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Ticket
·v A little note or notice.
II. Ticket ·v A tradesman's bill or account.
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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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Book
·noun A composition, written or printed; a treatise.
II. Book ·vt To enter, write, or register in a...
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Book
This word has a comprehensive meaning in Scripture. In the Old Testament it is the rendering of the ...
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book
A commercial term for a peculiar packing of muslin, bast, and other stuffs.
♦ Brought to book, mad...
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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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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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.
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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.
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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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smart-ticket
The certificate from a captain and surgeon, by which only the smart-money is obtainable.
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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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Absey-book
·noun An A-B-C book; a primer.
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Account book
·- A book in which accounts are kept.
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Bank book
·- A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the de...
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Bill book
·- A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, ·etc., thus sho...
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Black book
·- Any book which treats of necromancy.
II. Black book ·- A book of admiralty law, of the highest a...
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Block book
·- A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.
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Blue book
·- The United States official "Biennial Register.".
II. Blue book ·- A parliamentary publication, s...
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Book muslin
·- A kind of muslin used for the covers of books.
II. Book muslin ·- A kind of thin white muslin fo...
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Book-learned
·adj Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books.
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Dope-book
·add. ·noun A chart of previous performances, ·etc., of race horses.
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News-book
·noun A <<Newspaper>>.
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Prompt-book
·noun The book used by a prompter of a theater.
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Text-book
·noun A book with wide spaces between the lines, to give room for notes.
II. Text-book ·noun A volu...
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Yellow Book
·add. ·- In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.
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black book
He is down in the black book, i.e. has a stain in his character. A black book is keep in most regime...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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book-keeper
One who never returns borrowed books. Out of one's books; out of one's fevor. Out of his books; out ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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black-book
A book was kept in the English monasteries, during the reign of Henry VIII., in which details of the...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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blue-book
A printed book containing the names of all the persons holding office under the Government of the Un...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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scrap-book
A blank book for the preservation of short pieces of poetry or other extracts from books and papers....
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boarding-book
A register which has for its object the recording all particulars relative to every ship boarded, a ...
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cargo-book
The master of every coasting-vessel is required to keep a cargo-book, stating the name of the ship, ...
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case-book
A register or journal in which the surgeon records the cases of all the sick and wounded, who are pl...
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complete book
A book which contains the names and particulars of every person borne for wages on board, as age, pl...
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day-book
An old and better name for the log-book; a journal [Fr.]
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defaulter's book
Where men's offences are registered against them, and may be magnified without appeal.
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description-book
A register in which the age, place of birth, and personal description of the crew are recorded.
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guard-book
Report of guard; a copy of which is delivered at the admiral's office by the officer of the last gua...
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issue-book
That which contains the record of issues to the crew, and the charges made against them.
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letter-book
A book wherein is preserved a copy of all letters and orders written by the captain of a ship on pub...
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log-book
Mostly called the log, is a journal into which the log-board is daily transcribed, together with any...
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muster-book
A copy of a ship of war's open list, drawn up for the use of the clerk of the check, in calling over...
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name-book
The Anglo-Saxon nom-bóc, a mustering list.
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order-book
A book kept for the purpose of copying such occasional successive orders as the admiral, or senior o...
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prayer-book
A smaller hand-stone than that which sailors call "bible;" it is used to scrub in narrow crevices wh...
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remark-book
This contains hydrographical observations of every port visited, and is sent annually to the admiral...
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sick-book
An account of such officers and men as are on the sick list on board, or are sent to an hospital, ho...
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slop-book
A register of the slop clothing, soap, and tobacco, issued to the men; also of the religious books s...
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victualling-book
A counterpart of the ship's open list, which is kept by the purser, to enable him to make the necess...
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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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Daniel, Book of
Is ranked by the Jews in that division of their Bible called the Hagiographa (Heb. Khethubim). (See ...
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Esther, Book of
The authorship of this book is unknown. It must have been obviously written after the death of Ahasu...
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Exodus, Book of
Exodus is the name given in the LXX. to the second book of the Pentateuch (q.v.). It means "departur...
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Ezekiel, Book of
Consists mainly of three groups of prophecies. After an account of his call to the prophetical offic...
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Ezra, Book of
This book is the record of events occurring at the close of the Babylonian exile. It was at one time...
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Haggai, Book of
Consists of two brief, comprehensive chapters. The object of the prophet was generally to urge the p...
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Jeremiah, Book of
Consists of twenty-three separate and independent sections, arranged in five books. I. The introduct...
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Job, Book of
A great diversity of opinion exists as to the authorship of this book. From internal evidence, such ...
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Joel, Book of
Joel was probably a resident in Judah, as his commission was to that people. He makes frequent menti...
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Jonah, Book of
This book professes to give an account of what actually took place in the experience of the prophet....
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Judges, Book of
Is so called because it contains the history of the deliverance and government of Israel by the men ...
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Lamentations, Book of
Called in the Hebrew canon 'Ekhah, meaning "How," being the formula for the commencement of a song o...
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Micah, Book of
The sixth in order of the so-called minor prophets. The superscription to this book states that the ...
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Nahum, Book of
Nahum prophesied, according to some, in the beginning of the reign of Ahaz (B.C. 743). Others, howev...
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Nehemiah, Book of
The author of this book was no doubt Nehemiah himself. There are portions of the book written in the...
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Numbers, Book of
The fourth of the books of the Pentateuch, called in the Hebrew be-midbar, i.e., "in the wilderness....
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Obadiah, Book of
Consists of one chapter, "concerning Edom," its impending doom (1:1-16), and the restoration of Isra...
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Proverbs, Book of
A collection of moral and philosophical maxims of a wide range of subjects presented in a poetic for...
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Revelation, Book of
=The Apocalypse, the closing book and the only prophetical book of the New Testament canon. The auth...
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admiralty black-book
See black-book of the admiralty.
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night order-book
A document of some moment, as it contains the captain's behests about change of course, &c., and oug...
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two-monthly book
A book kept by the captain's clerk, to be forwarded every two months, when possible, in order to pre...
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Amos, Book Of
The book of the prophecies of Amos seems to be divided into four principal portions closely connecte...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Baruch, Book Of
One of the apocryphal books of the Old Testament. The book was held in little esteem by the Jews, an...
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Esther, Book Of
one of the latest of the canonical books of Scripture, having been written late in the reign of Xerx...
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Ezra, Book Of
is a continuation of the books of Chronicles. The period covered by the book is eighty years, from t...
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Isaiah, Book Of
I. Chapters 1-5 contain Isaiah's prophecies in the reigns of Uzziah and Jotham, foretelling that the...
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Jeremiah, Book Of
"There can be little doubt that the book of Jeremiah grew out of the roll which Baruch wrote down at...
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Job, Book Of
This book has given rise to much discussion and criticism, some believing the book to be strictly hi...
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Joshua, Book Of
Named from Joshua the son of Nun, who is the principal character in it. The book may be regarded as ...
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Judges, Book Of
of which the book or Ruth formed originally a part, contains a history from Joshua to Samson. The bo...
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Proverbs, Book Of
The title of this book in Hebrew is taken from its first word, mashal, which originally meant "a com...
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Psalms, Book Of
The present Hebrew name of the book is Tehill'im, "Praises;" but in the actual superscriptions of th...
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Ruth, Book Of
contains the history of Ruth, as narrated in the preceding article. The main object of the writer is...
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Tobit, Book Of
a book of the Apocryphal which exists at present in Greek, Latin, Syriac and Hebrew texts, but it wa...
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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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Isaiah, The Book of
Consists of prophecies delivered (Isa. 1) in the reign of Uzziah (1-5), (2) of Jotham (6), (3) Ahaz ...
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Joshua, The Book of
Contains a history of the Israelites from the death of Moses to that of Joshua. It consists of three...
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Ruth The Book of
Was originally a part of the Book of Judges, but it now forms one of the twenty-four separate books ...
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bell, book, and candle
They cursed him with bell, book, and candle; an allusion to the popish form of excommunicating and a...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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break one's horn-book
to incur displeasure. South.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Daniel, The Book Of
stands at the head of a series of writings in which the deepest thoughts of the Jewish people found ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Enoch, The Book Of
The first trance of the existence of this work is found in the Epistle of (Jude 1:14,15) An apocryph...
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Judith, The Book Of
one of the books of the Apocrypha, belongs to the earliest specimens of historical fiction. As to it...
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Micah, The Book Of
Three sections of this work represent three natural divisions of the prophecy-1, 2; 3-5; 6,7-each co...
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Nehemiah, The Book Of
like the preceding one of Ezra, is clearly and certainly not all by the same hand. [Ezra, Book Of, B...
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Zechariah, The Book Of
The book of Zechariah, in its existing form, consists of three principal parts, vis. chs. 1-8; chs. ...
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black-book of the admiralty
An imaginary record of offences. Also, a document of great authority in naval law, as it contains th...
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Esdras, The Second Book Of
This exists in a Latin translation, the Greek being lost. Chapters 3-14 consist of a series of angel...
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Wars of the Lord, The Book of the
(Num. 21:14, 15), some unknown book so called (comp. Gen. 14:14-16; Ex. 17:8-16; Num. 14:40-45; 21:1...
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