Thorough bass

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• Thorough

  ·adv <<Through>>. II. Thorough ·prep <<Through>>. III. Thorough ·adv <<Thoroughly>>. IV. Thorough...

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• Bass

  ·pl of Bass. II. Bass ·adj Deep or grave in tone. III. Bass ·noun A hassock or thick mat. IV. Bas...

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• bass

  a hassock to kneel upon at church. N. ...

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• bass

  , or bast A soft sedge or rush (Juncus lævis), of which coarse kinds of rope and matting are made....

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• Thorough-brace

  ·noun A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a sp...

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• Thorough-lighted

  ·adj Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. ...

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• thorough churchman

  A person who goes in at one door of a church, and out at the other, without stopping. ...

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• thorough cough

  Coughing and breaking wind backwards at the same time. ...

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• thorough stitch

  To go thorough stitch; to stick at nothing; over shoes, over boots. ...

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• thorough-foots

  See thorough-puts ...

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• thorough-puts

  , or thorough-foots , are kinks or tangles in a rope; or parts of a tackle not leading fair by rea...

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• Bass drum

  ·- The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. ...

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• Bass horn

  ·- A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone. ...

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• Bass viol

  ·- A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. ·see 3d Bass, ·noun, and <<Violo...

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• Bass-relief

  ·noun Some as Bas-relief. ...

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• Black bass

  ·- The sea bass. ·see <<Blackfish>>, 3. II. Black bass ·- An edible, fresh-water fish of the United...

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• Sea bass

  ·- A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); — called also white sea bass, and sea salmon. II. Se...

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• Sub-bass

  ·noun The deepest pedal stop, or the lowest tones of an organ; the fundamental or ground bass. ...

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• red bass

  n. a fish of Moreton Bay (q.v.), Mesoprion superbus, Castln., family Percidae. ...

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• otsego bass

  ♦ Coregonus otsego, a fish of the American lakes. ...

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• thorough go nimble

  A looseness, a violent purging. ...

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• Mullinger, James Bass

  (b. 1834) Historian. Cambridge Characteristics in the Seventeenth Century (1867), The Ancient Afric...

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• thorough-good-natured wench

  One who being asked to sit down, will lie down. ...

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