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Salt
·noun Marshes flooded by the tide.
II. Salt ·noun Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
III. Salt ·noun Fi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Salt
Used to season food (Job 6:6), and mixed with the fodder of cattle (Isa. 30:24, "clean;" in marg. of...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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salt
Lecherous. A salt bitch: a bitch at heat, or proud bitch. Salt eel; a rope's end, used to correct bo...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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salt
, or old salt.
A weather-beaten sailor. One of the old seamen who not only have known but have fel...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Salt
Indispensable as salt is to ourselves, it was even more so to the Hebrews, being to them not only an...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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box
bōx, bōcis, m., = βώξ, βόαξ, a sea-fish , otherwise unknown, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 145. In Paul. ex ...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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Box
·noun A small country house.
II. Box ·vt To inclose in a box.
III. Box ·noun The quantity that a b...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Box
For holding oil or perfumery (Mark 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. The Hebrew word (...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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box
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Box-tree
Box-gum
,n.
The name is applied to many Eucalypts, and toa few trees of the genus Tr...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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box
The space between the back-board and the stern-post of a boat, where the coxswain sits.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bay salt
·- Salt which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the hea...
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Cat-salt
·noun A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.
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Epsom salt
·- Sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities;
— originally prepared by boiling down the miner...
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Glauber's salt
·- ·Alt. of Glauber's salts.
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Hair-salt
·noun A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.
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Monsel's salt
·- A basic sulphate of iron;
— so named from Monsel, a Frenchman.
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Salt rheum
·- A popular name, ·esp. in the United States, for various cutaneous eruptions, particularly for tho...
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Salt-green
·adj Sea-green in color.
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Sea salt
·- Common salt, obtained from sea water by evaporation.
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Salt Sea
(Josh. 3:16). See DEAD [545]SEA.
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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salt-bush
n. and adj.
the wild alkalineherb or shrub, growing on the interior plains of Australia,on which ho...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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salt-lick
A saline spring, where animals resort for drink. See lick.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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salt lick
(LICK)
1) In America, a place where the beasts of the forest lick for salt at salt springs. Webster...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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salt-eel
A rope's-end cut from the piece for starting the homo delinquens.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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salt-junk
Navy salt beef. (See junk.)
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salt-pits
Reservoirs to contain sea-water for the purpose of making salt.
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Salt Sea
Or Dead Sea
[Sea, The Salt, THE SALT]
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Axle box
·- The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.
II. Axle box ·- A bushing in the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Box kite
·add. ·- A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rec...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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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Box-iron
·noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
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Ditty-box
·noun A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, ·etc.
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Drudging box
·- ·see Dredging box.
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Junction box
·add. ·- A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and wher...
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Pepper box
·add. ·noun A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College,...
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Pouchet box
·- ·see Pouncet box.
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Pouncet box
·- A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes.
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Touch-box
·noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle t...
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Vanity box
·add. ·- A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Box-tree
(Heb. teashshur), mentioned in Isa. 60:13; 41:19, was, according to some, a species of cedar growing...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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black box
A lawyer. Cant.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bone box
The mouth. Shut your bone box; shut your mouth.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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butter box
A Dutchman, from the great quantity of butter eaten by the people of that country.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chatter box
One whose tongue runs twelve score to the dozen, a chattering man or woman.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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eternity box
A coffin.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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juggler's box
The engine for burning culprits in the hand. CANT.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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knowledge box
The head.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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prattling box
The pulpit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sauce box
A term of familiar raillery, signifying a bold or forward person.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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badger-box
n.
slang name for a roughly-constructed dwelling.
1875. `Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasma...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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match-box
See bean, Queensland
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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box-wood
n.
a New Zealand wood, Olealanceolata, Hook., N.O. Jasminea (Maori name, Maire). Used by the `Welli...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dwarf-box
n.
Eucalyptus microtheca,F. v. M. See Box. This tree has also many other names.See Maiden's `Useful...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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native box
n.
See box.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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poplar-box
n.
See box.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bad box
To be in a bad box, is to be in a bad predicament.
I began to be afraid now I'd got into rather a b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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chatter-box
One whose tongue runs incessantly.--Todd.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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butter-box
A name given to the brig-traders of lumpy form, from London, Bristol, and other English ports. A can...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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cartouch-box
The accoutrement which contains the musket-cartridges: now generally called a pouch.
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cartridge-box
A cylindrical wooden box with a lid sliding upon a handle of small rope, just containing one cartrid...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ditty-box
A small caddy for holding a seaman's stock of valuables.
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fire-box
A space crossing the whole front of the boiler over the furnace doors, opposite the smoke-box.
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hawse-box
, or naval hood.
Pieces of plank bolted outside round each of the hawse-holes, to support the proj...
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limber-box
Synonymous with limber-trunk.
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paddle-box
The frame of wood which encircles the upper part of the paddle-wheel.
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smoke-box
A part which crosses the whole front of a marine boiler, over the furnace doors; or that part betwee...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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stuffing-box
A contrivance on the top of a steam cylinder-cover, packed with hemp, and kept well soaked with tall...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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touch-box
The receptacle for lighted tinder when match-locks were used.
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Salt, Valley of
A place where it is said David smote the Syrians (2 Sam. 8:13). This valley (the' Arabah) is between...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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salt-water vegetables
In New York, a cant term for oysters and clams.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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boll of salt
two bushels. Northum.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Salt, City Of
the fifth of the six cities of Judah which lay in the "wilderness." (Joshua 15:62) Mr. Robinson expr...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Salt, Valley Of
a valley in which occurred two memorable victories of the Israelite arms:
• That of David over the ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Sea, The Salt
the usual and perhaps the most ancient name for the remarkable lake which to the western world is no...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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to box the compass
To say or repeat the mariner's compass, not only backwards or forwards, but also to be able to answe...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to box the jesuit, and get cock roaches
A sea term for masturbation; a crime, it is said, much practised by the reverend fathers of that soc...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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match-box bean
n.
another name for the ripehard seed of the Queensland Bean, Entadascandens, Benth., N.O. Legumino...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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paddle-box boats
Boats made to fit the paddle-box rim, stowed bottom upwards on each box.
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Salt, The city of
One of the cities of Judah (Josh. 15:62), probably in the Valley of Salt, at the southern end of the...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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old-man salt-bush
Atriplex nummularium,Lindl. See Salt-Bush.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 118:
«On...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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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salt-cat, or gate
a cake of salt used to decoy pigeons. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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jack in a box
A sharper, or cheat. A child in the mother's womb.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Jack in a Box
i.q. Hair-trigger (q.v.).
1854. `The Home Companion,' p. 554:
«When previously mentioning the eleg...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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box the compass, to
Not only to repeat the names of the thirty-two points in order and backwards, but also to be able to...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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jack in the box
A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms th...
The Sailor's Word-Book