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Mariner’s Sketches 196: Knock him down first and ‘argufy the topic’ with him afterwards.at argufy, v.
Mariner’s Sketches 196: Knock him down first and ‘argufy the topic’ with him afterwards. Mariner’s Sketches 153: Some ‘O! be joyful’ was ‘being making’ [...] into hot sling.at o-be-joyful, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 103: All nations who shall dare to ‘bite their thumb’ at the said sailors.at bite one’s/the thumb at (v.) under bite, v.
Mariner’s Sketches 172: He walked about the decks, holding the lame hand in the well one, and constantly repeating, ‘O! bobbery, bobbery, bobbery!’.at bobbery!, excl.
Mariner’s Sketches 174: The ‘tarry jackets! kept their skins tolerably well filled with good liquor.at tarry-breeks, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 88: The loss of the tail, or cue, is an indelible disgrace to an inhabitant of the Celestial Empire.at celestial, adj.2
Mariner’s Sketches 102: Selfish, sordid, cold-blooded, calculating, cent-per-cent Americans.at cent per cent, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 195: The Peruvian war brig [...] which these hen-hearted loons had taken for a pirate.at chicken-hearted, adj.
Mariner’s Sketches 93: On certain days the Chinese ‘chin-chin’ for Josh [i.e Joss] as they call it, which is the nearest approach to worship I ever saw.at chin, v.
Mariner’s Sketches 50: She was apparently less ‘crank in the upper works’ then.at crank, adj.1
Mariner’s Sketches 125: A beverage which an English sailor on board very appropriately characterized as ‘lob’s dominion, two buckets of water and an old shoe’.at lob-dominion, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 103: Negro-driving skippers of merchantmen.at nigger-driving (adj.) under nigger-driver, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 184: Lord Bentinck [...] paraded about the streets, in a phaeton, a very indifferent Jehu indeed.at jehu, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 222: The Frenchman [...] had a been captured three times [...] a ‘singular coincidence’ that ‘Johnny Crapaud’ did mnot seem disposed to forget or forgive.at Johnny Crapose (n.) under johnny-, pfx
Mariner’s Sketches 147: It was not difficult to perceive that in the Indian hug or Kentucky bite, I should stand no chance at all [DA].at Kentucky bite (n.) under Kentucky, adj.
Mariner’s Sketches 195: The Peruvian war brig [...] which these hen-hearted loons had taken for a pirate.at loon, n.1
Mariner’s Sketches 166: I nibbled but sparingly at the mahogany.at mahogany, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 7: The mynheers conceiving it a species of nautical high treason to shorten the distance.at mynheer, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 7: The ceremony of shaving on crossing the line was omitted, to the manifest disappointment of the ‘old salts’.at salt, n.2
Mariner’s Sketches 34: Has your skipper begun to cut any shines yet?at cut a shine (v.) under shine, n.2
Mariner’s Sketches 23: The advice of the old French pilot [...] not to drink too much water, but always qualify it with a little steam [i.e. rum].at steam, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 124: A solitary Spanish dollar [...] having probably undergone a ‘sweating’ or partial fusion in a Chinese crucible before it was returned into the hands of a [...] white man.at sweat, v.1
Mariner’s Sketches 106: [of Chinese women’s dress] Underneath this frock was that garment [i.e. a form of trousers] that has as good a claim to be called ‘inexpressible’ or ‘unmentionable’ as the corresponding one, belonging, of right, to our sex.at unmentionables, n.
Mariner’s Sketches 50: She was apparently less ‘crank in the upper works’ then.at upper storey (n.) under upper, adj.
Mariner’s Sketches 223: Hanging, or as sailors call it, ‘taking a walk up Ladder lane and down Hemp street’.at walk up ladder Lane and down Hemp Street (v.) under walk, v.
Mariner’s Sketches 195: A terrible cock and bull story about their ship having been taken by a pirate [...] We were [...] volunteering to [....] bring in this ‘salt water rat’ by the ears.at water rat (n.) under water, n.1
Mariner’s Sketches 116: Stragglers [...] who are too frequently so much ‘in the wind’ as to be incapable of defence.at in the wind under wind, n.2
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