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blow off, to
To clear up in the clouds.
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blow-off-pipe
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Blow
·noun The spouting of a whale.
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blow
He has bit the blow, i.e. he has stolen the goods. Cant.
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blow
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n.
stroke of the shears in sheep-shearing.
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to blow
1) To taunt; to ridicule.
2) To turn informer on an accomplice.
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blow
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Applied to the breathing of whales and other cetaceans. The expired air from the lungs being hi...
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Off
·adv Denoting opposition or negation.
II. Off ·interj Away; begone;
— a command to depart.
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off
The opposite to near. Also applied to a ship sailing from the shore into the open sea. Also, implies...
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automatic blow-off apparatus
See blow-off-pipe.
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Blow valve
·- ·see Snifting valve.
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Blow-out
·noun The cleaning of the flues of a boiler from scale, ·etc., by a blast of steam.
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By-blow
·noun An illegitimate child; a bastard.
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blow-up
A discovery, or the confusion occasioned by one.
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to blow over
Said properly of a storm; and hence generally, to pass away without effect. This metaphor is very co...
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to blow up
To scold, to abuse, either in speaking or writing. A vulgar expression borrowed from sailor's langua...
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blow-up
A quarrel; a dispute. A common expression, used in familiar conversation.
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blow out
A feast; also called a tuck out. Both expressions are English as well as American.
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blow-milk
skimmed milk, perhaps blue milk ; milk when closely skimmed being of a blueish colour. N.
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blow-holes
The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...
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blow home
The wind does not cease or moderate till it comes past that place, blowing continuously over the lan...
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blow-out
Extravagant feasting regardless of consequences.
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blow-pipe
An engine of offence used by the Araucanians and Borneans, and with the latter termed sumpitan: the ...
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blow-valve
A valve by which the first vacuum necessary for starting a steam-engine is produced.
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Cast-off
·adj Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.
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Cut-off
·noun That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.
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Damp off
·- To decay and perish through excessive moisture.
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Far-off
·adj Remote; as, the far-off distance. ·cf. Far-off, under Far, ·adv
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Knock-off
·add. ·adj That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off.
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Left-off
·adj Laid aside; cast-off.
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Let-off
·noun A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom....
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Put-off
·noun A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an <<Excuse>>.
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Set-off
·noun ·see <<Offset>>, 7.
II. Set-off ·noun ·same·as <<Offset>>, ·noun, 4.
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Take-off
·noun An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
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Taking-off
·add. ·noun The removal of sheets from the press.
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Throw-off
·noun A start in a hunt or a race.
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Wash-off
·adj Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable;
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clawed off
Severely beaten or whipped; also smartly poxed or clapped.
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toss off
Manual pollution.
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to whip off
To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, wher...
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to bluff off
To put on a troublesome questioner, or dun, &c.
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to choke off
A figurative expression borrowed from the act of choking a dog to make him loosen his hold. To arres...
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to fob off
To delude by a trick.--Johnson.
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to head off
To get before; to intercept. Ex. 'The thief ran fast, but the officer managed to head him off.'
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to slab off
I do not know the exact meaning of this expression.
You must take notice that I am slabb'd off from...
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to stave off
To push away as with a staff; to delay; as, 'to stave off the execution of the project.--Webster.
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cut-off
Passages cut by the great Western rivers, particularly the Mississippi, affording new channels, and ...
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hands off
A vulgar phrase for keep off; forbear.--Johnson.
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put off
An excuse, an illusory pretext for delay.--Carr's Craven Dialect.
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right off
Directly; immediately.
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away off
At a distance, but in sight.
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boxing off
Is performed by hauling the head-sheets to windward, and laying the head-yards flat aback, to pay th...
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break-off
(See broken-off)
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broken-off
Fallen off, in azimuth, from the course. Also, men taken from one duty to be put on another.
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claw off
See claw, to
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crawling off
Working off a lee-shore by slow degrees.
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cut off
A term used to denote a vessel's being seized by stratagem by the natives, and the crew being murder...
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ease off!
,or ease away there!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully.
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falling off
The opposite of griping, or coming up to the wind; it is the movement or direction of the ship's hea...
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hold off
The keeping the hove-in part of a cable or hawser clear of the capstan.
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keep off
To fall to a distance from the shore, or a ship, &c. (See offing.)
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killing-off
Striking the names of dead officers from the navy list by a coup de plume.
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laying off
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lie off!
An order given to a boat to remain off on her oars till permission is given for her to come alongsid...
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making off
Cutting the flensed blubber of a whale into pieces, fitted to pass in at the bilge-holes of the butt...
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nothing off!
A term used by the man at the conn to the steersman, directing him to keep her close to the wind; or...
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off duty
An officer, marine, or seaman in his watch below, &c. An officer is sometimes put "off duty" as a pu...
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off-reckoning
A proportion of the full pay of troops retained from them, in special cases, until the period of fin...
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paid off
See paying off.
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paying off
The movement by which a ship's head falls off from the wind, and drops to leeward. Also, the paying ...
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push off
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put off!
or push off
The order to boats to quit the ship or the shore.
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shove off!
The order to the bowman to put the boat's head off with his boat-hook.
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slack off
, or slacken!
The order to ease away the rope or tackle by which anything is held fast; as, "Slack...
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taking off
Said of tides, when decreasing from the spring-tides.
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to blow the grounsils
To lie with a woman on the floor. Cant.
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to blow the gab
To confess, or impeach a confederate. Cant.
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blow the gaff
To reveal a secret; to expose or inform against a person.
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blow-through valve
A valve admitting steam into the condenser, in order to clear it of air and water before starting th...
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blow up, to
To abuse angrily.
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to bark off squirrels
A common way of killing squirrels among those who are expert with the rifle, in the Western States, ...
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off and on
Vacillating, changeable, undecided; in which sense it is much used with us. In England it is also us...
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back off all
The order when the harpooner has thrown his harpoon into the whale. Also, to back off a sudden dange...
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ball-off, to
To twist rope-yarns into balls, with a running end in the heart for making spun-yarn.
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ease off handsomely!
,or ease away there!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully.
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fend off, to
In order to avoid violent contact, is, by the application of a spar, junk, rattans, &c., to prevent ...
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file off, to
To march off to a flank by files, or with a very small front.
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haul off, to
To sail closer to the wind, in order to get further from any object.
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move off, to
To defile.
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off and on
When a ship beating to windward approaches the shore by one board, and recedes from it when on the o...
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off she goes!
Means run away with the purchase fall. Move to the tune of the fifer. The first move when a vessel i...
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off the reel
At once; without stopping. In allusion to the way in which the log-line flies off the reel when a sh...
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pricking her off
Marking a ship's position upon a chart by the help of a scale and compasses, so as to show her situa...
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pyke off, to
To go away silently.
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sheer off, to
To move to a greater distance, or to steer so as to keep clear of a vessel or other object.
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swig off, to
To pull at the bight of a rope by jerks, having its lower end fast; or to gain on a rope by jumping ...
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tell off, to
To divide a body of men into divisions and subdivisions, preparatory to a special service.
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well off, to
A mode of shutting off a leak by surrounding it by timbers screwed home through the lining to the ti...
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blow over, (it will)
Said of a gale which is expected to pass away quickly.
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to take the shine off
To surpass; excel.
Dublin is worth seein'; it takes the shine off most cities.--Sam Slick, 3d Serie...
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clean off the reel
When the ship by her rapidity pulls the line off the log-reel, without its being assisted. Also, upr...
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off at a tangent
Going in a hurry, or in a testy humour.
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knock off work and carry deals
A term used to deride the idea of any work, however light, being relaxation; just as giving up takin...
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