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Hearth
·noun The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates and of hospitality to strangers; fire...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hearth
Heb. ah (Jer. 36:22, 23; R.V., "brazier"), meaning a large pot like a brazier, a portable furnace in...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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hearth
Applied to the ship's fire-place, coppers, and galley generally.
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Hearth
One way of baking much practiced in the East is to place the dough on an iron plate, either laid on ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Open
·vi To bark on scent or view of the game.
II. Open ·adj Produced by an open string; as, an open ton...
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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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Steel
·noun A chalybeate medicine.
II. Steel ·noun A weapon, as a sword, dagger, ·etc.
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Steel
The "bow of steel" in (A.V.) 2 Sam. 22:35; Job 20:24; Ps. 18:34 is in the Revised Version "bow of br...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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steel
The house of correction.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Steel
In all cases were the word "steel" occurs in the Authorized Version the true rendering of the Hebrew...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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fire-hearth
The security base of the galley-range and all its conveniences.
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Open door
·add. ·- Open or free admission to all; hospitable welcome; free opportunity.
II. Open door ·add. ·...
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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-handed
·adj Generous; liberal; munificent.
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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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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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Alloy steel
·add. ·- Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually ...
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Basic steel
·add. ·- Steel produced by the basic process.
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Bessemer steel
·- Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities t...
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Bronze steel
·add. ·- A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, which can be used for guns.
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Carbon steel
·add. ·- Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying el...
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Cast steel
·- ·see Cast steel, under <<Steel>>.
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Cement steel
·add. ·- Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.
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Chrome steel
·add. ·- ·same·as Chromium steel, under <<Steel>>.
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Crucible steel
·add. ·- Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingred...
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Damascus steel
·add. ·- ·see Damask steel, under <<Damask>>.
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Hard steel
·add. ·- Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) ca...
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High steel
·add. ·- Steel containing a high percentage of carbon; high-carbon steel.
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India steel
·add. ·- ·same·as <<Wootz>>.
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Ingot steel
·add. ·- Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace.
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Low steel
·add. ·- ·see under <<Low>>.
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Manganese steel
·add. ·- Cast steel containing a considerable percentage of manganese, which makes it very hard and ...
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Native steel
·add. ·- A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized a...
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Natural steel
·add. ·- Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct proce...
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Nickel steel
·add. ·- A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used fo...
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Phosphorus steel
·add. ·- A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon.
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Shear steel
·add. ·- ·see under <<Shear>>.
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Soft steel
·add. ·- Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron.
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Spring steel
·add. ·- A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, ·etc.
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Structural steel
·add. ·- Rolled steel in structural shapes.
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Tool steel
·add. ·- Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tool...
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Tungsten steel
·add. ·- A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under ...
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Weld steel
·add. ·- A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.
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Wolfram steel
·add. ·- ·same·as Tungsten steel.
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Steel Alley
In Houndsditch. Houses in the alley given 1569 to the parish of St. Edmund the King and Martyr (End....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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steel bar
A needle. A steel bar flinger; a taylor, stay- maker, or any other person using a needle.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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frosted steel
The damasked sword-blades.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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fire-hearth-carline
The timber let in under the beams on which the fire-hearth stands, with pillars underneath, and choc...
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Siemens-Martin steel
·add. ·- ·see Open-hearth steel, under <<Open>>.
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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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Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie (Webster)
(b. 1847)
Novelist. Wide-awake Stories (1884), From the Five Rivers (1893), The Potter's Thumb (189...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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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...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose