·add. ·- A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person.
·adj Of or pertaining to the United States. II. American ·adj Of or pertaining to America; as, the ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun ·sg & ·pl An old game resembling backgammon. II. Irish ·adj Of or pertaining to Ireland or to...
·add. ·- In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other c...
·adj Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. ...
·add. ·- An American who is referred to by a hyphenated term with the first word indicating an origi...
·adj Of or pertaining to both North and South America. ...
Out of Glasshouse Yard, Goodman's Yard, Minories (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831). Not named in the maps....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Potatoes. It is a common joke against the Irish vessels, to say they are loaded with fruit and timbe...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A woman with two black eyes. ...
A false witness. ...
Thick legs, jocularly styled the Irish arms. It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispens...
Thieves who carry about pins, laces, and other pedlars wares, and under the pretence of offering the...
Old salt beef: hence the sailor's address to his salt beef "Salt horse, salt horse, what brought y...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Rope-yarns hanging about on the rigging. Loose reef-points or gaskets flying about, or fag-ends of r...
·add. ·- A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the prot...
·add. ·- Any of several meetings of delegates from various American states; ·esp.: (a) One held in 1...