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

A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
to sing small
To be humbled, confounded, or abashed, to have little or nothing to say for one's-self. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
small clothes
Breeches: a gird at the affected delicacy of the present age; a suit being called coat, waistcoat, a...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
small fry
Young children; persons of little importance. Let there be any question to be decided, which Gen. J...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
small potatoes
An epithet applied to persons, and signifying mean, contemptible; as, 'He is very small potatoes.' S...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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 sails
Top-gallant-studding-sails and the kites. ...

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

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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barrel of small arms
The tube through which the bullets are discharged. In artillery the term belongs to the construction...

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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...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose