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• Is

  IS(Ἴς, Herod. i; 179), a town of Mesopotamia, eight days' journey N. of Babylon, situated, according...

  Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

• is

  is, ĕa, id (m. eis, C. I. L. 1, 198; n. it, ib. 5, 875 al., and freq. in MSS. of Plaut.), gen. ējus ...

  A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

• is

  is ea, id, gen.ēius (sometimes monosyl. in poetry), dat.ēī (rarely eī or monosyl. ei), pron.demonst...

  An Elementary Latin Dictionary

• Is-

  ·- ·see Iso-. II. Is- ·- Applied to certain compounds having the same composition but different pro...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• ‘T is

  ·- A common contraction of it is. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• the jig is up

  i. e. the game is up; it is all over with me. The time was when I could cut pigeon wings, and perfo...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• coming! so is christmas

  Said of a person who has long been called, and at length answers, Coming! ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• pauler, that is a

  A closer or stopper; an unanswerable or puzzling decision. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• what ship is that?

  A question often put when a jaw-breaking word has been intrusively uttered by savants. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• the crack, or all the crack. the fashionable theme, the go. the crack lay, of late is used, in the cant language, to signify the art and mystery of house-breaking.

  Crust, sea biscuit, or ammunition loaf; also the backside. Farting crackers; breeches. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.

  Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose