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Stool
·noun A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
II. Stool ·noun A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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stool
The gallows, formerly consisting of three posts, over which were laid three transverse beams. This c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stool
A minor channel abaft the main channels, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. (See backstay-stools.)
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bishop
·noun An old name for a woman's bustle.
II. Bishop ·noun A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or d...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bishop
An overseer. In apostolic times, it is quite manifest that there was no difference as to order betwe...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Le Bishop
Rental of 9s. from "le Bishop" held in 1479 by . . . Nauseglis son of Wm. Nausegler (Rentals and Sur...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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bishop
A mixture of wine and water, into which is put a roasted orange. Also one of the largest of Mrs. Phi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bishop
An appendage to a lady's wardrobe, otherwise called a bustle.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bishop
the little spotted beetle, commonly called the lady-bird, or lady-cow ; in some countries the golden...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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bishop
A name of the great northern diver (Colymbus glacialis).
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bishop
The word originally signified an "overseer" or spiritual superintendent. The titles bishop and elder...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Close-stool
·noun A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the f...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cucking stool
·- A kind of chair formerly used for punishing scolds, and also dishonest tradesmen, by fastening th...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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stool-pigeoning
One of the old standing and oft-repeated charges urged with great pertinacity against the police of ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cucking-stool
, ducking-stool
a stool placed over a river in which scolding women are seated and ducked. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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ducking-stool
a stool placed over a river in which scolding women are seated and ducked. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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picksey stool
a mushroom. Devonsh.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Bishop sleeve
·- A wide sleeve, once worn by women.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bishop, Samuel
(1731-1795)
Poet, b. in London, and ed. at Merchant Taylor's School and Oxf., took orders and becam...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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to bishop
the balls, a term used among printers, to water them.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Bishop, Chapel of
See Chapel of the Bishop of St. Paul's.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Bishop of Ely's
See (Bishop of) Ely, Soke.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) David's Bishop of, Inn
Near the cemetery of St. Bride, Fleet Street, in 1311 (Dugdale, ii. 304).
Opposite the north side o...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Edmond the Bishop and Marie Magdalen
A charnell and chapell of St. Edmund the Bishop and Marie Magdalen near St. Mary Spital, founded by ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Chapel of the Bishop of St. Paul's
"Capella Episcopi juxta Sanctum Paulum," 31 Ed. I. (Lib. Cust. I. 229).
Dugdale mentions a Chapel i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.