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color
cŏlor (old form cŏlos, like arbos, clamos, honos, etc., Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 43; Lucr. 6, 208; 6, 107...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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color
color (old colōs, S., L.), ōris, m 2 CAL-, color, hue, tint : nivis, O.: caeruleus, Cs.: Tyrios mi...
An Elementary Latin Dictionary
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Color
·vt To <<Hide>>.
II. Color ·noun Any hue distinguished from white or black.
III. Color ·noun Shade...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blind
·noun A halting place.
II. Blind ·adj Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
III. Blind ·n...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blind
Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be tre...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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blind
A feint, pretence, or shift.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind
I.
A name on the west coast of Scotland for the pogge, or miller's thumb (Cottus cataphractus).
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Color sergeant
·- ·see under <<Sergeant>>.
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Isabel color
·- ·see <<Isabella>>.
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Isabella color
·- A brownish yellow color.
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Self-color
·noun A color not mixed or variegated.
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Slate-color
·- A dark bluish gray color.
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Three-color
·add. ·adj Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Water color
·- A picture painted with such colors.
II. Water color ·- A color ground with water and gum or othe...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blind reader
·add. ·- A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.
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Hoodman-blind
·noun An old term for blindman's buff.
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Sand-blind
·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.
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Snow-blind
·adj Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow.
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Star-blind
·adj Half blind.
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Stock-blind
·adj Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
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Stone-blind
·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind.
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Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel
(fl. 1470-1492)
Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skil...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Blind, Mathilde
(1841-1896)
Poetess, b. at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, and pub. several books of po...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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blind cheeks
The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind excuse
A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or fre...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind harpers
Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind cupid
The backside.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind shark
or Sand Shark
,n. i.q. Shovel-nose (q.v.).
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of N...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blind-worm
the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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blind-bucklers
Those fitted for the hawse-holes, which have no aperture for the cable, and therefore used at sea to...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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blind-harbour
One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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blind-rock
One lying just under the surface of the water, so as not to be visible in calms.
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blind-shell
One which, from accident or bad fuze, has fallen without exploding, or one purposely filled with lea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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blind-stakes
A sort of river-weir.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Blind Chapel Court
See Blanch Appleton Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cupid, blind cupid
A jeering name for an ugly blind man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted blind.
See b...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind-your-eyes
n.
another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove.
♣ ~, doing the
v. lounging in thefashionabl...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.