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741 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HABERGEON.1 (Noah Webster)
HABERGEON, n. A coat of mail or armor to defend the neck and breast. It was formed of little iron rings united, and descended from the neck to the middle of the body.
742 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HANDCUFF.1 (Noah Webster)
HANDCUFF, n. A manacle, consisting of iron rings for the wrists, and a connecting chain to confine the hands.
743 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HANK.3 (Noah Webster)
2. In ships. a wooden ring fixed to a stay, to confine the stay-sails; used in the place of a grommet.
744 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HAY.3 (Noah Webster)
To dance the hay, to dance in a ring.
745 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HITCH.5 (Noah Webster)
2. In seamen’s language, a knot or noose in a rope for fastening it to a ring or other object; as a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc.
746 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOG-RINGER.1 (Noah Webster)
HOG-RINGER, n. One whose business is to put rings in the snouts of swine.
747 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. HOOP.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Something resembling a hoop; a ring; any thing circular.
748 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. IMPETIGINOUS.2 (Noah Webster)
Resembling the ring-worm or tetters; covered with scaled or scabs; scurfy.
749 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. KEY.12 (Noah Webster)
KEY, n. A bank or wharf built on the side of a river or harbor, for the convenience of loading and unloading ships, and securing them in their stations. Hence keys are furnished with posts, rings, cranes, capstans, etc. It is sometimes written quay.
750 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. KNOLL.1 (Noah Webster)
KNOLL, v.t. noll. [See Knell .] To ring a bell, usually for a funeral.
751 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. LINK.2 (Noah Webster)
1. A single ring or division of a chain.
752 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAIL.2 (Noah Webster)
… iron rings, each having four others inserted into it; the latter consisting of a number of small lamins of metal, laid over one another like the scales of a fish …
753 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAIL.6 (Noah Webster)
3. In ships, a square machine composed of rings interwoven, like net-work, used for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
754 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAKI.2 (Noah Webster)
The ring-tailed maki is of the size of a cat.
755 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MANIL.1 (Noah Webster)
MANIL, MANILLA, n. [L. manus.] A ring or bracelet worn by persons in Africa.
756 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MAZY.2 (Noah Webster)
To run the ring and trace the mazy round.
757 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. MUZZLE-RING.1 (Noah Webster)
MUZZLE-RING, n. The metalline ring or circle that surrounds the mouth of a cannon or other piece.
758 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. NECTARIAL.2 (Noah Webster)
Stamens inserted into the margin of a glandulous nectarial ring.
759 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. OFFER.12 (Noah Webster)
5. To bid, as a price, reward or wages; as, to offer ten eagles for a ring; to offer a hundred dollars a year for a laborer; to offer a salary.
760 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. PALLMALL.1 (Noah Webster)
PALLMALL, n. [L. pila, a ball, and malleus, mallet.] A play in which a ball is driven through an iron ring by a mallet; also, the mallet.