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dogs
To go to the dogs. To go to destruction; to be ruined, destroyed, or devoured.--Johnson.
Had whol...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dogs
The last supports knocked away at the launching of a ship.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Ear
·noun The organ of hearing; the external ear.
II. Ear ·noun ·same·as <<Crossette>>.
III. Ear ·noun...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ear
Used frequently in a figurative sense (Ps. 34:15). To "uncover the ear" is to show respect to a pers...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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ear
A west-country term for a place where hatches prevent the influx of the tide.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dog's-bane
·noun ·see <<Dogbane>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's-tongue
·noun Hound's-tongue.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's Head
In Aldersgate Street (P.C. 1732).
Not named in the maps.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's portion
A lick and a smell. He comes in for only a dog's portion; a saying of one who is a distant admirer o...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's rig
To copulate till you are tired, and then turn tail to it.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's soup
Rain water.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's wife
Jocular ways of calling a woman a bitch.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dog's tongue
n.
name given to the plant Cynoglossum suaveolens, R. Br., N.O. Asperifoliae.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dog's bane
(Apocynum androsæmifolium.) The common name of a shrub, which grows along the road-side and borders ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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dog's tail
A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fog-dogs
Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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ring-dogs
Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sling-dogs
In timber lifting, a dog is an iron implement with a fang at one end, and an eye at the other, in wh...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bear's-ear
·noun A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Crop-ear
·noun A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ear-bored
·adj Having the ear perforated.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ear-minded
·add. ·adj Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; s...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ear-piercer
·noun The <<Earwig>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ear-shell
·noun A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis;
— called also sea-ear. ·see <<Abalon...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Ear-splitting
·adj Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hare's-ear
·noun An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium );
— so named from the shape of its leaves.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hart's-ear
·noun An Asiatic species of Cacalia (C. Kleinia), used medicinally in India.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Jew's-ear
·noun A species of fungus (Hirneola Auricula-Judae, / Auricula), bearing some resemblance to the hum...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lion's ear
·- A name given in Western South America to certain plants with shaggy tomentose leaves, as species ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Midas's ear
·- A pulmonate mollusk (Auricula, / Ellobium, aurismidae);
— so called from resemblance to a human ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Mouse-ear
·noun A European species of hawkweed (Hieracium Pilosella).
II. Mouse-ear ·noun The forget-me-not (...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sea-ear
·noun Any species of ear-shaped shells of the genus Haliotis. ·see <<Abalone>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Violet-ear
·add. ·noun Any tropical humming bird of the genus Petasophora, having violet or purplish ear tufts....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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White-ear
·noun The <<Wheatear>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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ear-shot
The distance or range of hearing.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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ear-wigging
Feeding an officer's ear with scandal against an absent individual.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dog's-tail grass
·noun A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is we...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dog's Head in the Pot
A shop called the Dogges Hedde in the potte in parish of St. Peter in Cheap, 4 Ed. VI. 1550 (Lond. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Dog's Head and Pottage-Pot Court
Out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (W. Stow, 1722-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.