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Tide
·prep Violent confluence.
II. Tide ·prep Time; period; season.
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tide
A regular periodical current of waters, setting alternately in a flux and reflux; it is owing to the...
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Ball
·noun The globe or earth.
II. Ball ·noun A social assembly for the purpose of dancing.
III. Ball ·...
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Le Ball
A tenement so called in parish of St. Martin Pomers, 1 H. VII. (Anc. Deeds, C. 596).
Not further id...
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ball
In a general sense, implies a spherical and round body, whether naturally so or formed into that fig...
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tide and half-tide
Those roadsteads affected by several rivers or channels leading into them; as, for instance, Spithea...
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Bartholomew tide
·- Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th.
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Ebb tide
·- The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide;
— opposed to flood tide.
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Tide-rode
·adj Swung by the tide when at anchor;
— opposed to wind-rode.
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low tide
When there is no money in a man's pocket.
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yule-tide
Christmas. N.
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cross-tide
The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.)
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double-tide
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.)
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ebb-tide
The receding or running out of the sea, in contradistinction to flood.
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eddy-tide
When the water runs back from some obstacle to the free passage of the stream.
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falling tide
, or ebb of tide.
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flood-tide
The flux of the tide, or the time the water continues rising. When the water begins to rise, it is c...
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high tide
, or high water.
Figuratively, a full purse. Constance, in Shakspeare's King John, uses the term h...
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lee-tide
A tide running in the same direction as the wind, and forcing a ship to leeward of the line upon whi...
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spring-tide
The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...
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tide or tidal harbour
A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood.
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tide-gate
A place where the tide runs strong.
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tide-gauge
An instrument contrived for measuring the height of the tides.
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tide-pool
A sort of basin worn in seaside rocks.
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tide-rip
Those short ripplings which result from eddies, or the passage of the tide over uneven bottom; also ...
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tide-rode
The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings by the force of the tide. In opposition to wind-...
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tide-way
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly.
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true tide
Opposed to cross-tide (which see).
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weather-tide
The reverse of lee-tide. That which, running contrary to the direction of the wind, by setting again...
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windward tide
See weather-tide.
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Ball-flower
·noun An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup roun...
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Basket ball
·add. ·- A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to ...
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Minie ball
·- A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the exp...
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Puddle-ball
·noun The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.
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Smoke ball
·add. ·- ·same·as <<Puffball>>.
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Spit ball
·add. ·- A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers ...
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Tether-ball
·add. ·noun A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the ob...
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Volley ball
·add. ·- A game played by volleying a large inflated ball with the hands over a net 7 ft. 6 in. high...
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Whitworth ball
·- A prejectile used in the Whitworth gun.
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Ball Yard
In Beech Lane. In Cripplegate Ward Without (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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beilby's ball
He will dance at Beilby's ball, where the sheriff pays the music; he will be hanged. Who Mr. Beilby ...
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buttock ball
The amorous congress. CANT.
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sheriff's ball
An execution. To dance at the sheriff's ball, and loll out one's tongue at the company; to be hanged...
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whow ball
A milk-maid: from their frequent use of the word whow, to make the cow stand still in milking. Ball ...
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pudding-ball
n.
a fish; corruption of theaboriginal name of it, puddinba (q.v.), by the lawof Hobson-Jobson.
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fuzz-ball
a species of fungus. N. Called in some parts of England a Puckfoist.
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anchor-ball
A pyrotechnical combustible attached to a grapnel for adhering to and setting fire to ships.
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ball-cartridge
For small arms.
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ball-clay
Adhesive strong bottom, brought up by the flukes of the anchors in massy lumps.
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ball-stell
The geometrical instrument named della stella.
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fire-ball
In meteorology, a beautiful phenomenon seen at times, the origin of which is as yet imperfectly acco...
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across the tide
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athwart the tide
See across the tide.
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ebb of tide
See falling tide
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half-tide rocks
Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (See tide.)
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tide, ebb of
The falling tide.
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velocity of tide or current
, depends on several circumstances. First, the tide varies with the state of the moon, running stron...
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Ball Court, Cornhill
South out of Cornhill, at No.38, east of Birchin Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill Ward.
First men...
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Blue Ball Court
1) In Cannon Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps
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Fire Ball Alley
See Partridge Court.
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Fire Ball court
East out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (25 Eliz. 1583) (Lond. Inq. p.m. III. p. 64) to O.S. 25 i...
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Fire Ball Court
Near First (Aldermanbury) Postern, London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the map...
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ball-and-socket
A clever adaptation to give astronomical or surveying instruments full play and motion every way by ...
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ball-off, to
To twist rope-yarns into balls, with a running end in the heart for making spun-yarn.
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fluctuation of the tide
The rising and falling of the waters.
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strength of the tide
Where it runs strongest, which in serpentine courses will be found in the hollow curves.
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turn of the tide
The change from ebb to flood, or the contrary.
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Ball, Sir Robert Stawell
LL.D., F.R.S.
(b. 1840)
Scientific writer. The Story of the Heavens (1885), Starland (1889), The S...
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Ball Alley, Aldersgate Street
East out of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without, near the Gate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799)....
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Ball Alley, Cannon Street
Out of Cannon Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Ball Alley, Lime Street
East out of Lime Street, near the middle (Hatton, 1708-Elmes, 1831).
The site is now occupied by Fe...
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Ball Alley, Lombard Street
North out of Lombard Street at No. 54 on the west side of All Hallows Church (P.O. Directory). In La...
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Ball Alley, London Wall
South out of London Wall. In Broad Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799).
First mention: In Ward...
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Ball Alley, Sherbourne Lane
At. No. 5 Sherbourne Lane, opposite the Post Office Yard.
A dark passage leading into St. Swithin's...
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Ball Alley, St. Katherine's
Out of St. Katherine's Lane, East Smithfield (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Ball Alley, Thames Street
South out of Thames Street to the Thames, east of Black-boy Alley in Castle Baynard Ward (Leake, 166...
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Ball and Shears Court
South-west out of Houndsditch (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755). In Portsoken Ward.
Site now occupied b...
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Ball Court, Giltspur Street
East out of Giltspur Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Collmgwood, 1907).
First mention: O. and M...
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Ball Court, Jewry Street
West out of Jewry Street. In Aldgate Ward (L.C.C. List of Streets, 1912) at No. 15 (Lockie, 1810).
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Ball Court, Mincing Lane
Out of Mincing Lane (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Ball Court, Old Bailey
East out of Old Bailey in Farringdon Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Former name : " Bell ...
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Ball Court, Petticoat Lane
Out of Petticoat Lane (Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Ball Court, St. Katherine's
East out of St. Katherine's Lane, a few doors from No.50 Upper East Smithfield (Strype, ed. 1755-Loc...
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Ball Yard, Giltspur Street
See Ball Court, Giltspur Street.
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Last and Ball Court
At London Wall, near Carpenters' Hall (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
Name derived...
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Leg and Ball Alley
South out of London Wall, in parish of All Hallows, London Wall, in Broad Street Ward.
Broad Street...
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The Ball, St. Martin's le Grand
A house so called in the parish of St. Martyns le grande, 1573 (Loud. Deeds, 1500-1600, No.13, part ...
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Ball Alley, St. Paul's Churchyard
Out of St. Paul's Churchyard.
Named after the " Ball," a house with such a sign standing there 1594...
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Ball Alley, Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate
Out of Half Moon Alley, Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Boyle, 1799-Elmes, 1831).
Not nam...
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Rose and Ball Court. Addle Hill
See Rose Court.
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