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Open
·vi To bark on scent or view of the game.
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open
The situation of a place which is exposed to the wind and sea. Also, applied in meteorology, to mild...
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Handed
·adj With hands joined; hand in hand.
II. Handed ·adj Having a peculiar or characteristic hand.
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Open door
·add. ·- Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity.
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Open sea
·add. ·- A sea open to all nations. ·see Mare clausum.
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Open verdict
·add. ·- A verdict on a preliminary investigation, finding the fact of a crime but not stating the c...
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Open-air
·adj Taking place in the open air; outdoor; as, an open-air game or meeting.
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Open-eyed
·adj With eyes widely open; watchful; vigilant.
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Open-headed
·adj <<Bareheaded>>.
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Open-hearted
·adj Candid; frank; generous.
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Open-mouthed
·adj Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous.
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Open place
Gen. 38:14, 21, mar. Enaim; the same probably as Enam (Josh. 15:34), a city in the lowland or Shephe...
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open arse
A medlar.
See medlar.
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to re-open
To open again.--Webster. This word is much used. The theatre re-opens for the season. The schools re...
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open hawse
When a vessel rides by two anchors, without any cross in her cables.
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open ice
Fragments of ice sufficiently separate to admit of a ship forcing or boring through them under sail....
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open list
One of a ship's books, which contains the whole of the names of the actual officers and crew, in ord...
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open order
Any distance ordered to be preserved among ships, exceeding a cable's length.
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open pack
A body of drift ice, the pieces of which, though very near each other, do not generally touch. It is...
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open policy
Where the amount of the interest of the insured is not fixed by the policy, but is left to be ascert...
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open roadstead
A place of hazard, as affording no protection either from sea or wind.
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Double-handed
·adj Having two hands.
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Fast-handed
·adj Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
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Free-handed
·adj Open-handed; liberal.
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Hard-handed
·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
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High-handed
·adj Overbearing; oppressive; arbitrary; violent; as, a high-handed act.
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Horny-handed
·adj Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
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Large-handed
·adj Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
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Left-handed
·adj Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment.
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Light-handed
·adj Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
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Lily-handed
·adj Having white, delicate hands.
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Red-handed
(·adj / ·adv) Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands;
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Right-handed
·adj Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
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Short-handed
·adj Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
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Single-handed
·adj Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
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Sinister-handed
·adj Left-handed; hence, unlucky.
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Strait-handed
·adj Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.
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Three-handed
·adj Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, ...
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Two-handed
·adj Used with both hands; as, a two-handed sword.
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Wing-handed
·adj Having the anterior limbs or hands adapted for flight, as the bats and pterodactyls.
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Left-handed
(Judg. 3:15; 20:16), one unable to use the right hand skilfully, and who therefore uses the left; an...
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caw-handed, or caw-pawed
Awkward, not dextrous, ready, or nimble.
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two-handed
Great. A two-handed fellow or wench; a great strapping man orwoman,
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fore-handed
To be fore-handed is to be in good circumstances; to be comfortably off. The expression is much used...
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cooche-handed
left-handed. Devon.
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light-handed
Short of the complement of men.
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short-handed
A deficient complement of men, or short-handed by many being on the sick-list.
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Open-hearth steel
·add. ·- ·see under <<Open>>.
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left-handed wife
A concubine; an allusion to an ancient German custom, according to which, when a man married his con...
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two handed put
The amorous congress.
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two-handed fellows
Those who are both seamen and soldiers, or artificers; as the marines and, specially, marine artille...
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two-handed saw
A very useful instrument in ship-carpentry; it is much longer than the hand-saw, and requires two me...
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open lower deckers, to
To fire the lower tier of guns. Also said of a person using violent language.
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finish. the finish; a small coffee-house in coven garden, market, opposite russel-street, open very early in the morning, and therefore resorted to by debauchees shut out of every other house: it is also called carpenter's coffee- house.
Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man wanting to tell a particular story, said to the com...
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