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Smart
·vt To cause a smart in. II. Smart ·vi Vigorous; sharp; severe. III. Smart ·vi Efficient; vigorous...

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smart
Spruce, fine: as smart as a carrot new scraped. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
smart
Quick; active; intelligent. 'He is a smart business man.' The word appears to be not now used in thi...

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smart
Ready, active, and intelligent. ...

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Ticket
·v A little note or notice. II. Ticket ·v A tradesman's bill or account. III. Ticket ·v A label to...

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ticket
An official warrant of discharge, so that a heavy penalty attaches to the loss of any of the blank o...

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Smart, Christopher
(1722-1771) Poet, s. of the steward to Lord Vane, was b. at Shipbourne, Kent, and by the bounty of ...

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smart money
Money allowed to soldiers or sailors for the loss of a limb, or other hurt received in the service. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
smart chance
1) A good opportunity; a fair chance. A vulgar expression. He has a smart chance of getting a bette...

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smart sprinkle
A good deal; a good many. Used in the interior of the Western States. In answer to some query about...

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smart-money
A pension given to a wounded man, according to the extent of the injury and his rank. Thus a lieuten...

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Commutation ticket
·add. ·- A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance...

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Tyburn ticket
·- A certificate given to one who prosecutes a felon to conviction, exempting him from certain paris...

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Ticket Porters
See Tackle House and Ticket Porters. ...

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split ticket
When two or more important offices are to be filled at the same time, the wire-pullers of each party...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
walking ticket
Orders to leave; a dismissal. When a person is appointed to a public office, or receives a commissio...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
branded ticket
A discharge given to an infamous man, on which his character is written, and the reason he is turned...

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cancelled ticket
One rendered useless by some subsequent arrangement or clerk's error. In either case the word "cance...

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contract ticket
A printed form of agreement with every passenger in a passenger-ship, prescribed by the legislature....

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dead-ticket
Persons dying on board, those discharged from the service, and all officers promoted, are cleared fr...

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discharge-ticket
On all foreign stations men are discharged by foreign remove-tickets, and in other cases by dead, si...

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leave-ticket
See liberty-ticket. ...

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liberty-ticket
A document specifying the date and extent of the leave granted to a seaman or marine proceeding on h...

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sick-ticket
A document given to an officer, seaman, or marine, when sent to an hospital, certified by the signin...

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ticket-book
A register for accounting for all tickets and certificates received and used. ...

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unserviceable ticket
This is made out in the same manner, and requires the same notations, as a sick-ticket (which see), ...

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foreign remove-ticket
A document for discharging men from one ship to another on foreign stations: it is drawn up in the s...

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Tackle House and Ticket Porters
This Fellowship possessed the right of porterage of all unmeasurable goods, that of measureable good...

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