-
Cold
·vi To become cold.
II. Cold ·noun Not pungent or acrid.
III. Cold ·noun Not sensitive; not acute....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
cold
You will catch cold at that; a vulgar threat or advice to desist from an attempt. He caught cold by ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
Stone
·noun A precious stone; a gem.
II. Stone ·noun One of the testes; a testicle.
III. Stone ·noun The...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stone
Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events (Gen. 28:18; Josh. 24...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
-
stone
Two stone under weight, or wanting; an eunuch. Stone doublet; a prison. Stone dead; dead as a stone....
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
stone
The old term for a gun-flint.
...
The Sailor's Word-Book
-
Cold wave
·add. ·- In the terminology of the United States Weather Bureau, an unusual fall in temperature, to ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Cold-blooded
·adj Deficient in sensibility or feeling; hard-hearted.
II. Cold-blooded ·adj Not thoroughbred;
— ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Cold-hearted
·adj Wanting passion or feeling; indifferent.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Cold-short
·adj Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.
II. Cold-short ·add. ·adj Brittle when cold (that is, ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Cold-shut
·noun An imperfection caused by such insufficient welding.
II. Cold-shut ·adj Closed while too cold...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Key-cold
·adj Cold as a metallic key; lifeless.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Cold Abbeye
A tenement so called in Wendageynes Lane held under the Fraternity of St. Katherine in the Church of...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
cold pye
A punishment inflicted on any person sleeping in company: it consists in wrapping up cotton in a cas...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
cold burning
A punishment inflicted by private soldiers on their comrades for trifling offences, or breach of the...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
cold cook
An undertaker of funerals, or carrion hunter.
See carrion hunter.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
cold iron
A sword, or any other weapon for cutting or stabbing. I gave him two inches of cold iron into his be...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
cold meat
A dead wife is the beat cold meat in a man's house.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
cold pig
To give cold pig is a punishment inflicted on sluggards who lie too long in bed: it consists in pull...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
cold pudding
This is said to settle one's love.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
bitter cold
Very cold. This common colloquial expression is used alike in England and America.
Those who say it...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
-
cold fire
a fire laid ready for lighting. York.
...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
-
cold-chisel
A stout chisel made of steel, used for cutting iron when it is cold.
...
The Sailor's Word-Book
-
cold-eel
The Gymnotus electricus.
...
The Sailor's Word-Book
-
Alum stone
·- A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Amazon stone
·noun A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Arch stone
·- A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Caen stone
·- A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Cross-stone
·noun ·see <<Harmotome>>, and <<Staurotide>>.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Dry-stone
·adj Constructed of uncemented stone.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Gravel-stone
·noun A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Grindle stone
·- A <<Grindstone>>.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Jew's-stone
·noun ·Alt. of <<Jewstone>>.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Moabite stone
·add. ·- A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which b...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Perpend stone
·- ·see <<Perpender>>.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Perpent stone
·- ·see <<Perpender>>.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Portland stone
·- A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in buildin...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Pumice stone
·- ·same·as <<Pumice>>.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Purbeck stone
·- A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Rocking-stone
·noun A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised tha...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stepping-stone
·noun Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.
II. Stepping-stone ·noun A stone to raise the feet ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stone-blind
·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stone-dead
·adj As dead as a stone.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stone-deaf
·adj As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stone-hearted
·adj Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stone-horse
·noun <<Stallion>>.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stone-still
·adj As still as a stone.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stumbling-stone
·noun A stumbling-block.
...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Moabite Stone
A basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a Germ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
-
Sardine stone
(Rev. 4:3, R.V., "sardius;" Heb. odhem; LXX., Gr. sardion, from a root meaning "red"), a gem of a bl...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
-
London Stone
A rounded block of stone set in a large stone case, in which is an oval opening through which it can...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
Stone Court
1) East out of Gutter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1720 and 1755).
"Ston...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
Stone Rente
A tenement so called in parish of St. Laurence Jewry, 20 Rich. II. 1397 (Cal. P.R. Rich. II. 1396-9,...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
Stone Wharf
Messuage and wharf called " Stonwharf" in parish of All Hallows de Berkingecherche, 1304 (Ct. H.W. I...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
Waetmundes Stone
In a grant by King Aelfred and Ethelred to the Bishop and Church of Worcester in 889, mention is mad...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
stone jug
Newgate, or any other prison.
...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
-
oamaru stone
n.
Oamaru is a town on the eastcoast of the South Island of New Zealand. It produces a finebuilding...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
-
stone-lifter
n.
a Melbourne name for the fish Kathetostoma laeve, Bl., family T rachinidae,one of the genera of ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
-
burr-stone
A species of silex or quartz occurring in morphous masses, partly compact, but containing many irreg...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
-
cling-stone
A variety of the peach in which the flesh adheres, or clings, firmly to the stone. When the stone re...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
-
curb-stone
A border to a pavement, consisting of stone slabs set on edge, which form the separation between it ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
-
stone-root
(Lat. Collinconia Canadensis.) A plant used in medicine. Its properties are diuretic and stomachic.
...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
-
stone toter
The most singular fish in this part of the world [the Southern States] is called the stone-toter, wh...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
-
grindle-stone
a grind-stone. North.
...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
-
hud-stone
the side of a fire-grate, to set any thing upon. North.
...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
-
battling-stone
A large stone with a smooth surface by the side of a stream, on which washers beat their linen.
...
The Sailor's Word-Book
-
drip-stone
The name usually given to filters composed of porous stone.
...
The Sailor's Word-Book
-
holy-stone
A sandstone for scrubbing decks, so called from being originally used for Sunday cleaning, or obtain...
The Sailor's Word-Book
-
stone-bow
A cross-bow for shooting stones.
...
The Sailor's Word-Book
-
suck-stone
An archaic name for the remora.
...
The Sailor's Word-Book
-
Ro-setta stone
·- A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
-
Stone Cutter's Yard
West out of Poor Jewry Lane. In Aldgate Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799), west of Northumberland Alle...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
Stone Cutters' Yard
South out of Half Moon Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 108).
The site ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
(St.) Swithin, London Stone
On the north side of Cannon Street at No.113, at the south-west corner of St. Swithin's Lane (P.O. D...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
Abel, Stone Of
(the great abel)
the place where the ark rested in the field of Joshua at Beth-shemesh. (1 Samuel 6...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
-
Bohan, Stone Of
a stone erected in honor of Bohan on the boundary between Judah and Benjamin, in the valley of Achor...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
-
Moabite Stone, The
In the year 1868 Rev. F. Klein, of the Church Missionary Society at Jerusalem, found at Dhiban (the ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
-
cold as presbyterian charity
I know not the origin of this saying, and am not aware that there is less charity in this sect than ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
-
(St.) Martin towards London Stone
Parr'. s' Mart'. vs lundeneston, 13th cent. (MSS. D. and C. St. Paul's, W.D. 12).
Qy. = St. Martin ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
-
Stone Cross in Cheap
Hugh of the Stone Cross in the Ward of Chepe is mentioned in 10 Ed. I. 1282 in Cal. L. Bk. B. p.13.
...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.