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Bag
·vi To become pregnant.
II. Bag ·vi To swell with arrogance.
III. Bag ·noun The quantity of game b...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bag
1) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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bag
He gave them the bag, i.e. left them.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bag
A commercial term of quantity; as, a bread or biscuit bag, a sand-bag, &c. An empty purse.
♦ To ba...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bag
is the rendering of several words in the Old and New Testaments.
• Charitim, the "bags" in which Na...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Net
·adj Without spot; pure; shining.
II. Net ·vt To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree.
I...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Net
In use among the Hebrews for fishing, hunting, and fowling. The fishing-net was probably constructed...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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net
In commerce, is the weight of a commodity alone, without the package.
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Ditty-bag
·noun A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, ·etc.;
— also called sailor's housewife.
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Duffel bag
·add. ·- A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like.
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Farding-bag
·noun The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.
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Honey-bag
·noun The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.
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Telescope bag
·add. ·- An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other.
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green bag
An attorney: those gentlemen carry their clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they h...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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louse bag
A black bag worn to the hair or wig.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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nose bag
A bag fastened to the horse's head, in which the soldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shag-bag
A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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shake-bag
A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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chewgah-bag
n.
Queensland aboriginalpigeon-English for Sugar-bag (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sugar-bag
n.
nest of honey, and the honey.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 67:
«Th...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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badger-bag
The fictitious Neptune who visits the ship on her crossing the line.
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bag, the
Allowed for the men to keep their clothes in. The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-toke...
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bag-reef
A fourth or lower reef of fore-and-aft sails, often used in the royal navy.
♦ Bag-reef of top-sail...
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ditty-bag
Derives its name from the dittis or Manchester stuff of which it was once made. It is in use among s...
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fernan bag
A small ditty-bag, often worn by sailors, for holding tobacco and other things. They have applied th...
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lull-bag
A wide canvas hose in whalers for conducting blubber into the casks, as it is "made off."
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Bow net
·- A net for catching birds.
II. Bow net ·- A trap for lobsters, being a wickerwork cylinder with a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bramble net
·- A net to catch birds.
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Day-net
·noun A net for catching small birds.
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Net-veined
·adj Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net-veined wing or leaf.
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Tuck-net
·noun ·see <<Tuck>>, ·noun, 2.
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kangaroo-net
n.
net made by the natives tocatch the kangaroo.
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 45...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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mosquito net
A net or curtain, which, in the Southern States and in the West Indies, is placed over the bed to pr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cleaching net
A hand-net with a hoop and bar, used by fishermen on the banks of the Severn.
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dipping-net
A small net used for taking shad and other fish out of the water.
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drag-net
A trawl or net to draw on the bottom for flat-fish.
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draw-net
Erroneously used for drag-net.
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drift-net
A large net, with meshes of one inch, used in the pilchard fishery in August; also, for herrings and...
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gaff-net
A peculiar net for fishing.
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halve-net
A standing net used in the north to prevent fishes from returning with the falling tide.
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harry-net
A net with such small meshes, and so formed, as to take even the young and small fish.
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kettle-net
A net used in taking mackerel.
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mosquito net
A light curtain spread over a cot or bed in warm climates, to protect the sleeper from mosquitoes.
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purse-net
A peculiar landing-net in fishing. It is used in the seine and trawl to bewilder the fish, and preve...
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raise-net
A kind of staked net on our northern shores, so called from rising and falling with the tide.
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shackle-net
The northern term for flue-net.
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sheen-net
A large drag-net.
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shot-net
A mackerel-net.
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spake-net
A peculiar net for catching crabs.
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bag of nails
He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bag and baggage
The whole movable property.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Knight baro-net
·- ·see <<Baronet>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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ban-net tree
a walnut-tree. Glo.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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net and coble
The means by which sasses or flood-gates are allowed in fishings on navigable rivers.
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bag, of the head-rails
The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail.
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