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Frame
·vt To <<Support>>.
II. Frame ·vt To provide with a frame, as a picture.
III. Frame ·noun Contriva...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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frame
to set about a thing ; as, he frames well. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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frame
The outer frame timbers of a vessel consist of the keel, stem, stern-posts, and ribs, which when mou...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Neck
·vt & ·vi To kiss and caress amorously.
II. Neck ·noun the point where the base of the stem of a pl...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Neck
Used sometimes figuratively. To "lay down the neck" (Rom. 16:4) is to hazard one's life. Threatening...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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neck
The elbow or part connecting the blade and socket of a bayonet.
♦ Goose-neck, at the ends of booms...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle
·noun A bundle, ·esp. of hay.
II. Bottle ·noun Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle
A vessel made of skins for holding wine (Josh. 9:4. 13; 1 Sam. 16:20; Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Bottle
The Arabs keep their water, milk and other liquids in leathern bottles. These are made of goatskins....
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Frame-up
·add. ·noun A conspiracy or plot, ·esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Resistance frame
·add. ·- A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Water frame
·- A name given to the first power spinning machine, because driven by water power.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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picture frame
The sheriff's picture frame; the gallows or pillory.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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back-frame
A vertical wheel for turning the three whirlers of a small rope-machine.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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frame-timbers
These consist of the floor-timbers, futtocks, and top-timbers; they are placed upon the keel at righ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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rocket-frame
The stand from which Congreve rockets are fired.
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stern-frame
That strong and ornamental union based on the stern-post, transom, and fashion-pieces.
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Deer-neck
·noun A deerlike, or thin, ill-formed neck, as of a horse.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Volcanic neck
·add. ·- A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and late...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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neck stamper
The boy who collects the pots belonging to an alehouse, sent out with beer to private houses.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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neck verse
Formerly the persons claiming the benefit of clergy were obliged to read a verse in a Latin manuscri...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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van-neck
Miss or Mrs. Van-Neck; a woman with large breasts; a bushel bubby.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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ring-neck
n.
the equivalent of Jackaroo (q.v.). A term used in the back blocks in reference to thewhite colla...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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goose-neck
A curved iron, fitted outside the after-chains to receive a spare spar, properly the swinging boom, ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle green
·- A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle-nose
·noun The <<Puffin>>.
II. Bottle-nose ·noun A cetacean of the Dolphin family, of several species, a...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle-nosed
·adj Having the nose bottle-shaped, or large at the end.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Woulfe bottle
·noun A kind of wash bottle with two or three necks;
— so called after the inventor, Peter Woulfe, ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bottle Lane
See Botolph's Lane.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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bottle-headed
Void of wit.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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phos bottle
A. bottle of phosphorus: used by housebreakers to light their lanthorns. Ding the phos; throw away t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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soldier's bottle
A large one.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bottle-brush
n.
name given to various speciesof Callistemon and Melaleuca, N.O. Myrtaceae; the Purple Bottle-bru...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-gourd
n.
an Australian plant, Lagenaria vulgaris, Ser., N.O. Cucurbitaceae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-swallow
n.
a popular name for the bird Lagenoplastis ariel, otherwise called the FairyMartin. See Martin. T...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bottle-tree
n. an Australian tree, variousspecies of Sterculia, i.q. Kurrajong (q.v.). Sonamed from its appearan...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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junk-bottle
The ordinary black glass porter-bottle.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bottle-bump
The bittern, so called on our east coast.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bottle-charts
Those on which the set of surface currents are exhibited, derived from papers found in bottles which...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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bottle-nose
, or bottle-nosed whale
A name applied to several of the smaller cetaceans of the northern seas, m...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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empty bottle
See marine officer.
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sea-bottle
The pod or vesicle of some species of sea-wrack or Fucus gigantea of Cape Horn and the Straits of Ma...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bottle Alley, Bottle Yard, Bishopsgate
See Brittania Place.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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sheriff's picture frame
The gallows.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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wry neck day
Hanging day.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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neck of land
Dividing two portions of water, or it may be the neck of a peninsula.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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bawdy-house bottle
A very small bottle; short measure being among the many means used by the keepers of those houses, t...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bottle-nosed whale
See bottle-nose
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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shot in the neck
Drunk. A Southern phrase.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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neck of a gun
The narrow part where the chase meets the swell of the muzzle.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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neck of the cascable
The part between the swell of the breech of a gun and the button. Its narrowest part within the butt...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Cock and Bottle Court
East out of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 122).
Not name...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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frame of the marine steam-engine
, is the strong supporter of the paddle-shafts and intermediate shaft; it rests on columns, and is f...
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