Cat's-paw

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• cats-paw

  To be made a cats-paw of. To be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another; an a...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cat's-paw

  A light air perceived at a distance in a calm, by the impressions made on the surface of the sea, wh...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cat's paw

  To be made a cat's paw of; to be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another: an ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Paw

  ·noun The <<Hand>>. II. Paw ·vt To scrape or beat with the forefoot. III. Paw ·noun The foot of a ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• paw

  A hand or foot; look at his dirty paws. Fore paw; the hand. Hind paw; the foot. To paw; to touch or ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• paw paw tricks

  Naughty tricks: an expression used by nurses, &c. to children. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Bear's-paw

  ·noun A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an <<Ornament>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• fox's paw

  The vulgar pronunciation of the French words faux pas. He made a confounded fox's paw. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Cat's-eye

  ·noun A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cat's-foot

  ·noun A plant (Nepeta Glechoma) of the same genus with catnip; ground ivy. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cat's-tail

  ·noun ·see <<Timothy>>, Cat-tail, <<Cirrus>>. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Kilkenny cats

  ·add. ·- Two cats fabled, in an Irish story, to have fought till nothing was left but their tails. I...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Cat's Hole

  East out of Little Tower Hill to St. Katherine's New Court (Horwood, 1799, and Lockie, 1816). Earli...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• cat's foot

  To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife hen-pecked. To live like dog and ca...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat's sleep

  Counterfeit sleep: cats often counterfeiting sleep, to decoy their prey near them, and then suddenly...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat's eyes

  n. Not the true Cat's-eye,but the name given in Australia to the opercula of Turbosmaragdus, Martyn...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cat's tail

  n. See wonga. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cats-foot

  ground-ivy. Northumb. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cat's-skin

  A light partial current of air, as with the cat's-paw. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cat's-tail

  The inner part of the cat-head, that fays down upon the cat-beam. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• cat's-head fern

  n. Aspidium aculeatum, Sw.: 1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 220: «The cat's-...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cats t kerd

  cross, ill-conditioned. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• grinagog, the cat's uncle

  A foolish grinning fellow, one who grins without reason. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose