wages remitted from abroad

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• Remitted

  ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Remit>>. ...

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• Abroad

  ·adv Before the public at large; throughout society or the world; here and there; widely. II. Abroa...

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• abroad

  Synonymous with foreign, or being on a foreign station. Also an old word for spread; as, all sail ab...

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• Wages

  ·noun A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. ·...

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• Wages

  Rate of (mention only in Matt. 20:2); to be punctually paid (Lev. 19:13; Deut. 24:14, 15); judgement...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Wages

  The earliest mention of wages is of a recompense, not in money, but in kind, to Jacob from Laban. (G...

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• From

  ·prep Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; ou...

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• hangman's wages

  Thirteen pence halfpenny; which, according to the vulgar tradition, was thus allotted: one shilling ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• seaman's wages

  A proper object of the admiralty jurisdiction. ...

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• to hail from

  A phrase probably originating with seamen or boatmen, and meaning to come from, to belong to; as, 'H...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Laodicea, Epistle from

  (Col. 4:16), was probably the Epistle to the Ephesians, as designed for general circulation. It woul...

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• stand from under!

  A notice given to those below to keep out of the way of anything being lowered down, or let fall fro...

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• to know b from a

  bull's foot. It is a common phrase to say, "He does not know B from a bull's foot," meaning that a p...

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• removal from the list

  Dismission, or dropping an officer out of the service. ...

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• wages or pay of the royal navy

  is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...

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• volunteering from a merchantman into the navy

  Any seaman can leave his ship for the purpose of forthwith entering into the royal navy; and thus le...

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• fallen away from a horse load to a cart load

  A saying on one grown fat. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose