A mistake; worse than no prize, or one liable to hamper the captors with heavy law expenses.
·noun Estimation; valuation. II. Prize ·noun A contest for a reward; competition. III. Prize ·noun...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A vessel captured at sea from the enemies of a state, or from pirates, either by a man-of-war or pri...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A slight cut or incision; a score. II. Scotch ·noun Collectively, the people of Scotland. II...
Though expiring with each war, are usually revived nearly in the same form. ...
A department of the admiralty court; (oyer et terminer) to hear and determine according to the law o...
Those taken upon the high seas, jure belli, from the enemy. ...
A return of all the persons on board, whether belonging to the ship, or supernumeraries, at the time...
The officer to whom a prize is given in charge to carry her into port. ...
The profits arising from the sale of prizes. It was divided equally by chart. 5 Hen. IV. ...
·noun A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. ...
·add. ·- The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accep...
·add. ·- One of a breed of small terriers with long, rough hair. ...
·noun <<Hopscotch>>. ...
Hall of the Corporation of the Scottish Hospital of His Majesty's Foundation in Blackfriars, 1676 (L...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
See Scott's Yard. ...
Lice. The headquarters of the Scotch greys: the head of a man full of large lice. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A bottle containing two quarts. ...
A halt and a resting on a stick, as practised by pedlars. ...
Brimstone and milk. ...
The itch. ...
A sober soaking rain; a Scotch mist will wet an Englishman to the skin. ...
Mizzle, or small soaking rain. ...
Ordained that the officers and sailors on board every ship and vessel of war shall have the sole pro...
A wench; also a fart. ...
to stop it from going backward. Lane. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose