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torpedo
torpēdo, ĭnis, f. [torpeo], stiffness, numbness, inflexibility, sluggishness, torpidity. I Lit. (ra...

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torpedo
torpēdō inis, f torpeo, sluggishness, numbness , S., Ta.— The torpedo, cramp-fish, electric ray . ...

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Torpedo
·add. ·noun An automobile with a torpedo body. II. Torpedo ·vt to destroy by, or subject to the act...

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torpedo
n. a fish, well known elsewhere, andalso called elsewhere, the Numb-fish and Crampfish. For the Aus...

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torpedo
A cartilaginous fish allied to the rays, furnished with electrical organs, by means of which it is a...

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Body
·noun Amount; quantity; extent. II. Body ·noun A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; an...

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body
A person. A colloquial expression used both in England and America. Good may come out of evil, and ...

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body
a simpleton. N. ...

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body
The principal corps of an army, or the main strength of a fleet. ...

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Torpedo boom
·add. ·- A spar formerly carried by men-of-war, having a torpedo on its end. ...

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Torpedo catcher
·add. ·- A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats. ...

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Torpedo shell
·add. ·- A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the b...

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Torpedo station
·add. ·- A headquarters for torpedo vessels and their supplies, usually having facilities for repair...

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Torpedo stern
·add. ·- A broad stern without overhang, flattened on the bottom, used in some torpedo and fast powe...

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Torpedo tube
·add. ·- A tube fixed below or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a sm...

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Whitehead torpedo
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Whitehead>>. ...

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body snatchers
Bum bailiffs. ...

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poor body!
i. e. Poor Creature. Durham. ...

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after-body
That part of the ship's hull which is abaft the midships or dead-flat, as seen from astern. The term...

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body-hoops
Those which secure the aris pieces of a made mast. ...

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body-plan
The draught of a proposed ship, showing the breadth and timbers; it is a section supposed to cut the...

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body-post
An additional stern-post introduced at the fore-part of an aperture cut in the dead-wood in a ship f...

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cant-body
An imaginary figure of that part of a ship's body which forms the shape forward and aft, and whose p...

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dog's-body
Dried pease boiled in a cloth. ...

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fore-body
An imaginary figure of that part of the ship afore the midships or dead-flat, as seen from ahead. ...

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main-body
The body of troops that marches between the advance-guard and the rear-guard of an army. ...

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Torpedo-boat destroyer
·add. ·- A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended princi...

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body, of a place
In fortification, the space inclosed by the enceinte, or line of bastions and curtains. ...

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furling in a body
A method of rolling up a top-sail only practised in harbour, by gathering all the loose part of the ...

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longitude of a celestial body
An arc of the ecliptic, contained between the first point of Aries and a circle of longitude passing...

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terminal velocity of any given body
The greatest velocity it can acquire by falling freely through the air; the limit being arrived at w...

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body of divinity bound in black calf
A parson. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
hoddy doddy, all a-se and no body
A short clumsy person, either male or female. ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose