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• Bound

  ·- imp. & ·p.p. of Bind. II. Bound ·Impf of <<Bind>>. III. Bound ·p.p. of <<Bind>>. IV. Bound ·vi...

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• bound

  Destined for a particular service. Intended voyage to a place. ♦ Ice-bound. Totally surrounded wit...

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• Home

  ·adv Close; closely. II. Home ·noun ·see <<Homelyn>>. III. Home ·noun The home base; he started fo...

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• home

  The proper situation of any object, when it retains its full force of action, or when it is properly...

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• Gold-bound

  ·adj Encompassed with gold. ...

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• Half-bound

  ·noun Having only the back and corners in leather, as a book. ...

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• Snow-bound

  ·adj Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. ...

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• Water-bound

  ·adj Prevented by a flood from proceeding. ...

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• Weather-bound

  ·adj Kept in port or at anchor by storms; delayed by bad weather; as, a weather-bound vessel. ...

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• Wood-bound

  ·adj Incumbered with tall, woody hedgerows. ...

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• degg-bound

  much swelled in the belly. N. ...

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• homeward-bound

  Said of a ship when returning from a voyage to the place whence she was fitted out; or the country t...

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• ice-bound

  A vessel so surrounded by ice as to be prevented from proceeding on her voyage. ...

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• iron-bound

  A coast where the shores are composed of rocks which mostly rise perpendicularly from the sea, and h...

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• man-bound

  Detained in port in consequence of being short of complement. ...

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• money-bound

  A phrase expressive of such passengers as are detained on board till a remittance arrives for paying...

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• weather-bound

  Detained by foul winds; our forefathers used the term wæder fæst. ...

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• wind-bound

  Detained at an anchorage by contrary winds. ...

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• Harvest-home

  ·noun The opportunity of gathering treasure. II. Harvest-home ·noun The gathering and bringing home...

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• Home-bred

  ·adj Not polished; rude; uncultivated. II. Home-bred ·adj Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. ...

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• Home-coming

  ·noun Return home. ...

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• Home-driven

  ·adj Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close. ...

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• Home-dwelling

  ·adj Keeping at home. ...

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• Home-felt

  ·adj Felt in one's own breast; inward; private. ...

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• Home-keeping

  ·noun A staying at home. II. Home-keeping ·adj Staying at home; not gadding. ...

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• Home-speaking

  ·noun Direct, forcible, and effective speaking. ...

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• Home, John

  (1722-1808) Dramatist, s. of the Town-Clerk of Leith, where he was b., ed. there and at Edin., and ...

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• to see home

  'To see a lady home,' is to wait upon or attend her home from a party or elsewhere. The eventful da...

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• called home

  asked in the church. Sedgemoor. ...

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• blow home

  The wind does not cease or moderate till it comes past that place, blowing continuously over the lan...

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• chock-home

  , chock-full, chock-home, chock-up, &c. Denote as far aft, full, home, up, &c., as possible, or th...

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• coming-home

  Said of the anchor when it has been dropped on bad holding ground, or is dislodged from its bed by t...

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• falling home

  When the top-sides are inclined within the perpendicular; opposite of wall-sided. (See tumbling home...

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• home-service

  The Channel service; any force, either naval or military, stationed in and about the United Kingdom....

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• home-traders

  The contradistinction of foreign-going ships. ...

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• sailors' home

  A house built by subscription, for the accommodation of seamen on moderate terms, and to rescue them...

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• sheet home!

  The order, after the sails are loosed, to extend the sheets to the outer extremities of the yards, t...

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• tumbling home

  The opposite of wall-sided, or flaring out. That part of a ship's side which curves inwardly above t...

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• iron-bound blocks

  Those which are fitted with iron strops. ...

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• strop-bound block

  A single block used in the clue of square-sails for the clue-lines to lead through; it has a shoulde...

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• Kames, Henry Home, Lord

  (1696-1782) Miscellaneous writer, s. of Geo. H., of Kames, Berwickshire, was admitted an advocate i...

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• ram home, to

  To drive home the ammunition in a gun. ...

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• bring home the anchor, to

  is to weigh it. It applies also when the flukes slip or will not hold; a ship then brings home her a...

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• body of divinity bound in black calf

  A parson. ...

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