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brown bill
The old weapon of the English infantry: hence, perhaps the expression "Brown Bess" for a musket.
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Brown
·vi To become brown.
II. Brown ·vt To make brown or dusky.
III. Brown ·vt To make brown by scorchi...
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Bill
·noun A pickax, or mattock.
II. Bill ·noun One who wields a bill; a billman.
III. Bill ·noun The b...
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bill
A weapon or implement of war, a pike or halbert of the English infantry. It was formerly carried by ...
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Brown race
·add. ·- The Malay or Polynesian race;
— loosely so called.
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Brown thrush
·- A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird;
— also called ...
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Cassel brown
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Cassel earth.
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Hair-brown
·adj Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of r...
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Nut-brown
·adj Brown as a nut long kept and dried.
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Seal-brown
·adj Of a rich dark brown color, like the fur of the fur seal after it is dyed.
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Whity-brown
·adj Of a color between white and brown.
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Brown, Thomas
(1778-1820)
Metaphysician, s. of the Rev. Samuel B., minister of Kirkinabreck, practised for some t...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Tom
(1663-1704)
Satirist, was ed. at Oxf., and there composed the famous epigram on Dr. Fell. He was fo...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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brown bess
A soldier's firelock. To hug brown Bess; to carry a firelock, or serve as a private soldier.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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brown george
An ammunition loaf, A wig without powder; similar to the undress wig worn by his majesty.
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brown madam, or miss brown
The monosyllable.
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brown study
Said of one absent, in a reverie, or thoughtful.
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brown snake
n. See under snake.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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brown-tail
n.
bird-name for the TasmanianTit. See Tit.
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii, pl. 54...
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brown study
Deep thought; absence of mind. "He is in a brown study," i. e. in deep thought, or intent upon his b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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brown thrasher
(Ferruginous thrush. Audubon Ornith.) The popular name of the brown thrush. It is also called the gr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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done brown
Thoroughly, effectually cheated, bamboozled. Of recent origin.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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brown bread
For RAVEL-BREAD, see Cowel's Interpreter in voce PANIS.
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brown bess
A nickname for the old government regulation bronzed musket, although till recently it was brightly ...
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brown george
A hard and coarse biscuit.
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brown janet
A cant phrase for a knapsack.
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Bank bill
·- In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand...
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Bill book
·- A book in which a person keeps an account of his notes, bills, bills of exchange, ·etc., thus sho...
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Bill broker
·- One who negotiates the discount of bills.
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Bill holder
·- A person who holds a bill or acceptance.
II. Bill holder ·- A device by means of which bills, ·e...
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Crane's-bill
·noun A pair of long-beaked forceps.
II. Crane's-bill ·noun The geranium;
— so named from the long...
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Duck's-bill
·adj Having the form of a duck's bill.
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Hedging bill
·- A hedge bill. ·see under <<Hedge>>.
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Ivory-bill
·noun A large, handsome, North American woodpecker (Campephilus principalis), having a large, sharp,...
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Parrot's-bill
·noun The glory pea. ·see under <<Glory>>.
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Ripper bill
·add. ·- An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of...
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Speckled-bill
·noun The American white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons).
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Bill Alley
See Billet Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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apothecary's bill
A long bill.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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channel-bill
n.
name given to a birdresembling a large cuckoo, Scythrops novae-hollandiae,Lath. See Scythrops.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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kaka-bill
n.
a New Zealand plant, the Clianthus (q.v.), so called from the supposedresemblance of the flower ...
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parrot-bill
n.
See kaka-bill.
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red-bill
n.
bird-name given to Estrelda temporalis, Lath. It is also appliedto the Oyster-catchers (q.v.); a...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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spine-bill
n.
an Australian «Honey-eater,» but not now so classed. There are two species – – The Slender Spine...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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wedge-bill
n.
an Australian bird. ThisEnglish name for a species of humming-bird is applied inAustralia to Sph...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bank-bill
A bank-note.
Neither Johnson nor the other lexicographers have the term bank-note, though they all ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cranes-bill
(Geranium maculatum.) The popular name of a native geranium, which grows about fences and the edges ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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way-bill
A list of the passengers in a stage-coach, railroad car, steamboat, or other public conveyance.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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stock's-bill
geranium Robertianum. N.
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bill-boards
Doubling under the fore-channels to the water-line, to protect the planking from the bill of the anc...
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bill-fish
See gar-fish.
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bill-hook
A species of hatchet used in wooding a ship, similar to that used by hedgers.
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butcher's bill
A nickname for the official return of killed and wounded which follows an action.
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clean bill
(See bill of health.) When all are in health.
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cock-bill
The situation of the anchor when suspended from the cat-head ready for letting go. Also said of a ca...
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fire-bill
The distribution of the officers and crew in case of the alarm of fire, a calamity requiring judicio...
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foul bill
See bill of health.
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hawk's-bill
♦ Chelone imbricata, a well-known turtle frequenting the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, so named from h...
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quarter-bill
A list containing the different stations to which the officers and crew are quartered in time of act...
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quarterly bill
The document by which officers draw three months' personal pay.
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razor-bill
A sea-fowl allied to the auks, Alca torda.
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saw-bill
A name for the goosander, Mergus merganser.
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station-bill
A list containing the appointed posts of the crew when performing any evolution but action.
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victualling-bill
A custom-house document, warranting the shipment of such bonded stores as the master of an outward-b...
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watch-bill
The pocket "watch and station bill," which each officer is expected to produce if required, and inst...
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Brown, Charles Brockden
(1771-1810)
Novelist, b. in Philadelphia, belonged to a Quaker family, became a lawyer, but exchang...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, George Douglas
(1869-1902)
Novelist, wrote The House with the Green Shutters, which gives a strongly outlined pict...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Dr. John
(1810-1882)
Physician and essayist, s. of John B., D.D., a distinguished dissenting minister in Edi...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Thomas Edward
(1830-1897)
Poet, b. at Douglas, Isle of Man, s. of a clergyman, and ed. there and at Oxf., entered...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Peter Hume
LL.D.
(b. 1850)
Historian. George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer (1890), Early Travellers in Scot...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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brown tree-lizard
n.
of New Zealand, Naultinus pacificus.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whity-brown bread
See ravel-bread before.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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whity-brown paper
See ravel-bread before.
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brown-paper warrant
See warrant.
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bill at sight
To pay a bill at sight; to be ready at all times for the venereal act.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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bill of sale
A widow's weeds.
See house to let.
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bill of exchange
A means of remitting money from one country to another. The receiver must present it for acceptance ...
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bill of freedom
A full pass for a neutral in time of war.
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bill of health
A certificate properly authenticated by the consul, or other proper authority at any port, that the ...
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bill of lading
A memorandum by which the master of a ship acknowledges the receipt of the goods specified therein, ...
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bill of sale
A written document by which the property of a vessel, or shares thereof, are transferred to a purcha...
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bill of view
See bill of sight
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bill of sight
, or bill of view
A warrant for a custom-house officer to examine goods which had been shipped for...
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bill of store
A kind of license, or custom-house permission, for re-importing unsold goods from foreign ports duty...
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Brown Bear Alley or Court
North out of Upper East Smithfield, at No. 1, in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate (L.C.C. List, 19...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.