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Cushion
·noun a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf.
II. Cushion ·noun the elastic edge of a billiard table....
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cushion
He has deserved the cushion; a saying of one whose wife is brought to bed of a boy: implying, that h...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Coronary cushion
·add. ·- A cushionlike band of vascular tissue at the upper border of the wall of the hoof of the ho...
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Cushion tire
·add. ·- A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the...
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Cushion Court
East out of Old Broad Street at No. 10, in Broad Street Ward (P.O Directory).
First mention: O. and...
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cushion thumper
A parson; many of whom in the fury of their eloquence, heartily belabour their cushions.
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cushion-flower
n. i.q. Hakea laurina,R. Br. See hakea.
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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 cloth
·add. ·- A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, ·etc.
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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 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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(The) Crown and Cushion
See Pay Office.
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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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Crown and Cushion Court
South out of Cow Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831).
Former name : "Bore's...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.