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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 Hen State
·add. ·- The State of Delaware;
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Blue-eyed grass
·- a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.
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State
·noun Estate, possession.
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state
To lie in state; to be in bed with three harlots.
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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.
In the former sense it is applied especially to the Presbyterian...
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blue
♦ Till all's blue: carried to the utmost a phrase borrowed from the idea of a vessel making out of p...
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Grass
·vi To produce grass.
II. Grass ·noun The season of fresh grass; spring.
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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.
In Australia, as elsewhere, the name Grass is sometimes given to plants which are not of thenatu...
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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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Badger State
·add. ·- Wisconsin;
— a nickname.
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Bay State
·add. ·- Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay;
— a nickname.
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Bayou State
·add. ·- Mississippi;
— a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
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Bear State
·add. ·- Arkansas;
— a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.
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Beaver State
·add. ·- Oregon;
— a nickname.
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Blackwater State
·add. ·- Nebraska;
— a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the p...
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Centennial State
·add. ·- Colorado;
— a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the cente...
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Chinook State
·add. ·- Washington — a nickname. ·see <<Chinook>>, ·noun.
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Cotton State
·add. ·- Alabama;
— a nickname.
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Coyote State
·add. ·- South Dakota;
— a nickname.
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Cracker State
·add. ·- Georgia;
— a nickname. ·see <<Cracker>>, ·noun 5.
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Creole State
·add. ·- Louisiana;
— a nickname. ·see <<Creole>>, ·noun & a.
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Diamond State
·add. ·- Delaware;
— a nickname alluding to its small size.
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Empire State
·add. ·- New York;
— a nickname alluding to its size and wealth.
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Evergreen State
·add. ·- Washington;
— a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees.
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Flower State
·add. ·- Florida;
— a nickname, alluding to sense of ·Lat. floridus, from florida flowery. ·see <<F...
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Golden State
·add. ·- California;
— a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.
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Gopher State
·add. ·- Minnesota;
— a nickname alluding to the abundance of gophers.
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Granite State
·- New Hampshire;
— a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.
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Hawkeye State
·add. ·- Iowa;
— a nickname of obscure origin.
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Hoosier State
·add. ·- Indiana;
— a nickname of obscure origin.
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Keystone State
·add. ·- Pennsylvania;
— a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original ...
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Lumber State
·add. ·- Maine;
— a nickname.
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Mountain State
·add. ·- Montana;
— a nickname.
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Palmetto State
·add. ·- South California;
— a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation ...
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Panhandle State
·add. ·- West Virginia;
— a nickname.
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Pelican State
·add. ·- Louisiana;
— a nickname alluding to the device on its seal.
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Peninsula State
·add. ·- Florida;
— a nickname.
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Prairie State
·add. ·- Illinois;
— a nickname.
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Sagebrush State
·add. ·- Nevada;
— a nickname.
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Silver State
·add. ·- Nevada;
— a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
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Sioux State
·add. ·- North Dakota;
— a nickname.
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Sooner State
·add. ·- Oklahoma;
— a nickname.
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State socialism
·add. ·- A form of socialism, ·esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of privat...
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Sucker State
·add. ·- Illinois;
— a nickname.
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Sunflower State
·add. ·- Kansas; a nickname.
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Turpentine State
·add. ·- North Carolina;
— a nickname alluding to its extensive production of turpentine.
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Volunteer State
·add. ·- Tennessee;
— a nickname.
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Wolverene State
·add. ·- Michigan;
— a nickname.
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bay state
The State of Massachusetts. The original name of the Colony was Massachusetts Bay. Hence, among the ...
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bear state
A name by which the State of Arkansas is known at the West. I once asked a Western man if Arkansas a...
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bullion state
The State of Missouri; so called in consequence of the exertions made by its Senator, Mr. Benton, in...
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empire state
The State of New York; so called from the enterprise of its people, its wealth, population, extent o...
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granite state
The State of New Hampshire, so called from the abundance of this material found in it.
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keystone state
The State of Pennsylvania. So called from its being the central State of the Union at the time of th...
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palmetto state
The State or capital of South Carolina; so called from the arms of the State, which contain a palmet...
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state-room
A small room in a ship or steam-vessel for one or two passengers.--Worcester.
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state-room
A sleeping cabin, or small berth, detached from the main cabin of merchantmen or saloon of passenger...
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Blue bonnet
·noun ·Alt. of Blue-bonnet.
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Blue book
·- The United States official "Biennial Register.".
II. Blue book ·- A parliamentary publication, s...
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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-eyed
·adj Having blue eyes.
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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).
"Blew Bell," in Cheapsyde me...
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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
1) West out of White Cross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
The site is now occu...
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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
A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross ...
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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.).
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. p...
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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.
"Pray, sir," said one of my fellow passengers, "can you...
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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
1) The American avoset (recurvirostra Americana). A common bird in the Northern States.--Nat. Hist. ...
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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
The signal for sailing when hoisted at the fore-topmast head; this well-known flag has a blue ground...
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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.
II. Grass-green ·adj Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green.
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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
·- A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly ...
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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);
— called also rye grass, and red darnel. ·see <<Dar...
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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;
— called also herd's grass, in E...
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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:
«Agrostis virginica. Virginian Agrosti...
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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.
a bird of the genus Euphema. The Australian species are – – Blue-winged Parrakeet Euphema aurant...
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grass-tree
n.
1) The name applied to treesof the genus Xanthorrhoea, N.O. Liliaceae, of whichthirteen species ...
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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...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sugar-grass
n.
an Australian grass, Erianthus fulvus, Kunth., N.O. Gramineae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Nati...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sword-grass
n.
In New Zealand, Arundoconspicua; in Australia, Cladium psittacorum,Labill. It is not the same as...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tolmer's grass
n.
a fibrous plant, Lepidosperma gladiatum, Labill., N.O. Cyperaceae,suitable for manufacture of pa...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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travellers' grass
i.q. settler's twine (q.v.).
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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umbrella-grass
i.q. Native Millet, Panicumdecompositum, R. Br., N.O. Gramineae. See Millet. It is called Umbrella-g...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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wallaby-grass
n.
an Australian grass, Danthonia penicillata, F. v. M., N.O. Gramineae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Usef...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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wiry-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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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.
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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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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