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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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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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Tongue
·noun Any small sole.
II. Tongue ·noun The clapper of a bell.
III. Tongue ·noun ·same·as <<Reed>>,...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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tongue
Tongue enough for two sets of teeth: said of a talkative person. As old as my tongue, and a little o...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tongue
[Anglo-Saxon tunga]. The long tapered end of one piece of timber made to fay into a scarph at the en...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dog's-bane
·noun ·see <<Dogbane>>.
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Dog's-ear
·noun The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog.
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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 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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dog's tail
A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear.
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fog-dogs
Those transient prismatic breaks which occur in thick mists, and considered good symptoms of the wea...
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ring-dogs
Iron implements for hauling timber along: made by connecting two common dogs by a ring through the e...
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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...
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Adder's-tongue
·noun The yellow dogtooth violet.
II. Adder's-tongue ·noun A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose s...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Bird's-tongue
·noun The knotgrass (Polygonum aviculare).
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Deer's-tongue
·noun A plant (Liatris odoratissima) whose fleshy leaves give out a fragrance compared to vanilla.
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Double-tongue
·noun Deceit; duplicity.
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Earth-tongue
·noun A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
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Hart-tongue
·noun A common British fern (Scolopendrium vulgare), rare in America.
II. Hart-tongue ·noun A West ...
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Hound's-tongue
·noun A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odo...
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Long-tongue
·noun The <<Wryneck>>.
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Snake's-tongue
·noun ·same·as Adder's-tongue.
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Tongue-pad
·noun A great talker.
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Tongue-shaped
·adj Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and ...
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Tongue-shell
·noun Any species of Lingula.
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Tongue-tie
·vt To deprive of speech or the power of speech, or of distinct articulation.
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Tongue-tied
·adj Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause.
II. Tongue-tied ·adj Destitute of the power of di...
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loll tongue
He has been playing a game at loll tongue; he has been salivated.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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calve's tongue
A sort of moulding usually made at the caps and bases of round pillars, to taper or hance the round ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dog-tongue
A name assigned to a kind of sole.
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horse-tongue
A name applied to a kind of sole.
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ice-tongue
See tongue.
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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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buttock and tongue
A scolding wife.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tongue of a bevel
The movable part of the instrument by which the angles or bevellings are taken.
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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.