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One got a "ling" when riding your bicycle and held on to a moving motor vehicle with one hand to save pedalling. A red traffic light or stop sign was a good place to start a ling. A long tow was a good ling. "I got a ling all the way home yesterday". The word was common at schools in Melbourne around 1939 to 1943. The best place to hold onto for a ling was somewhere outside of the drivers vision in his rear mirrors. If a driver knew that he had picked up a ling he would often speed up to frighten the linger into letting go of his handhold. Flat tray trucks were excellent to get a ling on because there were plenty of hand holds.
night-vision telescope, used by snipers and basecamp defense troops to see in the dark.
An Indian male who dressed and lived entirely as a woman, fulfilling a cultural role within the tribe. Sometimes called in Indian languages a "would be woman" and sometimes thought of as a third sex. Common among the tribes of the Americas, these men-women had social and religious powers. They might be givers of sacred names; leaders of ceremonial dances; visionaries and predictors of the future; matchmakers; etc. Understood as following a vision by most Indians, they were not tolerated by whites. They persist today, discreetly.
A liquor specific brand of beer goggles.
To stare at or be stared at hard. Originally this was from people of color who were stared at by store or shop owners/ workers who thought that you were gonna steel something. So the shop owner/ worker will follow you around the store and hawk you. referring to a bird of prey with great vision.
Refers to Dante's likening of his single glimpse of Beatrice as being a life-altering event he likened to his later glimpse of God (in the Divine Comedy. Picked up by gays and refers to the chance sighting of a perfect male face or form.
v. Term meaning to get taken over, often used in the context of violence like getting jumped or even in the context of drugs like getting drunk or high. "Johnny messin’ with them ballers from the East Side and gonna get washed if he ain’t careful." Lyrical reference: HIEROGLYPHIC'S - All Things (Album: 3rd Eye Vision 1998) All things, ain't, what they seemYou'll get washed; even if you're way too cleanÂ
Eyes. She got beatiful minces.
Used in submarines, to ensure all interior lighting is red and of low intensity so as to preserve night vision. See "Darken Ship".
To stare at or be stared at hard. Originally this was from people of color who were stared at by store or shop owners/ workers who thought that you were gonna steel something. So the shop owner/ worker will follow you around the store and hawk you. referring to a bird of prey with great vision.
a draft horse with a profile that bulges slightly outward from the eyes; an undesirable trait in other breeds because it indicates coarseness and can interfere with vision.
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The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.
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Beatified.
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Alt. of Beatifical
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of Visionary
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The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.
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To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
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One whose imagination is disturbed; one who sees visions or phantoms.
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To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.
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In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
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To beatify.
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A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic.
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of Beatify
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To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
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Destitute of vision; sightless.
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Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful.
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of Beatify
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Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific.
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To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify.
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Having the power of seeing visions; inspired; also, seen in visions.
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A visionary.
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