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Sand
·noun Courage; pluck; grit.
II. Sand ·vt To drive upon the sand.
III. Sand ·noun A single particle...
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Blind
·noun A halting place.
II. Blind ·adj Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
III. Blind ·n...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blind
Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be tre...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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blind
A feint, pretence, or shift.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind
I.
A name on the west coast of Scotland for the pogge, or miller's thumb (Cottus cataphractus).
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Sand-lot
·add. ·adj Lit., of or pert. to a lot or piece of sandy ground, — hence, pert. to, or characteristic...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Sand Wharf
See Wheatsheaf Wharf.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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sand shark
See blind shark
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sand-lark
n.
name given in Australia to the Red-capped Dottrel, Charadrius ruficapilla, Temm.
1867. W. Richa...
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sand-stay
n.
a characteristic name for the Coast Tea-Tree, Leptospermum laevigatum,F. v. M., N.O. Myrtaceae. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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sand-flea
(Genus, orchestra. Leach.) A small crustacea common along the shores of Long Island, and other sandy...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sand-galls
spots of sand forced up by the oozing of water. Norf. and Suff.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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sand-streak
See garboard-strake
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quick-sand
A fine-grained loose sand, into which a ship sinks by her own weight as soon as the water retreats f...
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sand-bags
Small square cushions made of canvas and painted, for boats' ballast. Also, bags containing about a ...
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sand-drifts
Hillocks of shifting sands, as on the deserts of Sahara, &c.
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sand-hills
Mounds of sand thrown up on the sea-shore by winds and eddies. They are mostly destitute of verdure....
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sand-hopper
A small creature (Talitra), resembling a shrimp, which abounds on some beaches.
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sand-launce
♦ Ammodytes tobianus, a small eel-like fish, which buries itself in the sand.
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sand-piper
A name applied to many species of small wading birds found on the sea-shore and banks of lakes and r...
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sand-shot
Those cast in moulds of sand, when economy is of more importance than form or hardness; the small ba...
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sand-strake
A name sometimes given to the garboard-strake.
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sand-warpt
Left by the tide on a shoal. Also, striking on a shoal at half-flood.
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shifting sand
A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...
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sand glass
See short-time
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Blind reader
·add. ·- A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.
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Color-blind
·adj Affected with color blindness. ·see Color blindness, under Color, ·noun.
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Hoodman-blind
·noun An old term for blindman's buff.
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Snow-blind
·adj Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow.
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Star-blind
·adj Half blind.
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Stock-blind
·adj Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
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Stone-blind
·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind.
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Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel
(fl. 1470-1492)
Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skil...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Blind, Mathilde
(1841-1896)
Poetess, b. at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, and pub. several books of po...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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blind cheeks
The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind excuse
A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or fre...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind harpers
Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind cupid
The backside.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind shark
or Sand Shark
,n. i.q. Shovel-nose (q.v.).
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of N...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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blind-worm
the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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blind-bucklers
Those fitted for the hawse-holes, which have no aperture for the cable, and therefore used at sea to...
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blind-harbour
One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived.
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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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blind-shell
One which, from accident or bad fuze, has fallen without exploding, or one purposely filled with lea...
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blind-stakes
A sort of river-weir.
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rope of sand
A term borrowed from a Greek proverb signifying attempting impossibilities; without cohesion. Said o...
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Blind Chapel Court
See Blanch Appleton Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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cupid, blind cupid
A jeering name for an ugly blind man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted blind.
See b...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind-your-eyes
n.
another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove.
♣ ~, doing the
v. lounging in thefashionabl...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to go it blind
To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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sand and coral bank
An accumulation of sand and fragments of coral above the surface of the sea, without any vegetation;...
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