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Flat
·vi To fall form the pitch. II. Flat ·noun A homaloid space or extension. III. Flat ·noun Somethin...

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flat
A bubble, gull, or silly fellow. ...

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flat
1) In cant language, a foolish fellow; a simpleton.--Worcester. The London Times, of Sept. 5, 1847,...

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flat
In ship-building, a straight part in a curve. In hydrography, a shallow over which the tide flows, a...

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Cap
·vt To deprive of cap. II. Cap ·noun A covering for the head. III. Cap ·vt To salute by removing t...

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to cap
1) To take one's oath. I will cap downright; I will swear home. CANT. 2) To take off one's hat or c...

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to cap
To excel; to surpass. Ex. To cap all. Used in familiar language in New England. Mr. Hartshorne, in h...

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cap
, cob head, chief, or master. Cumb. ...

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cap
A strong thick block of wood having two large holes through it, the one square, the other round, use...

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Alkali flat
·add. ·- A sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an ...

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Flat foot
·- A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upo...

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Flat-bottomed
·adj Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat. ...

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Flat-footed
·adj Firm-footed; determined. II. Flat-footed ·adj Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of th...

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Flat-headed
·adj Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail. ...

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flat cock
A female. ...

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flat pea
n. a genus of Australian floweringplants, Platylobium, N.O. Leguminosae. 1793. `Transactions of Li...

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pea, flat
n. See flat pea. ...

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to flat out
To collapse; to prove a failure. A Western phrase applied to a political meeting, as, 'The meeting f...

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flat-footed
Firm-footed, resolute; firmly, resolutely. A term belonging to the Western political slang with whic...

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dead-flat
The timber or frame possessing the greatest breadth and capacity in the ship: where several timbers ...

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flat-aback
When all the sails are blown with their after-surface against the mast, so as to give stern-way. ...

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flat-aft
The sheets of fore-and-aft sails may be hauled flat-aft, as the jib-sheet to pay her head off, the d...

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flat-bottomed
When a vessel's lower frame has but little upward inclination. ...

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flat calm
When there is no perceptible wind at sea. ...

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flat-fish
The Pleuronectidæ, a family of fishes containing the soles, flounders, turbots, &c., remarkable for ...

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flat-nails
Small sharp-pointed nails with flat thin heads, longer than tacks, for nailing the scarphs of moulds...

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flat seam
The two edges or selvedges of canvas laid over each other and sewed down. ...

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flat seizing
This is passed on a rope, the same as a round seizing, but it has no riding turns. ...

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Bishop's cap
·- A plant of the genus Mitella; miterwort. ...

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Phrygian cap
·add. ·- A close-fitting cap represented in Greek art as worn by Orientals, assumed to have been con...

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Service cap
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Service hat. ...

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cap acquaintance
Persons slightly acquainted, or only so far as mutually to salute with the hat on meeting. A woman w...

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custard cap
The cap worn by the sword-bearer of the city of London, made hollow at the top like a custard. ...

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hum cap
Very old and strong beer, called also stingo. See stingo. ...

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trencher cap
The square cap worn by the collegians. at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ...

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bowsprit-cap
The crance or cap on the outer end of the bowsprit, through which the jib-boom traverses. ...

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cap, to
To puzzle or beat in argument. To salute by touching the head-covering, as Shakspeare makes Iago's f...

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cap-scuttle
A framing composed of coamings and head-ledges raised above the deck, with a top which shuts closely...

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cap-shore
A supporting spar between the cap and the trestle-tree. ...

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cap-square
The clamp of iron which shuts over the trunnions of a gun to secure them to the carriage, having a c...

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monmouth cap
A flat worsted cap formerly worn by soldiers and sailors. In the old play Eastward Ho, it is said, "...

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night-cap
Warm grog taken just before turning in. ...

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priest's-cap
An outwork which has three salient angles at the head and two inwards. ...

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sea-cap
The white drift or breaks of a wave. White horses of trades. ...

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to cap the climax
is to surpass everything. A letter from Mexico, in speaking of the excesses of the American soldiers...

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Cardinal Cap Alley, Cornhill
See Swan and Hoop Passage. ...

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to set her cap for him
To direct her attentions to him; to endeavor to win his affections. Dr. Johnson notices the phrase, ...

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