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box
bōx, bōcis, m., = βώξ, βόαξ, a sea-fish , otherwise unknown, Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 145. In Paul. ex ...
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Box
·noun A small country house.
II. Box ·vt To inclose in a box.
III. Box ·noun The quantity that a b...
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Box
For holding oil or perfumery (Mark 14:3). It was of the form of a flask or bottle. The Hebrew word (...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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box
I.
Box-tree
Box-gum
,n.
The name is applied to many Eucalypts, and toa few trees of the genus Tr...
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box
The space between the back-board and the stern-post of a boat, where the coxswain sits.
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Tail
·noun ·see <<Tailing>>, ·noun, 5.
II. Tail ·noun Limitation; abridgment.
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tail
A prostitute. Also, a sword.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tail
v. tr.
to herd and tend sheep or cattle:lit. to follow close behind the tail.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tail
A rope spliced into the strop or round of any block, leaving a long end for making fast to rigging, ...
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Axle box
·- The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.
II. Axle box ·- A bushing in the ...
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Box kite
·add. ·- A kite, invented by Lawrence Hargrave, of Sydney, Australia, which consist of two light rec...
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Box-iron
·noun A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.
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Ditty-box
·noun A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, ·etc.
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Drudging box
·- ·see Dredging box.
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Junction box
·add. ·- A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and wher...
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Pepper box
·add. ·noun A buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College,...
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Pouchet box
·- ·see Pouncet box.
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Pouncet box
·- A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes.
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Touch-box
·noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle t...
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Vanity box
·add. ·- A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror,...
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Box-tree
(Heb. teashshur), mentioned in Isa. 60:13; 41:19, was, according to some, a species of cedar growing...
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black box
A lawyer. Cant.
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bone box
The mouth. Shut your bone box; shut your mouth.
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butter box
A Dutchman, from the great quantity of butter eaten by the people of that country.
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chatter box
One whose tongue runs twelve score to the dozen, a chattering man or woman.
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eternity box
A coffin.
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juggler's box
The engine for burning culprits in the hand. CANT.
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knowledge box
The head.
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prattling box
The pulpit.
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sauce box
A term of familiar raillery, signifying a bold or forward person.
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badger-box
n.
slang name for a roughly-constructed dwelling.
1875. `Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasma...
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match-box
See bean, Queensland
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box-wood
n.
a New Zealand wood, Olealanceolata, Hook., N.O. Jasminea (Maori name, Maire). Used by the `Welli...
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dwarf-box
n.
Eucalyptus microtheca,F. v. M. See Box. This tree has also many other names.See Maiden's `Useful...
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native box
n.
See box.
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poplar-box
n.
See box.
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bad box
To be in a bad box, is to be in a bad predicament.
I began to be afraid now I'd got into rather a b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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chatter-box
One whose tongue runs incessantly.--Todd.
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butter-box
A name given to the brig-traders of lumpy form, from London, Bristol, and other English ports. A can...
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cartouch-box
The accoutrement which contains the musket-cartridges: now generally called a pouch.
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cartridge-box
A cylindrical wooden box with a lid sliding upon a handle of small rope, just containing one cartrid...
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ditty-box
A small caddy for holding a seaman's stock of valuables.
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fire-box
A space crossing the whole front of the boiler over the furnace doors, opposite the smoke-box.
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hawse-box
, or naval hood.
Pieces of plank bolted outside round each of the hawse-holes, to support the proj...
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limber-box
Synonymous with limber-trunk.
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paddle-box
The frame of wood which encircles the upper part of the paddle-wheel.
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salt-box
A case for keeping a temporary supply of cartridges for the immediate use of the great guns; it is u...
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smoke-box
A part which crosses the whole front of a marine boiler, over the furnace doors; or that part betwee...
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stuffing-box
A contrivance on the top of a steam cylinder-cover, packed with hemp, and kept well soaked with tall...
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touch-box
The receptacle for lighted tinder when match-locks were used.
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Boat-tail
·noun A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
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Cat's-tail
·noun ·see <<Timothy>>, Cat-tail, <<Cirrus>>.
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Cat-tail
·noun A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having i...
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Cross-tail
·noun A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.
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Daggle-tail
·noun A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.
II. Daggle-tail ·adj ·Alt. of Daggle-tailed.
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Drabble-tail
·noun A draggle-tail; a slattern.
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Draggle-tail
·noun A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.
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Dragon's tail
·- ·see Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, ·etc., under <<Dragon>>.
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Fish-tail
·adj Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish.
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Hare's-tail
·noun A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). ·see Cotton grass, under <<Cotton>>.
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Lion's tail
·- A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus);
— so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spike...
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Lizard's tail
·- A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flower...
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Mare's-tail
·noun An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls.
II. Mar...
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Racket-tail
·noun Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail fea...
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Rat-tail
·noun Any fish of the genus Macrurus. ·see <<Grenadier>>, 2.
II. Rat-tail ·noun The California chim...
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Split-tail
·noun The pintail duck.
II. Split-tail ·noun A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus)...
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Tail-bay
·noun The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
II. Tail-bay ·noun One of the joists which re...
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Tail-water
·noun Water in a tailrace.
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Teeter-tail
·noun The spotted sandpiper. ·see the Note under <<Sandpiper>>.
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Triple-tail
·noun An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common ...
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bob tail
A lewd woman, or one that plays with her tail; also an impotent man, or an eunuch. Tag, rag, and bob...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dove-tail
A species of regular answer, which fits into the subject, like the contrivance whence it takes its n...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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plug tail
A man's penis.
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swish tail
A pheasant; so called by the persons who sell game for the poachers.
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tickle tail
A rod, or schoolmaster. A man's penis.
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brown-tail
n.
bird-name for the TasmanianTit. See Tit.
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii, pl. 54...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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cat's tail
n.
See wonga.
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jolly-tail
n.
a Tasmanian name for the largervariety of the fish Galaxias attenuatus, Jenyns, andother species...
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ring-tail
or Ring-tailed Opossum
n.
See pseudochirus and opossum.
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silver-tail
n.
a bush term for a «swell» :a man who goes to the manager's house, not to the men's hut.See Hut.
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whip-tail
n.
1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation.
2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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yellow-tail
n.
The name is given in Victoriato the fish Caranx trachurus, Cuv. and Val.; the Horse-Mackerel (q....
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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club-tail
(Genus alosa.) The common shad, the fatter portion of which have the tail swollen, and on the coast ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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swingle-tail
(Genus, carcharias. Cuvier.) The popular name for the Thresher Shark, from the use it makes of its l...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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tail-race
The water course leading from a mill after it has passed the water-wheel.
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cawsie-tail
a dunce. N. Rather CAWFE-TAIL, i. e. calf-tail. Lane.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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tail-ends
the refuse of wheat or other corn, not saleable in the market, but kept by farmers for their own con...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cat's-tail
The inner part of the cat-head, that fays down upon the cat-beam.
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cross-tail
In a steam-engine, is of the same form as the cylinder cross-head: it has iron straps catching the p...
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culver-tail
The fastenings of a ship's carlings into the beams.
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dog's tail
A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear.
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dove-tail
The fastening or letting in of one timber into another by a dove-tailed end and score, so that they ...
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monkey-tail
A lever for training a carronade.
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pig-tail
The common twisted tobacco for chewing.
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pin-tail
The Anas acuta, a species of duck with a long pointed tail. Also, in artillery, the iron pin on the ...
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rat's-tail
The tapering end of a rope. Also, the round tapered file for enlarging holes in metal.
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ring-tail
A kind of studding-sail hoisted beyond the after edge of those sails which are extended by a gaff an...
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swallow's tail
In fortification, an old form of outwork, having its front broken into a re-entering angle, and its ...
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tail-block
A rope-stropped block, having an end of rope attached to it as a tail, by which it may be fastened t...
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tail on
, or tally on
The order to clap on to a rope.
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tail-race
The water which leaves the paddles of a steam-boat. Also, the water-course of a mill beyond the wate...
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tail-tackle
A luff-tackle purchase, with a hook in the end of the single block, and a tail to the upper end of t...
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tail up
When a whale dives perpendicularly. In this case whalers expect the fish to rise near the same spot....
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tail-valve
A valve in the air-pump at the opposite side from the condenser, and connected with the latter by a ...
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yellow-tail
A well-known tropical fish, often in company with whip-rays; it is about 4 feet long, with a great h...
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to box the compass
To say or repeat the mariner's compass, not only backwards or forwards, but also to be able to answe...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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to box the jesuit, and get cock roaches
A sea term for masturbation; a crime, it is said, much practised by the reverend fathers of that soc...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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match-box bean
n.
another name for the ripehard seed of the Queensland Bean, Entadascandens, Benth., N.O. Legumino...
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paddle-box boats
Boats made to fit the paddle-box rim, stowed bottom upwards on each box.
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Dog's-tail grass
·noun A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is we...
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bang-tail muster
See quotation.
1887. W. S. S. Tyrwhitt, `The New Churn in the Queensland Bush,'p. 61:
«Every third...
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kangaroo-tail soup
n.
soup made from thekangaroo-tail.
1820. W. C. Wentworth, `Description of New South Wales,'p. 58:...
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mersey jolly-tail
n.
See jolly-tail.
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pieman jolly-tail
n. See jolly-tail.
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rat-tail grass
n.
name given to – – (1) Ischaemum laxum, R. Br., N.O. Gramineae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Nati...
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cat-tail grass
Herds grass, or timothy.
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dove-tail plates
Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...
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jack in a box
A sharper, or cheat. A child in the mother's womb.
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Jack in a Box
i.q. Hair-trigger (q.v.).
1854. `The Home Companion,' p. 554:
«When previously mentioning the eleg...
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box the compass, to
Not only to repeat the names of the thirty-two points in order and backwards, but also to be able to...
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jack in the box
A very handy engine, consisting of a large wooden male screw turning in a female one, which forms th...
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tail of a gale
The latter part of a gale, when its violence is dying out.
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to get the wrong pig by the tail
is to make a mistake in selecting a person for any object. If a charge is made against a man, who on...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.