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Egg
·noun Anything resembling an egg in form.
II. Egg ·vt To urge on; to <<Instigate>>; to incite/.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Egg
(Heb. beytsah, "whiteness"). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of a bird (Deut. 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Goose
·noun A silly creature; a simpleton.
II. Goose ·noun Any large bird of other related families, rese...
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goose
A taylor's goose; a smoothing iron used to press down the seams, for which purpose it must be heated...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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goose
n.
English bird-name. The Australianspecies are – – Cape Barren Goose – – Cereopsis novae-hollandia...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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goose
A tailor's smoothing-iron. It is a jocular saying that 'A tailor, be he ever so poor, is always sure...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Ant egg
·- One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, ...
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Egg squash
·- A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.
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Egg-bird
·noun A species of tern, ·esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama ...
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Egg-cup
·noun A cup used for holding an egg, at table.
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Egg-glass
·noun A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a smal...
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Egg-shaped
·adj Resembling an egg in form; ovoid.
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Sea egg
·- A sea urchin.
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egg, to
To instigate, incite, provoke, to urge on: from the Anglo-Saxon eggion.
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sea-egg
A general name for the echinus, better known to seamen as the sea-urchin (which see).
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Brand goose
·- A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. ·see <<Brant>>.
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Ember-goose
·noun The loon or great northern diver. ·see <<Loon>>.
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Goose-rumped
·add. ·adj Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup;
— said of ce...
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Imber-goose
·noun The loon. ·see Ember-goose.
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Sea goose
·- A <<Phalarope>>.
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Solan goose
·- The common gannet.
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Way-goose
·noun ·see Wayz-goose, ·noun, 2.
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Wayz-goose
·noun A stubble goose.
II. Wayz-goose ·noun An annual feast of the persons employed in a printing o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Goose Alley
South out of Bow Churchyard to Twelve Bell Court. In Cordwainer Ward (Boyle, 1799).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Goose Lane
See Goose Alley, Bow Churchyard.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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goose riding
A goose, whose neck is greased, being suspended by the legs to a cord tied to two trees or high post...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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greenwich goose
A pensioner of Greenwich Hospital.
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strangle goose
A poulterer.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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taylors goose
An iron with which, when heated, press down the seams of clothes.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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colonial goose
n.
a boned leg of muttonstuffed with sage and onions. In the early days the sheep wasalmost the sol...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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goose-teal
n.
the English name for a verysmall goose of the genus Nettapus. The Australianspecies are – – Gree...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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magpie-goose
n.
a common name for theAustralian Goose, Anseranus melanoleuca, Lath.; calledalso Swan-goose, and ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to goose boots
To repair them by putting on a new front half way up, and a new bottom.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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gone goose
'It's a gone goose with him,' means that he is past recovery. The phrase is a vulgarism in New Engla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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goose-grass
goose-tansy, argentina, or auscrina. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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cole-goose
A name for the cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo).
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dunter-goose
A name in the Orkneys for the Somateria mollissima, or eider-duck.
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ember-goose
(OR IMBER?)
A name for the great northern diver or loon (Colymbus glacialis).
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gone-goose
A ship deserted or given up in despair (in extremis).
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goose-neck
A curved iron, fitted outside the after-chains to receive a spare spar, properly the swinging boom, ...
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horie-goose
A northern name for the Anser bernicla, or brent-goose.
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rood-goose
A name for the brent-goose.
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sly-goose
A northern term for the sheldrake, Tadorna vulpanser.
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solan-goose
The gannet, Sula bassana, a well-known sea fowl, frequenting the coasts of many countries in the nor...
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Wild Goose Court
See Wingoose Alley.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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wild-goose chase
A tedious uncertain pursuit, like the following a flock of wild geese, who are remarkably shy.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cape-barren goose
n.
See goose.
1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 114,[Footnote]:
«The `Cape B...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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goose-man chick
a gosling. York, and Glouc. The syllable MAN is redundant, as in FURZE-MAN PIG, a hedge-hog.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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goose without gravy
A severe starting, so called because no blood followed its infliction.
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mother cary's goose
The name given by Captain Cook's people to an oceanic brown bird, Procellaria gigantea, which Pernet...
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Goose Alley, Fleet Market
See Braziers' Buildings.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fox and Goose Inn, Yard
On the south side of London Wall, in Cripplegate Ward Within (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799), between Col...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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goose-wings of a sail
The situation of a course when the buntlines and lee-clue are hauled up, and the weather-clue down. ...
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such a reason pist my goose
or MY GOOSE PIST
Said when any one offers an absurd reason.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose