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joe-joe
joey
interjection, then a verb,now obsolete. Explained in quotations.
1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Joe
·noun ·see <<Johannes>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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joe
joey
interjection, then a verb,now obsolete. Explained in quotations.
1855. W. Howitt, `Two Years ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Pye
·noun ·see 2d Pie (b).
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Weed
·noun Tobacco, or a cigar.
II. Weed ·noun Underbrush; low shrubs.
III. Weed ·noun An animal unfit ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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to weed
To take a part. The kiddey weeded the swell's screens; the youth took some of the gentleman's bank n...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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weed
A common term for tobacco; as, 'Do you use the weed? meaning, 'Do you chew tobacco?'
Those who were...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Joe Miller
·- A jest book; a stale jest; a worn-out joke.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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cob-joe
a nut at the end of a string. Derb.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Sea pye
·- ·see 1st Sea pie.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Pye Corner
At the northern end of Giltspur Street, leading to West Smithfield, in Farringdon Ward Without (Elme...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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choaking pye
A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cold pye
A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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yarmouth pye
A pye made of herrings highly spiced, which the city of Norwich is by charter bound to present annua...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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sea-pye
See oyster-catcher
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Bishop's-weed
·noun Goutweed (Aegopodium podagraria).
II. Bishop's-weed ·noun An umbelliferous plant of the genus...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Jamestown weed
·- The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamesto...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Jimson weed
·- ·see Jamestown weed.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Orchilla weed
·- The lichen from which archil is obtained. ·see <<Archil>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Willow-weed
·noun Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage.
II. Willow-weed ·noun A European species of lo...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Yaw-weed
·noun A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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cape weed
n.
In Europe, Roccellatinctoria, a lichen from the Cape de Verde Islands, fromwhich a dye is produc...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sida-weed
n.
i.q. Queensland Hemp.See Hemp.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sneeze-weed
Myriogyne minuta, Less., Cotula or Centipeda cunninghamii, De C.,and many other botanical synonyms. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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bugle-weed
(Lycopus Virginicus.) A plant which has much reputation for its medicinal properties. It is also kno...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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carpet weed
A small spreading plant, common in cultivated ground (molugo).--Bigelow's Plants of Boston.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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poke-weed
POKE
(Lat. phytolacca.) A common plant, known also by the names of Garget, Cocum, Jalap, &c. It is ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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squaw-weed
(Lat. senecio obovatus.) A medicinal plant used for diseases of the skin.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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thimble weed
(Lat. Rudbeckia.) A tall plant six or eight feet high, resembling the sunflower. It is one of the he...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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ore-weed
sea-weed, or sea-wrac, used for manuring land. S. and W.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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gulf-weed
The Fucus natans, considered to belong to the Gulf Stream, and found floating in the Sargasso Sea in...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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weed, to
To clear the rigging of stops, rope-yarns, and pieces of oakum.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Pye, Henry James
(1745-1813)
A country gentleman of Berkshire, who pub. Poems on Various Subjects and Alfred, an Epi...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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apple-pye bed
A bed made apple-pye fashion, like what is called a turnover apple-pye, where the sheets are so doub...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pudding-pye-doll
the dish called toad-in-a-hole, meat boiled in a crust. Norf.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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Pye Corner, Tower Street
At the east end of Tower Street, and north end of Petty Wales, 23 poles north from Richardson's whar...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Pye in the Royall
A Messuage so called in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster Church, 1565 (Lond. I. p.m. II. 35).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.