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• Thousand

  ·noun Hence, indefinitely, a great number. II. Thousand ·adj Hence, consisting of a great number in...

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• legs

  (See angle.) A fast-sailing vessel is said to have legs. ♦ Legs are used in cutters, yachts, &c., ...

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• thousand-jacket

  n. a North Island name for Ribbon-wood (q.v.), a New Zealand tree. Layer afterlayer of the inner ba...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Sea legs

  ·- Legs able to maintain their possessor upright in stormy weather at sea, that is, ability stand or...

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• The Three Legs

  In Cannon Street, 1655 (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 201). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• duck legs

  Short legs. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• irish legs

  Thick legs, jocularly styled the Irish arms. It is said of the Irish women, that they have a dispens...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• forty-legs

  n. name given to a millipede, Cermatia smithii. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• catharpin legs

  See cat-harpings ...

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• cuddy-legs

  A name in the north for large herrings. ...

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• sea-legs

  Implies the power to walk steadily on a ship's decks, notwithstanding her pitching or rolling. ...

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• like a thousand of brick

  A queer simile very often heard. It means, of course, very heavily; and then, vigorously; vehemently...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• the upper ten thousand

  and contracted, THE UPPER TEN. The aristocracy; the upper circles of our large cities. A phrase inve...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• jack of legs

  A tall long-legged man; also a giant, said to be buried in Weston church, near Baldock, in Hertfords...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• jack-o-legs

  a clasp knife. N. ...

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

• legs and wings

  See over-masted. ...

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• legs of the martinets

  Small lines through the bolt-ropes of the courses, above a foot in length, and spliced at either end...

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