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Dry
·superl Of the eyes: Not shedding tears.
II. Dry ·superl Of persons: Thirsty; needing drink.
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Stone
·noun A precious stone; a gem.
II. Stone ·noun One of the testes; a testicle.
III. Stone ·noun The...
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Stone
Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events (Gen. 28:18; Josh. 24...
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stone
Two stone under weight, or wanting; an eunuch. Stone doublet; a prison. Stone dead; dead as a stone....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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stone
The old term for a gun-flint.
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Dry dock
·- ·see under <<Dock>>.
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Dry goods
·- A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, ·etc., — in distinc...
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Dry nurse
·- A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand;
— in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it...
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Dry-beat
·vt To beat severely.
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Dry-boned
·adj Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.
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Dry-eyed
·adj Not having tears in the eyes.
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Dry-fisted
·adj <<Niggardly>>.
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Dry-rub
·vt To rub and cleanse without wetting.
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Dry-rubbed
·Impf & ·p.p. of Dry-rub.
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Dry-rubbing
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Dry-rub.
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Dry-shod
·adj Without wetting the feet.
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Kiln-dry
·vt To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain.
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Smoke-dry
·vt To dry by or in smoke.
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dry bob
A smart repartee: also copulation without emission; in law Latin, siccus robertulus.
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dry boots
A sly humorous fellow.
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dry-blowing
n.
a Western Australian term ingold-mining.
1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 5:
«When wate...
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drop-dry
Completely water-tight.
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dry dock
An artificial receptacle for examining and repairing vessels. (See graving-dock.)
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dry ducking
Suspending a person by a rope a few yards above the surface of the water.
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dry flogging
Punishing over the clothes of a culprit.
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dry gales
Those storms which are accompanied with a clear sky, as the northers of the Gulf of Mexico, the harm...
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dry-rot
A disease destructive of timber, occasioned by a fungus, the Merulius lachrymans, which softens wood...
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dry rowing
"Row dry." Not to dash the spray with the blade of the oar in the faces of those in the stern-sheets...
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row dry!
The order to those who row, not to splash water into the boat.
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Alum stone
·- A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.
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Amazon stone
·noun A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
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Arch stone
·- A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
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Caen stone
·- A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.
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Cross-stone
·noun ·see <<Harmotome>>, and <<Staurotide>>.
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Gravel-stone
·noun A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
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Grindle stone
·- A <<Grindstone>>.
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Jew's-stone
·noun ·Alt. of <<Jewstone>>.
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Moabite stone
·add. ·- A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which b...
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Perpend stone
·- ·see <<Perpender>>.
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Perpent stone
·- ·see <<Perpender>>.
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Portland stone
·- A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in buildin...
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Pumice stone
·- ·same·as <<Pumice>>.
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Purbeck stone
·- A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.
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Rocking-stone
·noun A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised tha...
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Stepping-stone
·noun Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.
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Stone-blind
·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind.
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Stone-cold
·adj Cold as a stone.
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Stone-dead
·adj As dead as a stone.
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Stone-deaf
·adj As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
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Stone-hearted
·adj Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
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Stone-horse
·noun <<Stallion>>.
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Stone-still
·adj As still as a stone.
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Stumbling-stone
·noun A stumbling-block.
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Moabite Stone
A basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a Germ...
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Sardine stone
(Rev. 4:3, R.V., "sardius;" Heb. odhem; LXX., Gr. sardion, from a root meaning "red"), a gem of a bl...
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London Stone
A rounded block of stone set in a large stone case, in which is an oval opening through which it can...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Stone Court
1) East out of Gutter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1720 and 1755).
"Ston...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Stone Rente
A tenement so called in parish of St. Laurence Jewry, 20 Rich. II. 1397 (Cal. P.R. Rich. II. 1396-9,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Stone Wharf
Messuage and wharf called " Stonwharf" in parish of All Hallows de Berkingecherche, 1304 (Ct. H.W. I...
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Waetmundes Stone
In a grant by King Aelfred and Ethelred to the Bishop and Church of Worcester in 889, mention is mad...
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stone jug
Newgate, or any other prison.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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oamaru stone
n.
Oamaru is a town on the eastcoast of the South Island of New Zealand. It produces a finebuilding...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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stone-lifter
n.
a Melbourne name for the fish Kathetostoma laeve, Bl., family T rachinidae,one of the genera of ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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burr-stone
A species of silex or quartz occurring in morphous masses, partly compact, but containing many irreg...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cling-stone
A variety of the peach in which the flesh adheres, or clings, firmly to the stone. When the stone re...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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curb-stone
A border to a pavement, consisting of stone slabs set on edge, which form the separation between it ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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stone-root
(Lat. Collinconia Canadensis.) A plant used in medicine. Its properties are diuretic and stomachic.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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stone toter
The most singular fish in this part of the world [the Southern States] is called the stone-toter, wh...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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grindle-stone
a grind-stone. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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hud-stone
the side of a fire-grate, to set any thing upon. North.
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battling-stone
A large stone with a smooth surface by the side of a stream, on which washers beat their linen.
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drip-stone
The name usually given to filters composed of porous stone.
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holy-stone
A sandstone for scrubbing decks, so called from being originally used for Sunday cleaning, or obtain...
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stone-bow
A cross-bow for shooting stones.
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suck-stone
An archaic name for the remora.
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dry-bulb thermometer
The readings of this instrument, when compared with those of a wet-bulb thermometer, indicate the am...
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dry holy-stoning
See holy-stone.
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high-and-dry
The situation of a ship or other vessel which is aground, so as to be seen dry upon the strand when ...
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Ro-setta stone
·- A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Stone Cutter's Yard
West out of Poor Jewry Lane. In Aldgate Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799), west of Northumberland Alle...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Stone Cutters' Yard
South out of Half Moon Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 108).
The site ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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(St.) Swithin, London Stone
On the north side of Cannon Street at No.113, at the south-west corner of St. Swithin's Lane (P.O. D...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Abel, Stone Of
(the great abel)
the place where the ark rested in the field of Joshua at Beth-shemesh. (1 Samuel 6...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Bohan, Stone Of
a stone erected in honor of Bohan on the boundary between Judah and Benjamin, in the valley of Achor...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Moabite Stone, The
In the year 1868 Rev. F. Klein, of the Church Missionary Society at Jerusalem, found at Dhiban (the ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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(St.) Martin towards London Stone
Parr'. s' Mart'. vs lundeneston, 13th cent. (MSS. D. and C. St. Paul's, W.D. 12).
Qy. = St. Martin ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Stone Cross in Cheap
Hugh of the Stone Cross in the Ward of Chepe is mentioned in 10 Ed. I. 1282 in Cal. L. Bk. B. p.13.
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thick-and-dry for weighing!
To clap on nippers closely, just at starting the anchor from the ground.
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