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Blue-eyed
·adj Having blue eyes.
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Blue grass
·- A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire...
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Blue-grass State
·add. ·- The Sate of Kentucky;
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Eyed
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Eye>>.
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Blue
·noun A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
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Blue
Generally associated with purple (Ex. 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36, etc.). It is supposed to have been obtaine...
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blue
To look blue; to be confounded, terrified, or disappointed. Blue as a razor; perhaps, blue as azure....
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blue
1) Gloomy, severe; extreme, ultra.
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blue
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Grass
·vi To produce grass.
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Grass
1) Heb. hatsir, ripe grass fit for mowing (1 Kings 18:5; Job 40:15; Ps. 104:14). As the herbage rapi...
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grass
n.
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grass
A vulgar contraction of sparrow-grass, i. e. asparagus. Further than this the force of corruption ca...
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grass
A term applied to vegetables in general. (See feed of grass.)
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Argus-eyed
·adj Extremely observant; watchful; sharp-sighted.
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Bird-eyed
·adj Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.
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Black-eyed
·adj Having black eyes.
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Blear-eyed
·adj Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.
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Blink-eyed
·adj Habitually winking.
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Buck-eyed
·adj Having bad or speckled eyes.
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Cat-eyed
·adj Having eyes like a cat; hence, able to see in the dark.
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Cross-eyed
·adj Affected with strabismus; squint-eyed; squinting.
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Double-eyed
·adj Having a deceitful look.
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Dove-eyed
·adj Having eyes like a dove; meekeyed; as, dove-eyed Peace.
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Dry-eyed
·adj Not having tears in the eyes.
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Dull-eyed
·adj Having eyes wanting brightness, liveliness, or vivacity.
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Eagle-eyed
·adj Sharp-sighted as an <<Eagle>>.
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Evil-eyed
·adj Possessed of the supposed evil eye; also, looking with envy, jealousy, or bad design; malicious...
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Frog-eyed
·add. ·adj Spotted with whitish specks due to a disease, or produced artificially by spraying;
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Goggle-eyed
·adj Having prominent and distorted or rolling eyes.
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Green-eyed
·adj Having green eyes.
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Hawk-eyed
·adj Having a keen eye; sharpsighted; discerning.
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Lynx-eyed
·adj Having acute sight.
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Mole-eyed
·adj Having eyes like those of the mole; having imperfect sight.
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Moon-eyed
·adj Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.
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Mope-eyed
·adj Shortsighted; purblind.
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Night-eyed
·adj Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed.
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Open-eyed
·adj With eyes widely open; watchful; vigilant.
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Owl-eyed
·adj Having eyes like an owl's.
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Pearl-eyed
·adj Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
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Pig-eyed
·adj Having small, deep-set eyes.
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Pin-eyed
·adj Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concea...
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Pink-eyed
·adj Having small eyes.
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Sessile-eyed
·adj Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk;
— opposed to stalk-eyed.
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Squint-eyed
·adj Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.
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Stalk-eyed
·adj Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle;
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Swivel-eyed
·adj Squint-eyed.
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Thrum-eyed
·adj Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in lon...
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Wall-eyed
·adj Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color.
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Yellow-eyed
·adj Having yellow eyes.
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gimblet-eyed
Squinting, either in man or woman.
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gooseberry-eyed
One with dull grey eyes, like boiled gooseberries.
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gravy-eyed
Blear-eyed, one whose eyes have a running humour.
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swivel-eyed
Squinting.
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wapper-eyed
Sore-eyed.
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Blue bonnet
·noun ·Alt. of Blue-bonnet.
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Blue book
·- The United States official "Biennial Register.".
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Blue jay
·- The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is ...
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Blue-bonnet
·noun A plant. ·same·as <<Bluebottle>>.
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Blue-eye
·noun The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
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Blue-john
·noun A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
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Blue-skylaw
·add. ·- A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision of investment companies in orde...
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Blue-veined
·adj Having blue veins or blue streaks.
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Navy blue
·add. ·- Prussian blue.
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Sanders-blue
·noun ·see Saunders-blue.
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Saunders-blue
·noun A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from c...
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Sevres blue
·- A very light blue.
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Sky-blue
·adj Having the blue color of the sky; azure; as, a sky-blue stone.
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Smalt-blue
·adj Deep blue, like smalt.
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True-blue
·noun A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity.
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Turnbull's blue
·- The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery l...
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Blue Anchor
Strype says that the part of Houndsditch in Bishopsgate Ward Without extends to the Blue Anchor (Str...
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Blue Bell
In Bread Street, in Bread Street Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 201).
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The Blue Boar
On the east side of Fish Street Hill, adjoining King's Head Court.
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Blue Gates
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blue boar
A venereal bubo.
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blue devils
Low spirits.
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blue flag
He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the...
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blue pigeons
Thieves who steal lead off houses and churches. Cant. To fly a blue pigeon; to steal lead off houses...
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blue plumb
A bullet.--Surfeited with a blue plumb; wounded with a bullet. A sortment of George R--'s blue plumb...
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blue skin
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blue tape, or sky blue
Gin.
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blue ruin
Gin. Blue ribband; gin.
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blue-bush
n.
an Australian forage plant,a kind of Salt-bush, Kochia pyrainidata, Benth, N.O. Chenopodiaceae.
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blue-cod
n.
name given to a New Zealand fish, Percis colias, family Trachinidae. Called alsoin New Zealand R...
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blue-creeper
n.
name given to the creeper, Comesperma volubile, Lab., N.O. Campanulaceae.
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blue-eye
n.
a bird name. The Blue facedHoney-eater (q.v.).
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blue-fish
n.
name given in Sydney to Girella cyanea, of the family Sparidae, orSea-Breams. It is different fr...
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blue-groper
n.
a fish of New South Wales and Tasmania, Cossyphus gouldii, one of the Labridaeor Wrasses, often ...
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blue-gum
n.
See under gum. It is anincreasing practice to make a single word of this compound, andto pronoun...
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blue-head
n.
Tasmanian name for the fishcalled the blue-groper (q.v.)
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blue lobelia
n.
The indigenous species inTasmania which receives this name is Lobelia gibbosa,Lab., N.O. Campanu...
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blue-pointer
n.
a name given in New South Wales to a species of Shark, Lamna glauca, Mull. and Heule, family Lam...
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blue-wing
n.
a sportsman's name (as in England)for the bird called the Shoveller (q.v.).
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blue-berry
(Vacinium tenellum.) A fruit resembling the whortleberry in appearance and taste.
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blue-book
A printed book containing the names of all the persons holding office under the Government of the Un...
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blue-nose
The slang name for a native of Nova Scotia.
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blue-skins
A nickname applied to the Presbyterians, from their alleged grave deportment.
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blue devils
To have the blue devils is to be dispirited.
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blue laws
"Where, and how, the story of the New Haven Blue Laws originated, is a matter of some curiosity. Acc...
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blue stocking
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blue-jackets
The seamen as distinguished from the marines.
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blue light
A pyrotechnical preparation for signals by night. Also called Bengal light.
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blue-lightism
Affected sanctimoniousness.
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blue moon
An indefinite period.
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blue-nose
A general term for a native of Nova Scotia.
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blue peter
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blue pigeon
A nickname for the sounding lead.
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blue water
The open ocean.
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true-blue
A metaphorical term for an honest and hearty sailor: "true to his uniform, and uniformly true."
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Aleppo grass
·add. ·- One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). ·see <<Andro...
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Alfa grass
·noun A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.
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Arrow grass
·noun An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as...
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Bent grass
·- ·same·as <<Bent>>, a kind of grass.
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Bermuda grass
·- A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a na...
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Brome grass
·- A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.
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Bunch grass
·- A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scab...
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Couch grass
·- ·see Quitch grass.
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Doob grass
·- A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, ...
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Doub grass
·- Doob grass.
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Flyaway grass
·add. ·- The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its light panicle, which is blown to great...
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Gama grass
·- A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in...
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Grama grass
·- The name of several kinds of pasture grasses found in the Western United States, ·esp. the Boutel...
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Grass tree
·- A similar Australian plant (Kingia australis).
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Grass-green
·adj Green with grass.
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Grass-grown
·adj Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.
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Guatemala grass
·- ·see <<Teosinte>>.
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Hair grass
·- A grass with very slender leaves or branches; as the Agrostis scabra, and several species of Aira...
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Hard grass
·- A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the spe...
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Hariali grass
·- The East Indian name of the Cynodon Dactylon; dog's-grass.
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Johnson grass
·- A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in the Southern and Western States for pastu...
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Lyme grass
·- A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, ·esp. E. Canadensis, and the European E. a...
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Melic grass
·- A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.
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Para grass
·add. ·- Piassaba fiber.
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Quack grass
·- ·see Quitch grass.
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Quitch grass
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Randall grass
·- The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). ·see under <<Grass>>.
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Ray grass
·- A perennial European grass (Lolium perenne);
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Scutch grass
·- A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). ·see Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.
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Sea grass
·- <<Eelgrass>>.
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Sisal grass
·- ·Alt. of Sisal hemp.
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Squitch grass
·- Quitch grass.
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Timothy grass
·- A kind of grass (Phleum pratense) with long cylindrical spikes;
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Tussac grass
·- Tussock grass.
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Twitch grass
·- ·see Quitch grass.
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Water grass
·add. ·- Manna grass.
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bamboo-grass
n.
an Australian cane-like grass, Glyceria ramigera, F. v. M. ; also called CaneGrass. Largely used...
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barcoo-grass
n.
an Australian grass, Anthistiria membranacea, Lindl. One of the best pasturegrasses in Queenslan...
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bent-grass
. n.
See grass.
1835. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 65:
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button-grass
n.
Schaenussphaerocephalus, Poiret, N.O. Cyperaceae. The grassis found covering barren boggy land i...
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cane-grass
n.
i.q. bamboo-grass (q.v.).
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cutting-grass
n.
Cladium psittacorum,Labill., N.O. Cyperaceae. It grows very long narrowblades whose thin rigid e...
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fibrous grass
n.
a Tasmanian grass(see Grass), Stipa semiibarbata, R. Br., N.O. Gramineae.
1862. W. Archer, `Pro...
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grass-bird
n.
In New Zealand, Sphenoeacus//sic. otherwhere Sphenaeacus GJC// punctatus, Gray, thesame as Fern-...
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grass-parrakeet
n.
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grass-tree
n.
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kangaroo-grass
n.
a name given to severalspecies of grasses of the genera Anthistiria and Andropogon, chiefly from...
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landsborough grass
n.
a valuable Queenslandfodder grass of a reddish colour, Anthistiriamembranacea, Lindl., N.O. Gram...
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manna-grass
See grass.
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mitchell-grass
n.
an Australian grass, Astrebla elymoides, A. triticoides, F. v. M., N.O. Gramineae. Two other spe...
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mulga-grass
n.
an Australian grass, Danthonia penicillata, F. v. M.; also Neurachnemitchelliana, Nees. See also...
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nut-grass
n.
an Australian plant, Cyperus rotundus, Linn., N.O. Cyperaceae. The specific andthe vernacular na...
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oat-grass
n.
Anthistiria avenacea,F. v. M., N.O. Gramineae. A species of Kangaroo-Grass (q.v.). See also Gras...
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porcupine-grass
n.
the name given to certainspecies of Triodia, of which the more important are T. mitchelli, Benth...
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snow-grass
n.
Poa caespitosa,G. Forst., another name for Wiry grass (q.v.).See also Grass.
1875. Wood and Lap...
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spear-grass
n.
name given to several grasseswhose spear-like seeds spoil the wool of sheep, but which areyet ex...
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sugar-grass
n.
an Australian grass, Erianthus fulvus, Kunth., N.O. Gramineae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Nati...
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sword-grass
n.
In New Zealand, Arundoconspicua; in Australia, Cladium psittacorum,Labill. It is not the same as...
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tolmer's grass
n.
a fibrous plant, Lepidosperma gladiatum, Labill., N.O. Cyperaceae,suitable for manufacture of pa...
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travellers' grass
i.q. settler's twine (q.v.).
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tussock-grass
n.
Tussock is an English wordfor a tuft of grass. From this a plant of the lily family, Lomandra lo...
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umbrella-grass
i.q. Native Millet, Panicumdecompositum, R. Br., N.O. Gramineae. See Millet. It is called Umbrella-g...
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wallaby-grass
n.
an Australian grass, Danthonia penicillata, F. v. M., N.O. Gramineae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Usef...
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wiry-grass
and Wiry-grass
See grass.
1883. E. M. Curr, `Recollections of Squatting in Victoria'(1841-1851), p...
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wire-grass
and Wiry-grass
See grass.
1883. E. M. Curr, `Recollections of Squatting in Victoria'(1841-1851), p...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bent grass
(Genus, agrostis.) The popular name in the Northern States for a common grass, sometimes called red-...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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buffalo grass
A species of short grass from two to four inches high, covering the boundless prairies on which the ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cut-grass
(Leersia oryzoides.) The common name of a species of grass, with leaves exceedingly rough backward, ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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eel-grass
(Zostera marina.) A plant thrown ashore in large quantities by the sea. It is also called Sea-wrack....
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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guinea grass
A species of grass cultivated in the West Indies, used as fodder for horses.--Carmichael's W. Indies...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sparrow grass
A vulgar pronunciation of asparagus both in England and America. Hence the celebrated charade by a c...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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timothy grass
(Phleum pratense.) The common name for the Herd's Grass; said to be derived from Timothy Hanson, one...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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toothache grass
(Lat. monocera aromatica.) A singular kind of grass which grows in Florida, with a naked stalk four ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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goose-grass
goose-tansy, argentina, or auscrina. N.
...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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scrooby-grass
scurvy-grass. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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twitch-grass
a long and rank sort of grass. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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beach-grass
♦ Alga marina thrown up by the surf or tide.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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combers, grass
Men who volunteer from the plough-tail, and often prove valuable seamen.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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eel-grass
A name for the sea-wrack (Zostera marina); it is thrown ashore by the sea in large quantities.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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grass-combers
A galley-term for all those landsmen who enter the naval service from farming counties. Lord Exmouth...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Black-eyed Susan
·add. ·- The bladder ketmie.
II. Black-eyed Susan ·add. ·- The coneflower, or yellow daisy (Rudbeck...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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moon-eyed hen
A squinting wench.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cock-eyed bob
a local slang term in Western Australiafor a thunderstorm.
1894. `The Age,' Jan. 20, p. 13, col. 4:...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Blue Hen State
·add. ·- The State of Delaware;
— a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blue Anchor Alley
1) In Great Minories (Dodsley, 1761).
Not further identified.
2) In St. Katherine's precinct (Dods...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Anchor Court
In Salisbury Court, Fleet Street (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Blue Anchor Inn
On the south-west side of Duck Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without, at the Corner of Little Britain (O....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.