·- The kidney vetch.
II. Lady's finger ·- One of the branchiae of the lobster.
III. Lady's finger ·- A long, slender variety of the potato.
IV. Lady's finger ·- A variety of small cake of about the dimensions of a finger.
·vt To touch lightly; to toy with. II. Finger ·vt To execute, as any delicate work. III. Finger ·v...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun ·see <<Cinquefoil>>. II. Five-finger ·noun A starfish with five rays, ·esp. Asterias rubens. ...
A parson: so called, because he points out a way to others which he never goes himself. Like the fin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
a guide-post which shews the right way it does not go. Cant term. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
See fore-finger ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
, or index-finger. The pointing finger, which was called shoot-finger by the Anglo-Saxons, from it...
This was a term in use with the Anglo-Saxons from its necessity in archery, and is now called the tr...
See fore-finger. ...
·- The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo)...
·- A climbing plant with fragrant blossoms (Clematis vitalba). ...
·add. ·- A kind of broadcloth of light weight, used for women's dresses, cloaks, ·etc. ...
·- An umbelliferous plant (Scandix Pecten-Veneris), its clusters of long slender fruits remotely res...
·- An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris). ...
·- Ribbon grass. ...
·- A plant of the genus Briza (B. media); a variety of quaking grass. ...
·- A slender climbing plant; dodder. ...
·- A genus of rosaceous herbs (Alchemilla), ·esp. the European A. vulgaris, which has leaves with ro...
·- The black bryony (Tamus communis). II. Lady's seal ·- The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum v...
·- Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less ...
·- A plant of the genus Cardamine (C. pratensis); cuckoo flower. ...
·- The <<Harebell>>. ...
·- An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle. ...
·- ·Alt. of Ladies' tresses. ...
Out of Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street, in Portsoken Ward (Lockie, 1816). Not named in the maps. ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
To put finger in eye; to weep: commonly applied to women. The more you cry the less you'll p-ss; a c...
·- ·see Venus's looking-glass, under <<Venus>>. ...
See Harrow Alley, Aldgate High Street. ...