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Dead
·adj Bringing death; deadly.
II. Dead ·adj Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
III. Dea...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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dead
This word is vulgarly used in the sense of utter, complete. Ex. "A dead beat," i. e. a complete beat...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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
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Stone
Stones were commonly used for buildings, also as memorials of important events (Gen. 28:18; Josh. 24...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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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
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stone
The old term for a gun-flint.
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Dead beat
·- ·see <<Beat>>, ·noun, 7.
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Dead-eye
·noun A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Dead-hearted
·adj Having a dull, faint heart; spiritless; listless.
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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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Dead-reckoning
·noun ·see under Dead, a.
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Dead-stroke
·adj Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
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Dead Sea
The name given by Greek writers of the second century to that inland sea called in Scripture the "sa...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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dead cargo
A term used by thieves, when they are disappointed in the value of their booty.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead horse
To work for the dead horse; to work for wages already paid.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead-louse
Vulgar pronunciation of the Dedalus ship of war.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead men
A cant word among journeymen bakers, for loaves falsely charged to their masters' customers; also em...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead-bird
n.
In Australia, a recent slangterm, meaning «a certainty.» The metaphor is frompigeon-shooting, wh...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dead-finish
n.
a rough scrubtree.
1) Albizzia basaltica, Benth., N.O. Leguminosae.
2) Acacia farnesiana, Will...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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a dead set
A concerted scheme to defraud a person by gaming.--Grose, Slang Dict. This phrase seems to be taken ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead-alive
Dull, inactive, moping.--Barnes's Dorset Glossary. We often hear the expression, "He is a dead-alive...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead heads
Persons who drink at a bar, ride in an omnibus, or railroad car, travel in steamboats, or visit the ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead horse
Work for which one has been paid before it is performed. When a workman, on Saturday night, includes...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead letter
A writing or precept without any authority or force; a letter left in a post office and not called f...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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dead-angle
In fortification, is an angle receiving no defence, either by its own fire or that of any other work...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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dead-calm
A total cessation of wind; the same as flat-calm.
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dead-doors
Those fitted in a rabbet to the outside of the quarter-gallery doors, with the object of keeping out...
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dead-eye
, or dead man's eye.
A sort of round flattish wooden block, or oblate piece of elm, encircled, and...
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dead-flat
The timber or frame possessing the greatest breadth and capacity in the ship: where several timbers ...
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dead-freight
The sum to which a merchant is liable for goods which he has failed to ship.
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dead-head
A kind of dolphin (which see). Also, a rough block of wood used as an anchor-buoy.
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dead-headed
Timber trees which have ceased growing.
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dead-horse
A term applied by seamen to labour which has been paid for in advance. When they commence earning mo...
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dead-lift
The moving of a very inert body.
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dead-lights
Strong wooden shutters made exactly to fit the cabin windows externally; they are fixed on the appro...
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dead-lown
A completely still atmosphere.
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dead-men
The reef or gasket-ends carelessly left dangling under the yard when the sail is furled, instead of ...
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dead-months
A term for winter.
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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...
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dead-reckoning
The estimation of the ship's place without any observation of the heavenly bodies; it is discovered ...
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dead-rising
In ship-building, is that part of a ship which lies aft between the keel and her floor-timbers towar...
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dead-ropes
Those which do not run in any block.
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dead-shares
An allowance formerly made to officers of the fleet, from fictitious numbers borne on the complement...
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dead-sheave
A scored aperture in the heel of a top-mast, through which a second top-tackle pendant can be rove. ...
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dead-ticket
Persons dying on board, those discharged from the service, and all officers promoted, are cleared fr...
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dead-water
The eddy-water under the counter of a ship under way; so called because passing away slower than the...
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dead weight
A vessel's lading when it consists of heavy goods, but particularly such as pay freight according to...
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dead wood
Certain blocks of timber, generally oak, fayed on the upper side of the keel, particularly at the ex...
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dead works
All that part of the ship which is above water when she is laden. The same as upper work, or superna...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Dead Sea
This name nowhere occurs in the Bible, and appears not to have existed until the second century afte...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Alum stone
·- A subsulphate of alumina and potash; alunite.
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Amazon stone
·noun A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color.
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Arch stone
·- A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
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Caen stone
·- A cream-colored limestone for building, found near Caen, France.
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Cross-stone
·noun ·see <<Harmotome>>, and <<Staurotide>>.
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Dry-stone
·adj Constructed of uncemented stone.
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Gravel-stone
·noun A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.
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Grindle stone
·- A <<Grindstone>>.
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Jew's-stone
·noun ·Alt. of <<Jewstone>>.
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Moabite stone
·add. ·- A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which b...
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Perpend stone
·- ·see <<Perpender>>.
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Perpent stone
·- ·see <<Perpender>>.
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Portland stone
·- A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in buildin...
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Pumice stone
·- ·same·as <<Pumice>>.
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Purbeck stone
·- A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.
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Rocking-stone
·noun A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised tha...
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Stepping-stone
·noun Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.
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Stone-blind
·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind.
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Stone-cold
·adj Cold as a stone.
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Stone-deaf
·adj As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.
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Stone-hearted
·adj Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
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Stone-horse
·noun <<Stallion>>.
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Stone-still
·adj As still as a stone.
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Stumbling-stone
·noun A stumbling-block.
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Moabite Stone
A basalt stone, bearing an inscription by King Mesha, which was discovered at Dibon by Klein, a Germ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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stone jug
Newgate, or any other prison.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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stone-root
(Lat. Collinconia Canadensis.) A plant used in medicine. Its properties are diuretic and stomachic.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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.
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grindle-stone
a grind-stone. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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hud-stone
the side of a fire-grate, to set any thing upon. North.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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battling-stone
A large stone with a smooth surface by the side of a stream, on which washers beat their linen.
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drip-stone
The name usually given to filters composed of porous stone.
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holy-stone
A sandstone for scrubbing decks, so called from being originally used for Sunday cleaning, or obtain...
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stone-bow
A cross-bow for shooting stones.
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suck-stone
An archaic name for the remora.
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dead-wood fence
n.
The Australian fence, socalled, is very different from the fence of the same name inEngland. It ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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dead man's eye
See dead-eye
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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dead-men's effects
When a seaman dies on board, or is drowned, his effects are sold at the mast by auction, and the pro...
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dead-on-end
The wind blowing directly adverse to the vessel's intended course.
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dead-wood knees
The upper foremost and aftermost pieces of dead wood; being crooked pieces of timber, the bolting of...
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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
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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.
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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.
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(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.
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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
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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
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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
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Baptism for the dead
Only mentioned in 1 Cor. 15:29. This expression as used by the apostle may be equivalent to saying, ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Resurrection of the dead
Will be simultaneous both of the just and the unjust (Dan. 12:2; John 5:28, 29; Rom. 2:6-16; 2 Thess...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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dead upon a wind
Braced sharp up and bowlines hauled.
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squaring the dead-eyes
Bringing them to a line parallel to the sheer of the ship.
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(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.
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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.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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dead as a door nail
Utterly, completely dead. The figure is that of a nail driven into wood, and, therefore, perfectly i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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score of a dead eye
The groove round which the rope passes.
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turn in a dead-eye or heart, to
To seize the end of a shroud or stay, &c., securely round it.
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