Mess beef

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• Mess

  ·noun Mass; church service. II. Mess ·vt To supply with a mess. III. Mess ·noun The milk given by ...

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• Mess

  A portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8). ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• mess

  by the mess, by the mass, an oath. Derb. and Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• mess

  Any company of the officers or crew of a ship, who eat, drink, and associate together. (See number.)...

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• Beef

  ·noun Applied colloquially to human flesh. II. Beef ·adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. I...

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• beef

  To cry beef; to give the alarm. They have cried beef on us. Cant.--To be in a man's beef; to wound h...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef

  A figurative term for strength. ♦ More beef! more men on. ...

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• mess john

  A Scotch presbyterian teacher or parson. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• mess-deck

  The place where a ship's crew mess. ...

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• mess-kid

  A wooden tub for holding cooked victuals or cocoa. ...

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• mess-traps

  The kids, crockery, bowls, spoons, and other articles of mess service. ...

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• sick-mess

  A table for those on the doctor's list. When seamen are thus placed, their provisions are turned ove...

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• Beef-witted

  ·noun Stupid; dull. ...

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• Bully beef

  ·add. ·v Pickled or canned beef. ...

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• Beef Market

  In Leadenhall Market (P.C. 1732). ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• beef eater

  A yeoman of the guards, instituted by Henry VII. Their office was to stand near the bouffet, or cupb...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hung beef

  A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fello...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• beef-wood

  n. the timber of various Australiantrees, especially of the genus Casuarina, and some ofthe Banksia...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• albany beef

  Sturgeon; a fish which abounds in the Hudson river; so called by the people in the State of New York...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• martlemas-beef

  beef dried in the chimney like bacon, so called, because it is usual to kill the beef for this purpo...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• albany beef

  A name for the sturgeon of the Hudson River, where it is taken in quantity for commerce. ...

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• beef-kid

  A mess utensil for carrying meat from the coppers. ...

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• jerked beef

  Charqui. Meat cured by drying in the open air, with or without salt. Also, the name of an American c...

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• roast-beef dress

  Full uniform; probably from its resemblance to that of the royal beef-eaters. ...

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• roast beef of old england

  A popular air, by which officers are summoned to the dinner-table. ...

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• losing the number of the mess

  Dead, drowned, or killed. (See number.) ...

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