·add. ·- Abscess of the mammary gland.
·noun The front of a furnace. II. Breast ·noun The face of a coal working. III. Breast ·noun A <<T...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·vt Subdued; humbled; contrite. II. Broken ·p.p. of <<Break>>. III. Broken ·vt Subjugated; trained...
An old army word, used for reduced; as, a broken lieutenant, &c. The word is also applied to troops ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. ...
·adj High as the breast. ...
·noun The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; — commonly applied...
He or she belongs to the breast fleet; i.e. is a Roman catholic; an appellation derived from their c...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
To run abeam of a cape or object. To cut through a sea, the surface of which is poetically termed br...
They extend from the head of an upper-mast, through an out-rigger, down to the channels before the s...
Those beams at the fore-part of the quarter-deck, and the after-part of the forecastle, in those ves...
A large rope or chain, used to confine a ship's broadside to a wharf or quay, or to some other ship,...
An old term for bunt-gaskets. ...
Thick pieces of timber, incurvated into the form of knees, and used to strengthen the fore-part of a...
The upper rail of the balcony; formerly it was applied to a railing in front of the quarter-deck, an...
The lashing or laniard of the yard-parrels. (See also horse.) Also, the bight of a mat-worked band f...
A sort of balustrade of rails, mouldings, or stanchions, which terminates the quarter-deck and poop ...
·- The <<Heaves>>. ...
·adj Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair. II. Broken-backed ·adj Hogged; so weakened in...
·adj Having a ruptured belly. ...
·adj Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. ...
·adj Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse. ...
·adj Broken out, or marked, with smallpox; pock-fretten. ...
·adj Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air c...
At the western end of Cheapside. near the church of St. Michael le Querne. Erected by the Earl of Gl...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Described variously as a place, a tavern and a tenement on the south side of Westchepe opposite le S...
South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 41a, to the Thames, in Queenhithe Ward (P.O. Directory). Opp...
The state of a ship so loosened in her frame, either by age, weakness, or some great strain from gro...
Fallen off, in azimuth, from the course. Also, men taken from one duty to be put on another. ...
When the clouds separate in divisions, passing ahead and astern of a ship, and affecting her but lit...
The contention of currents in a narrow channel. Also, the waves breaking on and near shallows, occas...
An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have...
Erected by Bevis Bulmer in 1594 within the gate of an old stone house belonging to the Duke of Norfo...