Glossary list
Glossaries
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| Blood_and_‘ouns¹ | Blood and wounds of Christ. an oath
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| blood_horse¹ | a horse of good stock or breed; especially a thoroughbred [OED]
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| blown up(1) | to be the object of anger; to be admonished fiercely [OED]
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| Blueberry¹ | European Blueberry: Vaccinium myrtillus is a species of shrub with edible fruit of blue colour, commonly called "bilberry", "wimberry", "whortleberry". Related to, but not the same as the American Blueberry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_myrtillus
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| blue_bag¹ | blue bag - A barrister's (originally a solicitor's) brief bag made of blue fabric, now typically carried by a junior barrister.
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| blue_ruin¹ | Gin. especially gin of poor quality [OED]
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| blue² | Depressed, low-spirited, sad, sorrowful; dismayed, downcast [OED] |
| blue¹ | A blue powder used to combat yellowing, and hence pre-serve the whiteness of garments and fabrics in laundering, by adding a slight tint of blue. [OED]
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| Blunderbuss(1) | A short gun with a large bore, firing many balls or slugs, and capable of doing execution within a limited range without exact aim [OED]
A blunderbuss made in Birmingham c.1840
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| Boa | A long round narrow slip of cloth or hanging part of dress, formerly worn, either attached to and forming part of the hood, head-dress, or sleeve, or loose, as a scarf or the like. Sometimes called a tippet by the English.
Lady Wearing a Feather Boa Mid 1830s
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| Boatman_Dance¹ | A black-face minstrel song dating to 1843. {Roud 5898}
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| boatswain | Boatswain: A ship's officer in charge of equipment (in a sailing ship, esp. the sails, rigging, cables, etc.) and the work of the crew on deck [OED]
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| bobbies(1) | Policemen. A vernacular term derived from the name of Robert Peel who established the Metropolitan Police. The OED cites 1844 as the earliest use of the term.
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| Bobby(1) | Robert Peel 1788 – 1850. Re-introduced income tax in his 1842 Budget.
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| bob¹ | Shilling, 12 old pence or a coin to that value
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| boer¹ | A Dutch-speaking or (later) Afrikaans-speaking farmer in southern Africa. [OED]
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| bohea¹ | A variety of Chinese tea The name was given in the beginning of the 18th cent. to the finest kinds of black tea; but the quality now known as ‘Bohea’ is the lowest, being the last crop of the season. [OED]. The OED cites "J. R. McCulloch Dict. Commerce 1290 The black teas..beginning with the lowest qualities: Bohea, Congou, Souchong, and Pekoe."
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| bombazine¹ | A twilled or corded dress-material, composed of silk and worsted; sometimes also of cotton and worsted, or of worsted alone. In black the material is much used in mourning. [OED]
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| book off(1) | record the end of your shift in a book
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| boothers(1) | Stones
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