, the name of an American c...

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• roast and boiled

  A nick name for the Life Guards, who are mostly substantial house-keepers; and eat daily of roast an...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose