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Cloth
·noun The dress; raiment. [Obs.] ·see <<Clothes>>.
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Lady's bedstraw
·- The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo)...
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Lady's bower
·- A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba).
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Lady's comb
·- An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely res...
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Lady's cushion
·- An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).
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Lady's finger
·- The kidney vetch.
II. Lady's finger ·- One of the branchiae of the lobster.
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Lady's garters
·- Ribbon grass.
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Lady's hair
·- A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass.
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Lady's laces
·- A slender climbing plant; dodder.
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Lady's mantle
·- A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), ·esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with ro...
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Lady's seal
·- The black bryony (Tamus communis).
II. Lady's seal ·- The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum v...
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Lady's slipper
·- Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less ...
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Lady's smock
·- A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower.
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Lady's thimble
·- The <<Harebell>>.
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Lady's thumb
·- An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.
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Lady's traces
·- ·Alt. of Ladies' tresses.
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Lady's Yard
Out of Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street, in Portsoken Ward (Lockie, 1816).
Not named in the maps.
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Bearing cloth
·- A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
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Carborundum cloth
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Carborundum paper.
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Cheese cloth
·add. ·- A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds.
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Goring cloth
·noun A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.
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Gunny cloth
·- A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus C...
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Henrietta cloth
·add. ·- A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.
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Match-cloth
·noun A coarse cloth.
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Thibet cloth
·- A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.
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Top-cloth
·noun A piece of canvas used to cover the hammocks which are lashed to the top in action to protect ...
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Cloth Fair
East out of West Smithfield at No. 59 to Kiughorn Street (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Withou...
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Cloth Street
South out of
First mention: O.S. 188-51.
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Cloth Yard
Out of Dunning's Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in th...
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cloth market
He is just come from the cloth market, i.e. from between the sheets, he is just risen from bed.
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broad cloth
Square sails.
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buntline-cloth
The lining sewed up the fore-part of the sail in the direction of the buntline to prevent that rope ...
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goring-cloth
See goring
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table-cloth
A fleecy-looking cloud which sometimes covers the "table" or flat top of Table Mountain, at the Cape...
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Lady's looking-glass
·- ·see Venus's looking-glass, under <<Venus>>.
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My Lady's Yard
See Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street.
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Pi-a cloth
·add. ·- A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, ·etc., woven from the fiber obtained f...
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Cloth Workers' Court
North out of White Friers, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
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devil's table-cloth
See table-cloth.
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The Back Alley, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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Back Streate, Cloth Fair
See Back Court.
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King Street, Cloth Fair
See Kinghorn Street, Cloth Fair.
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Kinghorn Street, Cloth Fair
South out of Cloth Fair, at No. 63, to Bartholomew Close, in Farringdon Ward Without.
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cloth in the wind
Too near to the wind, and sails shivering. Also, groggy.
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shaking a cloth in the wind
In galley parlance, expresses the being slightly intoxicated.
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