·adj Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
II. Broken-backed ·adj Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end;
— said of a ship.
The state of a ship so loosened in her frame, either by age, weakness, or some great strain from gro...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Back>>. II. Backed ·adj Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrot...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Dead. He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six m...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·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 ...
·adj Having a bunch on the back; crooked. ...
·adj Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. ...
·adj Round-shoulded. ...
·adj Having a curved spine. ...
·adj Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, ·etc. ...
·adj Having a back like that of roach; — said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave c...
·adj Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered. ...
·adj Having a low back and high neck, as a horse. II. Saddle-backed ·adj Having the outline of the ...
·adj <<Obstinate>>. ...
·adj Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; — ...
Hump-backed. ...
·add. ·- Abscess of the mammary gland. ...
·- The <<Heaves>>. ...
·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...
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...
A species of whalebone whale, the Megaptera longimana, which attains to 45 or 50 feet in length, and...
Erected by Bevis Bulmer in 1594 within the gate of an old stone house belonging to the Duke of Norfo...