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Rough
·noun Produced offhand. II. Rough ·noun Boisterous weather. III. Rough ·adv In a rough manner; rud...

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books
Cards to play with. To plant the books; to place the cards in the pack in an unfair manner. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
rough
To lie rough; to lie all night in one's clothes: called also roughing it. Likewise to sleep on the b...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
rough
or Roughy, or Ruffy,or Ruffie n. a Victorian fish, Arripisgeorgianus, Cuv. and Val., family Percid...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
books
(See ship's books.) Official documents. ...

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Rough-footed
·adj Feather-footed; as, a rough-footed dove. ...

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Rough-grained
·adj Having a rough grain or fiber; hence, figuratively, having coarse traits of character; not poli...

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Rough-legged
·adj Having the legs covered with feathers; — said of a bird. ...

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Book's Rents
In Garter Court, Barbican, at No. 3, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831). "Carte...

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devil's books
Cards. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
rough music
Saucepans, frying-paps, poker and tongs, marrow-bones and cleavers, bulls horns, &c. beaten upon and...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
rough fig
n. See under fig-tree. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
expense books
Accounts of the expenditure of the warrant officer's stores, attested by the signing officers. ...

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rough nauts
See rough-knots ...

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rough-knots
, or rough nauts. Unsophisticated seamen. ...

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rough music
Rolling shot about on the lower deck, and other discordant noises, when seamen are discontented, but...

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rough-spars
Cut timber before being worked into masts, &c. ...

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rough-tree
An unfinished spar: also a name given in merchant ships to any mast, or other spar above the ship's ...

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ship's books
The roll of the crew, containing every particular in relation to entry, former ships, &c. ...

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Chronicles, Books of
The two books were originally one. They bore the title in the Massoretic Hebrew Dibre hayyamim, i.e....

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Samuel, Books of
The LXX. translators regarded the books of Samuel and of Kings as forming one continuous history, wh...

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rough-leaved fig
n. See under fig-tree. ...

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
rough-tree timber
Upright pieces of timber placed at intervals along the side of a vessel, to support the rough-tree. ...

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splitting the books
The making of a new complete-book after payment, in which the dead, run, or discharged men are omitt...

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Maccabees, Books Of
Four books which bear the common title of "Maccabees" are found in some MSS. of the LXX. Two of thes...

William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Samuel, Books Of
are not separated from each other in the Hebrew MSS., and, from a critical point of view, must be re...

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Kings, The Books of
The two books of Kings formed originally but one book in the Hebrew Scriptures. The present division...

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Maccabees, Books of the
There were originally five books of the Maccabees. The first contains a history of the war of indepe...

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Chronicles, First And Second Books Of
the name originally given to the record made by the appointed historiographers in the kingdoms of Is...

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Kings, First And Second Books Of
originally only one book in the Hebrew canon, from in the LXX. and the Vulgate the third and fourth ...

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