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Pay
·noun Satisfaction; content.
II. Pay ·vt To give or offer, without an implied obligation; as, to pa...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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to pay
To smear over. To pay the bottom of a ship or boat; to smear it over with pitch: The devil to pay, a...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pay
A buccaneering principle of hire, under the notion of plunder and sharing in prizes, was, no purchas...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Rock
·noun ·see <<Roc>>.
II. Rock ·noun The striped bass. ·see under <<Bass>>.
III. Rock ·noun That whi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Rock
(Heb. tsur), employed as a symbol of God in the Old Testament (1 Sam. 2:2; 2 Sam. 22:3; Isa. 17:10; ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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rock
1) A piece of money. A slang term peculiar to the South.
Spare my feelings, Squire, and don't ask m...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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rock
An extensive geological term, but limited in hydrographical parlance to hard and solid masses of the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dead-pay
·noun Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
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Pay Cerps
·add. ·- A staff corps in the United States navy, consisting of pay directors, pay inspectors, payma...
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Pay dirt
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pay rock.
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Pay streak
·add. ·- A stratum of oil sand thick enough to make a well pay.
II. Pay streak ·add. ·- The zone, p...
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Pay Office
On the west side of Broad Street, at the corner of Winchester Street, in Broad Street Ward (O. and M...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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store pay
Payment made for produce or other articles purchased, by goods from a store, instead of cash. This i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead-pay
That given formerly in shares, or for names borne, but for which no one appears, as was formerly pra...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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full pay
The stipend allowed when on actual service.
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growing pay
That which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect.
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pay, to
[from Fr. poix, pitch]. To pay a seam is to pour hot pitch and tar into it after caulking, to defend...
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pay away
The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope.
♦ Pay down. Send che...
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retired pay
A graduated pension for retired officers; but the term is nearly synonymous with half pay.
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sea-pay
That due for actual service in a duly-commissioned ship.
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Bed rock
·- The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.
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Rock shaft
·- A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, — usually carrying levers by means...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Rock staff
·vi An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows of a forge.
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lily, rock
n.
an orchid, Dendrobiumspeciosum, Smith, N.O. Orchideae. although not aLily, it is always so calle...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock-cod
n.
called also Red-Cod in NewZealand, Pseudophycis barbatus, Gunth., family Gadidae. In New Zealand...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock lily
n.
See under lily.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock-ling
n.
a marine fish. The AustralianR. is Genypterus australis, Castln., family Ophidiidae. The Europea...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock-native
or Native
n.
a namegiven to the fish called a Schnapper when it hasceased to «school.» See Schnapp...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock-parrakeet
n.
an Australian Grass-Parrakeet (q.v.), Euphema petrophila, Gould.It gets its name from its habita...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock-pebbler
n.
another name for the Black-tailed Parrakeet. See Parrakeet.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock-perch
n.
the name given in Melbourneto the fish Glyphidodon victoriae, Gunth., family Pomacentridae, or C...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock-shelter
n.
a natural cave-dwellingof the aborigines. See Gibber-Gunyah.
1891. R. Etheridge, jun., in `Reco...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock-wallaby
n.
the popular name for anyanimal of the genus Petrogale (q.v.). There are sixspecies – – Brush-tai...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rock led
rash and forward, in children. N.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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blind-rock
One lying just under the surface of the water, so as not to be visible in calms.
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rock-cod
A species of cod found on a rocky bottom.
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rock-hind
A large fish of tropical regions, Serranus catus.
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rock-scorpion
A name applied to persons born at Gibraltar.
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sunken rock
That which lies beneath the surface of the sea, and is dangerous to navigation.
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pay round, to
To turn the ship's head.
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pinch-gut pay
The short allowance money.
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black rock-cod
n.
an Australian fish, chieflyof New South Wales, Serranus daemeli, Gunth.; adifferent fish from th...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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red rock-cod
n.
name given in New South Walesto the fish Scorpaena cardinalis, Richards., family Scorpaenidae, m...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Etam, The Rock
a cliff or lofty rock, into a cleft or chasm of which Samson retired after his slaughter of the Phil...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Oreb, The Rock
the "raven's crag," the spot, east of Jordan, at which the Midianite chieftain Oreb with thousands o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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pay a yard, to
See pay a mast, to
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pay a mast, to
or pay a yard, to
To anoint it with tar, turpentine, rosin, tallow, or varnish; tallow is particul...
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Oreb, The rock of
The place where Gideon slew Oreb after the defeat of the Midianites (Judg. 7:25; Isa. 10:26). It was...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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pay a vessel's bottom, to
To cover it with tallow, sulphur, rosin, &c. (See breaming.)
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pay-serjeant, in the army
A steady non-commissioned officer, selected by the captain of each company, to pay the subsistence d...
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pay of the royal navy
is settled by act of parliament. In the merchant service seamen are paid by the month, and receive t...
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devil to pay and no pitch hot
The seam which margins the water-ways was called the "devil," why only caulkers can tell, who perhap...
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