Morris |
A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets. |
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Morris |
A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters. |
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Morris |
An old game played with counters, or men, which are placed angles of a figure drawn on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. |
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Morris |
A marine fish having a very slender, flat, transparent body. It is now generally believed to be the young of the conger eel or some allied fish. |
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Pike |
A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet. |
n. & v. |
Pike |
A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target. |
n. & v. |
Pike |
A hayfork. |
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Pike |
A pick. |
n. & v. |
Pike |
A pointed or peaked hill. |
n. & v. |
Pike |
A large haycock. |
n. & v. |
Pike |
A turnpike; a toll bar. |
n. & v. |
Pike |
A large fresh-water fish (Esox lucius), found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack. |
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Pike-devant |
A pointed beard. |
n. |
Sea pike |
The garfish. |
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Sea pike |
A large serranoid food fish (Centropomus undecimalis) found on both coasts of America; -- called also robalo. |
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Sea pike |
The merluce. |
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Etter pike |
The stingfish, or lesser weever (Tranchinus vipera). |
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Gar pike |
Alt. of Garpike |
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Half-pike |
A short pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. |
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