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Rule
·adj Conduct in general; behavior. II. Rule ·adj Uniform or established course of things. III. Rul...

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Staff
·noun The round of a ladder. II. Staff ·noun An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch. III. ...

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staff
'To have the staff in one's own hand,' is to keep possession of one's own property, and, consequentl...

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staff
A light pole erected in different parts of a ship, whereon to hoist and display the colours; as, the...

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Phase rule
·add. ·- A generalization with regard to systems of chemical equilibrium, discovered by Prof. J. Wil...

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Rule-monger
·noun A stickler for rules; a slave of <<Rules>>. ...

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Cross-staff
·noun A surveyor's instrument for measuring offsets. II. Cross-staff ·noun An instrument formerly u...

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Rock staff
·vi An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge. ...

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bauk-staff
a quarter-staff. N. ...

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gib-staff
1) a hook-stick, pronounced [GHIB]. York. 2) a quarter-staff. N. ...

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grain-staff
a quarter -staff, with a short pair of tines at the end, called grains. S. ...

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almacantars staff
An instrument formerly used at sea for observing the sun's amplitude, formed of an arc of about 15 d...

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back-staff
A name formerly given to a peculiar sea-quadrant, because the back of the observer was turned toward...

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cross-staff
See fore-staff. ...

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david's-staff
A kind of quadrant formerly used in navigation. ...

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dwang-staff
This is otherwise the wrain-staff (which see). ...

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flag-staff
In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...

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fore-staff
An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies. The fore-staff, call...

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futtock-staff
A short piece of wood or iron, seized across the upper part of the shrouds at equal distances, to wh...

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jack-staff
A short staff raised at the bowsprit-cap, upon which the union-jack is hoisted. ...

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jacob's staff
, or cross-staff. A mathematical instrument to take altitudes, consisting of a brass circle, divid...

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staff-captain
A designation conferred in 1863 upon masters of the fleet. ...

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staff-commanders
A designation conferred in 1863 on masters of fifteen years' seniority. ...

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staff-officer
On the general staff of the army, or of a combined force. See staff. ...

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whip-staff
See whipII ...

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wrain-staff
A stout billet of tough wood, tapered at its ends, so as to go into the ring of the wrain-bolt, to m...

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rule of thumb
That rule suggested by a practical rather than a scientific knowledge. In common matters it means to...

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Ragged Staff Alley
In Fleet Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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regimental staff-officers
The surgeon, adjutant, paymaster, assistant-surgeon, and quarter-master of each regiment. ...

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The Bear and Ragged Staff
A tenement in the parish of St. John the Evangelist in Watling Street near St. Paul's Church now kno...

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Bear and Ragged Staff Alley
East out of Red Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, ed. 1720). The si...

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Bear and Ragged Staff Inn, West Smithfield
See Bear Inn. ...

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