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• Speaking

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Speak>>. II. Speaking ·adj Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; a...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Trumpet

  ·noun A <<Trumpeter>>. II. Trumpet ·vi To sound loudly, or with a tone like a trumpet; to utter a t...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• trumpet

  To sound one's own trumpet; to praise one's self. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Trumpet

  [Cornet] ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Walking

  ·- ·adj & ·noun from Walk, v. II. Walking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Walk>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Home-speaking

  ·noun Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. ...

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• Evil-speaking

  Is expressly forbidden (Titus 3:2; James 4:11), and severe punishments are denounced against it (1 C...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Sea trumpet

  ·- Any large marine univalve shell of the genus Triton. ·see <<Triton>>. II. Sea trumpet ·- A great...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Trumpet-shaped

  ·adj Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper. ...

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• Trumpet-tongued

  ·adj Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech. ...

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• walking cornet

  An ensign of foot. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• walking poulterer

  One who steals fowls, and hawks them from door to door. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• walking stationer

  A hawker of pamphlets, &c. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• walking-leaf

  n. See phasmid. ...

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

• walking-stick

  n. See phasmid. ...

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

• 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.

• walking papers

  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.

• walking the plank

  A mode of destroying devoted persons or officers in a mutiny or ship-board, by blindfolding them, an...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• palm, walking-stick

  n. a Queensland plant, Bacularia monostachya, F. v. M., N.O. Palmeae.So called because the stem is ...

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

• walking-stick palm

  n. See under palm, walking-stick. ...

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

• walking a plank

  An obsolete method of destroying people in mutiny and piracy, under a plea of avoiding the penalty o...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Horse and Trumpet Yard

  East out of Crutched Friars, No. 17 (Elmes, 1831). In Aldgate Ward. First mention: Rocque, 1746. O...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• walking up against the wall

  To run up a score, which in alehouses is commonly recorded with chalk on the walls of the bar. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• walking away with the anchor

  Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Sun and Trumpet Alley, Aldgate High Street

  See Sun Court. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.