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471 words match “HOLLAND”

not over them. Cf. Deck bridge, under Deck. -- Through cold, a deep-seated cold. [Obs.] Holland. -- Through stone, a flat gravestone. [Scot.] [Written also through stane.] Sir W. Scott. -- Through ticket, a ticket for the whole journey. -- Through train, a train which goes the whole length of a railway, or of a lo…

The female of the tiger. Holland.

To sound or ring, as a bell; to tinkle. [R.] Holland.

, . . . being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird. Holland.

To labor; to work; -- often with out. [R.] Places well toiled and husbanded. Holland. [I] toiled out my uncouth passage. Milton.

Topical. Drayton. Holland.

cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.

A dragnet. [Obs.] Holland.

TRANSLAVATION n.

A laving or lading from one vessel to another. [Obs.] Holland.

TRANSVASATION n.

The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another. [Obs.] Holland.

The dung of sheep or hares. Holland.

Government by three persons; a triumvirate; also, a country under three rulers. Holland.

lodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake." Holland.

A screen, or sieve, for grain. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Holland.

ght natural covering; an integument. The tunicles that make the ball or apple of the eye. Holland.

Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous. [Obs.] Holland.

t of one who, or of that which, twinkles; a quick movement of the eye; a wink; a twinkle. Holland.

To hang under or down; to suspend. Holland.

Unhandy; clumsy; awkward; inconvenient. [Obs.] The ships were unwieldy and unhandsome. Holland. A narrow, straight path by the water's side, very unhandsome for an army to pass that way, though they found not a man to keep the passage. Sir T. North. -- Un*hand"some*ly, adv. -- Un*hand"some*ness, n.

e at Rome . . . call them unions, as a man would say "singular," and by themselves alone. Holland. In the cup an union shall he throw, Richer than that which four successive kings In Denmark's crown have worn. Shak.