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• Try

  ·noun A screen, or sieve, for grain. II. Try ·vt Refined; select; excellent; choice. III. Try ·nou...

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• to try

  To purify; to refine.--Johnson. Webster. A common use of this word in the United States, and the onl...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• works

  All fortificational constructions, whether permanent, field, or makeshifts of the moment; from the m...

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• Try cock

  ·add. ·- A cock for withdrawing a small quantity of liquid, as for testing. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Try-square

  ·noun An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, ·etc., for laying off right angles off right angles...

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• try on

  To endeavour. To live by thieving. Coves who try it on; professed thieves. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Coal works

  ·- A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. ...

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• Copper works

  ·- A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. ...

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• Iron works

  ·- ·see under Iron, ·adj. ...

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• Works, Good

  The old objection against the doctrine of salvation by grace, that it does away with the necessity o...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• dead works

  All that part of the ship which is above water when she is laden. The same as upper work, or superna...

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• detached works

  Works included in the scheme of defence of a fortress, but separated from it, and beyond the glacis....

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• field-works

  The constructions of field-fortification (which see). ...

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• fire-works

  See pyrotechny. ...

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• upper-works

  That part of a ship which rises from the water's surface when she is properly trimmed for a voyage. ...

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• try down, to

  To boil out the oil from blubber at sea in whalers. ...

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• Works, Covenant of

  Entered into by God with Adam as the representative of the human race (comp. Gen. 9:11, 12; 17:1-21)...

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• Water Works, London Bridge

  On the west side of Old London Bridge, opposite St. Magnus Church, in Bridge Ward Within (O. and M. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• try, to, or lie-to, in a gale

  , is, by a judicious balance of canvas, to keep a ship's bow to the sea, and, with as much as she ca...

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• try back for a bend, to

  To pay back some of the bight of a cable, in order to have sufficient to form the bend. ...

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