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• not

  1) smooth, polled or shorn ; not-sheep, sheep without horns. Ess. That field is not, that field is w...

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

• Not-pated

  ·adj ·Alt. of Nott-pated. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Why-not

  ·noun A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening....

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• what not

  In New York a piece of furniture usually placed in a parlor, consisting of several shelves, upon whi...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• not lost

  See lost ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Forget-me-not

  ·noun A small herb, of the genus Myosotis (M. palustris, incespitosa, ·etc.), bearing a beautiful bl...

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• Touch-me-not

  ·noun ·see <<Impatiens>>. II. Touch-me-not ·noun Squirting cucumber. ·see under <<Cucumber>>. ...

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• touch-me-not

  (Lat. impatiens noli tangere.) A plant found about brooks, and in moist places.--Michaux, Sylva. A p...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• looking as if one could not help it

  Looking like a simpleton, or as if one could not say boh! to a goose. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• not born in the woods to be scared by an owl

  Too much used to danger, or threats, to be easily frightened. I just puts my finger to my nose, and...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.