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• Tom-tom

  ·noun ·see Tam-tam. ...

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• tom-tom

  A small drum, made from the stem of a hollowed tree, generally of the palm-tribe, as the centre is p...

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• Pepper

  ·vi To fire numerous shots (at). II. Pepper ·vt To sprinkle or season with pepper. III. Pepper ·no...

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• pepper, native

  i.q. Climbing Pepper (see above), Piper Novae-Hollandiae, Miq. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native P...

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

• Tom

  ·noun The knave of trumps at gleek. II. Tom ·add. ·noun A familiar contraction of Thomas, a proper ...

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• tom

  A pet bow-chaser, a 9 or 12-pounder. (See long tom.) ...

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• Bell pepper

  ·- A species of Capsicum, or Guinea pepper (C. annuum). It is the red pepper of the gardens. ...

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• Bird pepper

  ·- A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the mos...

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• Pepper box

  ·add. ·noun A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College,...

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• Pepper dulse

  ·- A variety of edible seaweed (Laurencia pinnatifida) distinguished for its pungency. ...

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• Water pepper

  ·- <<Waterwort>>. II. Water pepper ·- <<Smartweed>>. ...

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• The Pepper Quern

  At the corner of Cornhill and Bishopsgate, in the parish of St. Peter Cornhill, devised 1609 by Robe...

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• climbing-pepper

  n. See pepper. ...

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• native pepper

  n. See pepper. ...

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• pepper, climbing

  n. Pipernovae-hollandiae, Miq., N.O. Piperaceae. Calledalso Native Pepper, and Native Pepper-vine. ...

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• pepper-tree

  n. The name is given to twotrees, neither of which are the true pepper of commerce( Piper). They a...

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• galley-pepper

  The soot or ashes which accidentally drop into victuals in cooking. ...

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• pepper-dulse

  ♦ Halymenia edulis; a pungent sea-weed, which, as well as H. palmata, common dulse, is eaten in Scot...

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• Brown, Tom

  (1663-1704) Satirist, was ed. at Oxf., and there composed the famous epigram on Dr. Fell. He was fo...

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• Taylor, Tom

  (1817-1880) Dramatist, b. at Sunderland, ed. at Glasgow and Camb., and was Prof. of English Literat...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• captain tom

  The leader of a mob; also the mob itself. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mad tom

  or tom of bedlam otherwise an Abram Man. A rogue that counterfeits madness. CANT. ...

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• peeping tom

  A nick name for a curious prying fellow; derived from an old legendary tale, told of a taylor of Cov...

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• tom cony

  A simple fellow. ...

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• tom long

  A tiresome story teller. It is coming by Tom Long, the carrier; said of any thing that has been long...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• tom thumb

  A dwarf, a little hop-o'my-thumb. ...

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• long-tom

  n. name given in Sydney to Beloneferox, Gunth., a species of Garfish which has bothjaws prolonged t...

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• long tom

  , or long tom turks. Pieces of lengthy ordnance for chasers, &c. ...

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• tom astoners

  Dashing fellows; from astound or "astony," to terrify. ...

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• tom norie

  A name of the puffin, Fratercula arctica. ...

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• vine, native pepper

  See Climbing Pepper,under pepper. ...

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• Tom and Jerry

  ·add. ·- A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, ·etc., and beaten up w...

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• Tom o' Bedlam

  ·add. ·- Formerly, a wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospitel, ·Eng.; hen...

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• Whip-tom-kelly

  ·noun A vireo (Vireo altiloquus) native of the West Indies and Florida; — called also black-whisker...

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• tom t--dman

  A night man, one who empties necessary houses. ...

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• tom of bedlam

  The same as Abram man. otherwise an Abram Man. A rogue that counterfeits madness. CANT. ...

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• Tom Russell's mahogany

  See mahogany. ...

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• tom cox's traverse

  Up one hatchway and down another: others say three turns round the long boat, and a pull at the scut...

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• whether or no, tom collins

  A phrase equivalent to, "Whether you will or not, such is my determination, not to be gainsaid." ...

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