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Touch
·noun A boys' game; tag.
II. Touch ·v An emotion or affection.
III. Touch ·v A slight and brief es...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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touch
To touch; to get money from any one; also to arrest. Touched in the wind; broken winded. Touched in ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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touch
No touch to it, i. e. not to compare with it. A common expression in vulgar language.
The children ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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touch
In ship-building, the broadest part of a plank worked top-and-butt. Also, the angles of the stern-ti...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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Paper
·vt To fold or inclose in paper.
II. Paper ·noun A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.
III. P...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Paper
The expression in the Authorized Version (Isa. 19:7), "the paper reeds by the brooks," is in the Rev...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Touch-box
·noun A box containing lighted tinder, formerly carried by soldiers who used matchlocks, to kindle t...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Touch-needle
·noun A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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touch-box
The receptacle for lighted tinder when match-locks were used.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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touch-hole
The small aperture at the end of a musket or pistol, by which the fire of the priming was communicat...
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Alpha paper
·add. ·- A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin c...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Asthma paper
·add. ·- Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Blotting paper
·- A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written man...
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Carborundum paper
·add. ·- Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
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Casse Paper
·- Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream.
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Joss paper
·add. ·- Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and...
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Note paper
·- Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.
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Ozone paper
·add. ·- Paper coated with starch and potassium iodine. It turns blue when exposed to ozone.
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Torchon paper
·add. ·- Paper with a rough surface; ·esp., handmade paper of great hardness for the use of painters...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Paper Buildings
On the west side of King's Bench Walk, within the Temple precincts (P.O. Directory).
First mention:...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Paper Street
East out of Redcross Street at No.49, in Cripplegate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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paper scull
A thin-scull'd foolish fellow.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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paper-fish
n.
a Tasmanian name. See Bastard Trumpeter and Morwong.
1883. `Royal Commission on Fisheries of Ta...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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ravel-paper
Kent. A sort between white and brown, and called in the North whity-brown paper.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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muster-paper
A description of paper supplied from the dockyards, ruled and headed, for making ships' books.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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Touch-me-not
·noun ·see <<Impatiens>>.
II. Touch-me-not ·noun Squirting cucumber. ·see under <<Cucumber>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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touch-me-not
(Lat. impatiens noli tangere.) A plant found about brooks, and in moist places.--Michaux, Sylva. A p...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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touch-and-go
Said of anything within an ace of ruin; as in rounding a ship very narrowly to escape rocks, &c., or...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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touch-and-take
An old proverb which Nelson applied to a ship about to encounter her opponent. A Nelsonian maxim.
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phrase of paper
Half a quarter of a sheet.
See *vessel, physog.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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vessels of paper
Half a quarter of a sheet.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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paper-bark tree
or Paper-barked Tea-tree
,n.
Called also Milk-wood (q.v.). Name given tothe species Melaleuca leuc...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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phrase of paper
See fraze.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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vessel of paper
See fraze.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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whity-brown paper
See ravel-bread before.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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brown-paper warrant
See warrant.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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inside muster-paper
A description of paper supplied from the dockyards, ruled and headed, for making ships' books.
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outside muster-paper
A paper with the outer part blank, but the inner portion ruled and headed; supplied from the dock ya...
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protections, on paper
, against impressment, were but little regarded. Yet seafaring men above 55, and under 18, were by s...
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touch bun for luck
See bun.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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luff and touch her!
Try how near the wind she will come. (See touching.)
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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tar-brush, touch of the
A nautical term applied to those who are slightly darkened by mixed blood.
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touch of the tar-brush
A nautical phrase expressive of those officers who are seamen as well as quarter-deckers. Also said ...
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touch up in the bunt, to
To mend the sail on the yard; figuratively, to goad or remind forcibly.
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