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Rag
·noun A ragged edge.
II. Rag ·vi To become tattered.
III. Rag ·noun A sail, or any piece of canvas...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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rag
1) Bank notes. Money in general. The cove has no rag; the fellow has no money.
2) A farthing.
TO R...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rag
to scold opprobriously ; I ragg'd him for it. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Coral
·noun The ovaries of a cooked lobster;
— so called from their color.
II. Coral ·noun A piece of co...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Coral
Heb. ramoth, meaning "heights;" i.e., "high-priced" or valuable things, or, as some suppose, "that w...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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coral
n.
See bats-wing-coral.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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coral
A name applied to the hard calcareous support or skeleton of many species of marine zoophytes. The c...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Coral
(Ezekiel 27:16) A production of the sea, formed by minute animals called zoophytes. It is their shel...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Shag-rag
·noun The unkempt and ragged part of the community.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Tag-rag
·noun & ·adj The lowest class of people; the rabble. ·cf. <<Rag>>, tag, and bobtail, under <<Bobtail...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Rag Fair
See Royal Mint Street.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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rag carrier
An ensign.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rag fair
An inspection of the linen and necessaries of a company of soldiers, commonly made by their officers...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rag water
Gin, or any other common dram: these liquors seldom failing to reduce those that drink them to rags....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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red rag
The tongue. Shut your potatoe trap, and give your red rag a holiday; i.e. shut your mouth, and let y...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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rag-bolts
Those which are jagged or barbed, to prevent working in their holes, and to make them hold more secu...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Coral fish
·- Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which l...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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coral-fern
n.
name given in Victoria to Gleichenia circinata, Swartz, called in Bailey's list Parasol-Fern. Se...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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coral-flower
n.
a plant, Epacris (q.v.), Epacris microphylla, R. Br., N.O. Epacrideae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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coral pea
n.
another name for the Kennedya (q.v.).
1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 53:
«The trailing sc...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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pea, coral
n. See coral pea.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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coral-band
See sand and coral bank or islet.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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pack-rag day
Michaelmas-day, when servants change their places, and remove their clothes. Norf. and Suff.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Stag-horn coral
·- ·Alt. of Stag-horn fern.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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bats-wing-coral
n.
the Australian wood Erythrina vespertilio, Bentham, N.O. Leguminosae.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Usef...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tag-rag and bobtail
An expression meaning an assemblage of low people, the mobility of all sorts. To tag after one like ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sand and coral bank
An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...
The Sailor's Word-Book