Spoon-meat

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• Spoon

  ·noun Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney. II. Spoon ·vi ·see <<Spoom>>. III. Spoon ·vt To take up in, or...

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• Meat

  ·vt To supply with food. II. Meat ·noun Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. III. Meat ·noun The ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• meat

  measure. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Meat

  It does not appear that the word "meat" is used in any one instance in the Authorized Version of eit...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Heart-spoon

  ·noun A part of the breastbone. ...

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• Spoon-billed

  ·adj Having the bill expanded and spatulate at the end. ...

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• spoon hand

  The right hand. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• wooden spoon

  (Cambridge.) The last junior optime. See wranglers, optime. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• spoon-drift

  A showery sprinkling of the water swept from the tops of the waves in a brisk gale. Driving snow is ...

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• spoon-ways

  In slave-ships, stowing the poor wretches so closely locked together, that it is difficult to move w...

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• Baked-meat

  ·noun A pie; baked food. ...

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• Duck's-meat

  ·noun <<Duckweed>>. ...

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• Mince-meat

  ·noun Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, ·etc., chopped ve...

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• Meat-offering

  (Heb. minhah), originally a gift of any kind. This Hebrew word came latterly to denote an "unbloody"...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• cold meat

  A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man's house. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jerked meat

  Beef and other kinds of fresh meat dried in the open air without salt. In Lower Canada and Newfoundl...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• making meat

  on the great Western prairies, consists in cutting into thin slices the boneless parts of the buffal...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• dish-meat

  spoon-meat. Kent. ...

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• trig-meat

  A western term for any kind of shell-fish picked up at low water. ...

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• Meat Offering

  The law or ceremonial of the meat offering is described in (Leviticus 2:1) ... and Levi 6:14-23 It w...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• preserved meat and vegetables

  The occasional use of such food and lime-juice at sea, is not only a great luxury, but in many cases...

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• savage as a meat axe

  Exceedingly hungry. This vulgar simile is often used in the Northern and Western States. "Why, you ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

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