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Seal
·vi To affix one's seal, or a seal.
II. Seal ·noun Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families P...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Seal
Commonly a ring engraved with some device (Gen. 38:18, 25). Jezebel "wrote letters in Ahab's name, a...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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seal
time or season ; it is a fine seel for you to come at! spoken ironically to persons coming too late....
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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seal
[from the Anglo-Saxon seolh]. The well-known marine piscivorous animal.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Seal
The importance attached to seals in the East is so great that without one no document is regarded as...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Brown
·vi To become brown.
II. Brown ·vt To make brown or dusky.
III. Brown ·vt To make brown by scorchi...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Broad seal
·- The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Centre seal
·add. ·- A compound hydraulic valve for regulating the passage of the gas through a set of purifiers...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Lady's seal
·- The black bryony (Tamus communis).
II. Lady's seal ·- The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum v...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Solomon's seal
·add. ·- A mystic symbol consisting of two interlaced triangles forming a star with six points, ofte...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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solomon's seal
n.
Not the Old World plant,which is of the genus Polygonatum, but the Tasmanianname for Drymophila ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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harp-seal
The Phoca grœnlandica, a species of seal from the Arctic seas; so called from the form of a dark-bro...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Brown bill
·- A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. ·see 4th Bill.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Brown race
·add. ·- The Malay or Polynesian race;
— loosely so called.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Brown thrush
·- A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird;
— also called ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Cassel brown
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Cassel earth.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hair-brown
·adj Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of r...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Nut-brown
·adj Brown as a nut long kept and dried.
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Whity-brown
·adj Of a color between white and brown.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Brown, Thomas
(1778-1820)
Metaphysician, s. of the Rev. Samuel B., minister of Kirkinabreck, practised for some t...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Tom
(1663-1704)
Satirist, was ed. at Oxf., and there composed the famous epigram on Dr. Fell. He was fo...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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brown bess
A soldier's firelock. To hug brown Bess; to carry a firelock, or serve as a private soldier.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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brown george
An ammunition loaf, A wig without powder; similar to the undress wig worn by his majesty.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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brown madam, or miss brown
The monosyllable.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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brown study
Said of one absent, in a reverie, or thoughtful.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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brown snake
n. See under snake.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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brown-tail
n.
bird-name for the TasmanianTit. See Tit.
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii, pl. 54...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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brown study
Deep thought; absence of mind. "He is in a brown study," i. e. in deep thought, or intent upon his b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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brown thrasher
(Ferruginous thrush. Audubon Ornith.) The popular name of the brown thrush. It is also called the gr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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done brown
Thoroughly, effectually cheated, bamboozled. Of recent origin.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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brown bread
For RAVEL-BREAD, see Cowel's Interpreter in voce PANIS.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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brown bess
A nickname for the old government regulation bronzed musket, although till recently it was brightly ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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brown bill
The old weapon of the English infantry: hence, perhaps the expression "Brown Bess" for a musket.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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brown george
A hard and coarse biscuit.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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brown janet
A cant phrase for a knapsack.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Brown, Charles Brockden
(1771-1810)
Novelist, b. in Philadelphia, belonged to a Quaker family, became a lawyer, but exchang...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, George Douglas
(1869-1902)
Novelist, wrote The House with the Green Shutters, which gives a strongly outlined pict...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Dr. John
(1810-1882)
Physician and essayist, s. of John B., D.D., a distinguished dissenting minister in Edi...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Thomas Edward
(1830-1897)
Poet, b. at Douglas, Isle of Man, s. of a clergyman, and ed. there and at Oxf., entered...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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Brown, Peter Hume
LL.D.
(b. 1850)
Historian. George Buchanan, Humanist and Reformer (1890), Early Travellers in Scot...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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brown tree-lizard
n.
of New Zealand, Naultinus pacificus.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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whity-brown bread
See ravel-bread before.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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whity-brown paper
See ravel-bread before.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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brown-paper warrant
See warrant.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Brown Bear Alley or Court
North out of Upper East Smithfield, at No. 1, in the parish of St. Botolph, Aldgate (L.C.C. List, 19...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.