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1. A navigable body of water. 2. In a passageway, the area where the bulkhead meets the deck. It is often painted a darker colour.
Painted peeper was th century British slang for a black eye.
Scanned by radar.
Not exactly slang, but what is it? Often utilized by the "painted ladies" in the west, laudanum was opium mixed with liquor.
The general term for the colour that Canadian warships are painted. The Navy started using the current hull grey in the late 50's. It was known as Grey 1-2 at first, and is now referred to as 501-109 (FS16480).
Prostitute.
Painted mischief is slang for playing cards.
Fifty-ton Santa Fe coal cars painted black
The extreme forward end of the ship. When a warship transists through fog, the Officer of the Watch often puts a lookout in the eyes of the ship. Derived from the Greeks, when their ships had large eyes painted on either side of the bow to help the vessel "see" where it was going.
In modern language this is the hull number, painted on the side of a warship. Incidentally, during WWII most of the RCN ships did not show a pendant number, so as to cloak their identities from the enemy.
A type of nail are where thin stripes are painted starting at the base of the nail and fad out toward (but not at) the tips of the nails to create the resemblance of a waterfall. (Example)
A prostitute.
The iron spheres positioned on either side of a magnetic compass, designed to correct magnetic errors caused by the ship itself. Usually they're painted green and red. Named after Admiral Horatio Nelson. Incidentally, in the RN, they're called "Lord Kelvin's Balls".
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An ornamented or painted ball or boss fastened at each end of the stick on which manuscripts were rolled.
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Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of gamopetalous plants (Scrophulariaceae, or Scrophularineae), usually having irregular didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia.
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That which is transparent; especially, a picture painted on thin cloth or glass, or impressed on porcelain, or the like, to be viewed by natural or artificial light, which shines through it.
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A garnment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with flames, figures, etc., and worn by persons who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for punishment at the auto-da-fe.
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Ornamentation by means of lacquer painted or carved, or simply colored, sprinkled with gold or the like; -- said especially of Oriental work of this kind.
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Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
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Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting.
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A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others.
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A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal, or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written, or painted; a tablet
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A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
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The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
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The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of Lake George.
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The art or process of coating the inside of glass vessels with engravings or paintings, so as to give them the appearance of painted ware.
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A beautifully colored finch (Passerina ciris), native of the Southern United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch.
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A mixture of white lead and lime, with which the bright parts of machines, such as the connecting rods of steamboats, are painted to be preserved from oxidation.
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A hat made of painted canvas, oiled cloth, or the like, with a flap at the back, -- worn in stormy weather.
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Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
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The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
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A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.
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