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RODE |
Was Carried |
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DRIFTED |
Was carried by a tidal current |
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BADLYDONE |
Yob landed awkwardly and was carried out clumsily |
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ALBORAK |
The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said
to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule. |
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GANZA |
A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was
fabled to be carried to the lunar world. |
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LOMBARD |
A money lender or banker; -- so called because the
business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards. |
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CHAPEL |
A printing office, said to be so called because printing
was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. |
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CORNET |
The lowest grade of commissioned officer in a British
cavalry troop, who carried the standard. The office was abolished in
1871. |
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TABERNACLE |
A portable structure of wooden framework covered with
curtains, which was carried through the wilderness in the Israelitish
exodus, as a place of sacrifice and worship. |
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DEFERENT |
An imaginary circle surrounding the earth, in whose
periphery either the heavenly body or the center of the heavenly body's
epicycle was supposed to be carried round. |
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KNIGHT BANNERET |
...s
to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to
serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was
some... |
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MUSKET |
A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an
army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for
which several ... |
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IMPERATOR |
...an
appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general
after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a
r... |
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SCHOONER |
... masts
and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or
both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer
... |