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Small
·vt To make little or less. II. Small ·adv Not loudly; faintly; timidly. III. Small ·noun <<Smallc...

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small
The narrow part of the tail of a whale, in front of the flukes. Also, that part of the anchor-shank ...

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Small Alley
South out of Great Eastcheap. In Candlewick Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1755). Used for stables in Stryp...

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to sing small
To be humbled, confounded, or abashed, to have little or nothing to say for one's-self. ...

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small clothes
Breeches: a gird at the affected delicacy of the present age; a suit being called coat, waistcoat, a...

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small fry
Young children; persons of little importance. Let there be any question to be decided, which Gen. J...

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small potatoes
An epithet applied to persons, and signifying mean, contemptible; as, 'He is very small potatoes.' S...

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sing small
To make a bullying boaster sing small, by lowering his arrogance. ...

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small-arms
The muskets, pistols, cutlasses, tomahawks, and boarding-pikes, in charge of the gunner, on board sh...

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small-helm
One of the principal results of sound seamanship is the proper trim of the vessel and the sail carri...

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small stuff
The term for spun-yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope, even for yarns. ...

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After-sails
·noun The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. ...

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after-sails
All those on the after-masts, as well as on the stays between the main and mizen masts. Their effect...

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bermuda sails
See 'mudian. ...

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fighting-sails
Those to which a ship is reduced when going into action; formerly implying the courses and top-sails...

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full sails
The sails well set, and filled by the wind. ...

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head-sails
A general name for all those sails which may be set on the fore-mast and bowsprit, jib, and flying j...

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light sails
All above the topgallant-sails; also the studding-sails and flying jib. Men-of-war carry topgallant-...

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low sails
The courses and close-reefed top-sails. ...

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spare sails
An obvious term. They should be pointed before stowing them away in the sail-room. ...

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square-sails
Colloquially applied to the courses; but the term may be used for any four-cornered sail extended to...

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studding-sails
Fine-weather sails set outside the square-sails; the term "scudding-sails" was formerly used. ♦ To...

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stun-sails
A corruption of studding-sails (which see). ...

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topgallant-sails
The third sails above the decks: they are set above the topsail-yards, in the same manner as the top...

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top-sails
The second sails above the decks, extending across the top-masts, by the topsail-yards above, and by...

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pomegranate, small native
n. another name forthe Native Orange. See orange. ...

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small-arm men
Those of the crew selected and trained to the use of small-arms. When they have effected their board...

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steer small, to
To steer well and within small compass, not dragging the tiller over from side to side. ...

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mend sails, to
To loose and skin them afresh on the yards. ...

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sails, to loose
To unfurl them, and let them hang loose to dry; or the movement preparatory to "making sail." ♦ To...

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suit of sails
The whole of the sails required to be bent for a vessel. ...

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barrel of small arms
The tube through which the bullets are discharged. In artillery the term belongs to the construction...

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fore-and-aft sails
Jibs, staysails, and gaff-sails; in fact, all sails which are not set to yards. They extend from the...

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hands reef top-sails!
The order to reef by all hands, instead of the watch, or watch and idlers. ...

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tan and tanned sails
Those steeped in oak-bark. ...

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great guns and small-arms
The general armament of a ship. Also, a slang term for the blowing and raining of heavy weather. ...

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blowing great guns and small arms
Heavy gales; a hurricane. ...

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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

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