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Dry
·superl Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
II. Dry ·superl Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
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Row
·vi To use the oar; as, to row well.
II. Row ·adj & ·adv Rough; stern; angry.
III. Row ·noun The a...
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row
1) A disturbance; a term used by the students at Cambridge.
2) To row in the same boat; to be embar...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dry dock
·- ·see under <<Dock>>.
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Dry goods
·- A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, ·etc., — in distinc...
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Dry nurse
·- A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand;
— in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it...
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Dry-beat
·vt To beat severely.
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Dry-boned
·adj Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.
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Dry-eyed
·adj Not having tears in the eyes.
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Dry-fisted
·adj <<Niggardly>>.
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Dry-rub
·vt To rub and cleanse without wetting.
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Dry-rubbed
·Impf & ·p.p. of Dry-rub.
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Dry-rubbing
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Dry-rub.
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Dry-shod
·adj Without wetting the feet.
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Dry-stone
·adj Constructed of uncemented stone.
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Kiln-dry
·vt To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.
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Smoke-dry
·vt To dry by or in smoke.
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dry bob
A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dry boots
A sly humorous fellow.
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dry-blowing
n.
a Western Australian term ingold-mining.
1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 5:
«When wate...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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drop-dry
Completely water-tight.
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dry dock
An artificial receptacle for examining and repairing vessels. (See graving-dock.)
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dry ducking
Suspending a person by a rope a few yards above the surface of the water.
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dry flogging
Punishing over the clothes of a culprit.
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dry gales
Those storms which are accompanied with a clear sky, as the northers of the Gulf of Mexico, the harm...
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dry-rot
A disease destructive of timber, occasioned by a fungus, the Merulius lachrymans, which softens wood...
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dry rowing
"Row dry." Not to dash the spray with the blade of the oar in the faces of those in the stern-sheets...
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Christcross-row
·- The alphabet;
— formerly so called, either from the cross usually set before it, or from a super...
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Crisscross-row
·noun ·see Christcross-row.
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Row, John
(1568-1646)
Scottish ecclesiastical historian, b. at Perth, s. of John R., one of the Scottish Refo...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Bowyer Row
Between Ludgate on the west and Creed Lane east (S. 315).
First mention: "Ludgatstrete," commonly c...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Broker Row
See Blomfield Street.
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Budge Row
South-east from Watling Street to Cannon Street (P.O. Directory). In Walbrook and Cordwainer Wards.
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Bugge Row
See Budge Row.
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Buttonmould Row
In Dean's Court, St. Martin's le Grand (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in maps.
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Charlotte Row
South out of Mansion House Street, and the Poultry on the west side of the Mansion House. In Walbroo...
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Church Row
1) South out of Fenchurch Street, west of the church of St. Katherine Coleman to Fenchurch Street St...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cookes Row
Fitzstephen, writing in the reign of Henry II. c. 1174, says that there was in London on the banks o...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Cooper's Row
South out of Crutched Friars, at No. 17, to Trinity Square (P.O. Directory). Partly in Aldgate Ward,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Currier's Row
South out of Ireland Yard, to Green Dragon Court, west of and parallel to St. Andrew's Hill, Blackfr...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Curriers' Row
Named after the Curriers who lived here.
See London Wall; also Currier's Court, Blackfriars.
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Falcon Row
1) Out of Fleet Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
2) In Lothbury (Stry...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Galley Row
A quadrant in Tower Street, between Hart lane and Church lane, because Galley men dwelled there (S. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Garden Row
In the Inner Temple, within the Temple precincts (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the m...
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Goldsmith Row
The south side of East Harding Street from 9 Great New Street to Gunpowder Alley, Shoe Lane, was so ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Goldsmiths' Row
In Cheapside, on the south side, extending from Bread Street to the Cross in Cheap at Wood Street in...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Jackanape's Row
North out of St. Paul's Churchyard to Blow Bladder Street, in Farringdon Ward Within, at the western...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Manor Row
South-east out of Little Tower Hill to Upper East Smithfield (Horwood, 1799-Lockie, 1810).
Removed ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Middle Row
1) In Newgate Street, extending from Blow bladder street to Newgate Market (Leake, 1666). In Farring...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Moldmaker Row
See Mouldmaker's Row.
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Mouldmaker's Row
West out of Foster Lane and north from Round Court and west and north into Dean's Court. In St. Mart...
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Paternoster Row
West from Cheapside, at No. 4a, to Warwick Lane and Ave Maria Lane (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon W...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Pemberton Row
At the north-west corner of Gough Square to Trinity Church Passage, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.O....
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Pemberton's Row
See Trinity Church Passage.
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Postern Row
Between Great Tower Hill and Little Tower Hill (Strype, ed. 1720-O.S.25, in 1880).
Seems to have be...
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Rug Row
In Cloth Fair (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Russia Row
East out of Milk Street, at No. I, to Trump Street (P.O. Directory). In Cheap Ward and Cripplegate W...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Sandy's Row
South out of Artillery Lane, at No.32, to Middlesex Street. The western side in Bishopsgate Ward Wit...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Shoemaker's Row
See Duke Street, Aldgate.
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Sporyer Row
See Spurrier Row.
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Spurrier Row
At the end of Ave Mary Lane is Creed Lane, late so called, but sometime Spurrier Rowe, of Spurriers ...
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Stockfishmonger Row
The portion of Thames Street extending west from Fish Street Hill to Old Swan Lane was so called (S....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Union Row
On the east side of the Minories at its junction with Sparrow Corner and Tower Hill (P.O. Directory)...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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tow row
A grenadier. The tow row club; a club or society of the grenadier officers of the line.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to row up
To punish with words; to rebuke. It is an essential Westernism, and derived from the practice of mak...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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wind-row
to wind-row, to rake the mown grass into rows, called wind-rows. Norf. and Suff.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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rotten row
A line of old ships-in-ordinary in routine order.
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row, to
To propel a boat or vessel by oars or sweeps, which are managed in a direction nearly horizontal. (S...
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row-ports
Certain scuttles or square holes, formerly cut through the sides of the smaller vessels of war, near...
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dry-bulb thermometer
The readings of this instrument, when compared with those of a wet-bulb thermometer, indicate the am...
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dry holy-stoning
See holy-stone.
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high-and-dry
The situation of a ship or other vessel which is aground, so as to be seen dry upon the strand when ...
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Crown Office Row
On the north side of the Inner Temple Gardens, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory).
First ...
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Dyer's Court Row
On the west side of Dowgate Hill, south of Skinners' Hall (Rocque, 1746). In Dowgate Ward.
Called "...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Hart Row Street
Between Snow Hill and Newgate Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Former na...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Little Manor Row
East out of Manor Row, Little Tower Hill (Lockie, 1810).
Removed for the formation of St. Katherine...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Shoemaker Row, Lane
See Carter Lane.
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christ-cross row
The alphabet in a horn-book: called Christ-cross Row, from having, as an Irishman observed, Christ's...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Butcher Row, East Smithfield
South-east from Upper East Smithfield to Lower East Smithfield (Lockie's Topog. 1810-Elmes' Topog. D...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Castle Court, Budge Row
South out of Budge Row at No. 10 to Cloak Lane. In Vintry and Cordwainer Wards (W. Stow, 1720-Elmes,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Jews' Synagogue, Church Row
See Hambro' Synagogue.
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Shoemakers' Row, West Smithfield
Near the Bars. Mentioned in d'Urfey's "Ancient Song for Bartholomew Fair." Probably the name for a r...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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a hard row to hoe
A metaphor derived from hoeing corn, meaning a difficult matter or job to accomplish.
Gentlemen, I ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to row up salt river
is a common phrase, used generally to signify political defeat. The distance to which a party is row...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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thick-and-dry for weighing!
To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground.
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Butcher Row, Aldgate High Street
On the south side of Aldgate High Street, east from the Minories.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Chain Alley, Cooper's Row, Aldgate
See Gould Square.
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Church Row, Aldgate High Street
North out of Aldgate High Street, on the north and east sides of St. Botolph's Church and churchyard...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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row in the same boat, to
To be of similar principles.
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