soldier

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• Soldier

  ·vi To serve as a soldier. II. Soldier ·noun The red or cuckoo gurnard (Trigla pini.). III. Soldie...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• soldier

  A red herring. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• soldier

  or Soldier-Ant n. «one ofthat section of a colony of some kinds of ants which does thefighting, ta...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Water soldier

  ·- An aquatic European plant (Stratiotes aloides) with bayonet-shaped leaves. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• parish soldier

  A jeering name for a militiaman: from substitutes being frequently hired by the parish from which on...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• poor-soldier

  or Soldier-Bird (q.v.), n. another name for the Friar-bird (q.v.),and so named from its cry. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• poor soldier

  See soldier-birdI. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• soldier-bird

  I. or Poor Soldier,or Old-Soldier bird n. anothername for the Friar-bird (q.v.). 1859. D. Bunce,...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• soldier-crab

  A name for the hermit-crab (which see). ...

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• old-soldier bird

  See soldier-birdI. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris