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Cold
·vi To become cold.
II. Cold ·noun Not pungent or acrid.
III. Cold ·noun Not sensitive; not acute....
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cold
You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or advice to desist from an attempt. He caught cold by ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Short
·noun A summary account.
II. Short ·noun Short, inferior hemp.
III. Short ·noun Breeches; shortclo...
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short
"Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...
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Cold wave
·add. ·- In the terminology of the United States Weather Bureau, an unusual fall in temperature, to ...
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Cold-blooded
·adj Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
II. Cold-blooded ·adj Not thoroughbred;
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Cold-hearted
·adj Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.
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Cold-shut
·noun An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.
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Key-cold
·adj Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
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Stone-cold
·adj Cold as a stone.
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Cold Abbeye
A tenement so called in Wendageynes Lane held under the Fraternity of St. Katherine in the Church of...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cold pye
A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold burning
A punishment inflicted by private soldiers on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of the...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold cook
An undertaker of funerals, or carrion hunter.
See carrion hunter.
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cold iron
A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his be...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold meat
A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man's house.
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cold pig
To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pull...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold pudding
This is said to settle one's love.
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bitter cold
Very cold. This common colloquial expression is used alike in England and America.
Those who say it...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cold fire
a fire laid ready for lighting. York.
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cold-chisel
A stout chisel made of steel, used for cutting iron when it is cold.
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cold-eel
The Gymnotus electricus.
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Hot-short
·adj More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.
II. Hot-short ·add. ·adj Brittle when he...
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Red-short
·adj Hot-short; brittle when red-hot;
— said of certain kinds of iron.
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Short circuit
·- A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of rela...
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Short-breathed
·adj Having short life.
II. Short-breathed ·adj Having short-breath, or quick respiration.
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Short-circuit
·vt To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor...
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Short-circuited
·Impf & ·p.p. of Short-circuit.
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Short-circuiting
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Short-circuit.
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Short-dated
·adj Having little time to run from the date.
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Short-handed
·adj Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
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Short-jointed
·adj Having short intervals between the joints;
— said of a plant or an animal, especially of a hor...
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Short-lived
·adj Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short...
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Short-spoken
·adj Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
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Short-waisted
·adj Having a short waist.
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Short-winded
·adj Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthm...
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Short-wited
·adj Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
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Short Street
West out of Finsbury Pavement, at No. 65, to Little Moorfields (P.O. Directory). In Coleman Street W...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to cut short
To hinder from proceeding by sudden interruption,--Johnson.
The judge cut off the counsel very shor...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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short-comings
Defective performance; deficiency as to duty.--Worcester.
Here is proof that very little was known ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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short gown
A short gown with hardly any skirt, worn by women when doing household work, as washing, &c.
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hove-short
The ship with her cable hove taut towards her anchor, when the sails are usually loosed and braced f...
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short stay
"Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...
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short apeek
"Heave short," means to heave in the cable till it is nearly up and down, and would hold the vessel ...
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short allowance
When the provisions will not last the period expected, they may be reduced in part, as two-thirds, h...
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short boards
Frequent tacking, where there is not room for long boards, or from some other cause, as weather or t...
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short-handed
A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list.
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short-sea
A confused cross sea where the waves assume a jerking rippling action, and set home to the bows or s...
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short-service
Chafing geer put on a hemp cable for a short range.
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short-sheets
Belong to shifting sails, such as studding-sails, &c.
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short-tacks
See short boards.
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short-time
or sand glass.
One of 14 seconds, used in heaving the log when the ship is going fast.
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short-heeled wench
A girl apt to fall on her back.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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long and short
The end; the result; the upshot.
You see I should have bore down on Sol Gills yesterday, but she to...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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heave short, to
To heave in on the cable until the vessel is nearly over her anchor, or sufficiently near it for sai...
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short-linked chain
A cable without studs, and therefore with shorter links than those of stud-chains; such are slings a...
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cold as presbyterian charity
I know not the origin of this saying, and am not aware that there is less charity in this sect than ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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long and short boards
See tack and half-tack.
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