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Refers in an insulting manner to a 'first year' at school. Probably comes from squashing together "fresh herring" originally but nobody seems to know for sure. This might be specific to King Edward's School, Birmingham UK as I've never heard of it used elsewhere. A good word though I think. (ed: indeed it is... got any more?)
To inhale cocaine; heroin
heroin
Herring (shortened from herring and kipper is London Cockney rhyming slang for stripper.
A bearing taken on an object behind the vessel.
Tearing is old slang for impressive, splendid, grand.
Heroin
Heroina is slang for heroin.
The bearing of an object in relation to north. Either true bearing, using the geographical or true north, or magnetic bearing, using magnetic north. See also bearing and relative bearing.
A bearing relative to the direction of the ship; the clockwise angle between the ship's direction and an object. See also absolute bearing and bearing.
Herring bone is London Cockney rhyming slang for telephone.
Zerking is American slang for odd, eccentric, bizarre.
The horizontal direction of a line of sight between two objects on the surface of the earth. See also absolute bearing and relative bearing.
heroin
Herring and kipper is London Cockney rhyming slang for stripper.
Horning is slang for boasting, showing off. Horning is slang for heroin.Horning is slang for inhaling a narcotic drug.
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Attention to what is delivered; opportunity to be heard; audience; as, I could not obtain a hearing.
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Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring.
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Tending to cure; soothing; mollifying; as, the healing art; a healing salve; healing words.
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Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.
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The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery.
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Tending or serving to heal; healing.
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Alt. of Hirling
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A herring preserved in brine; a pickled herring.
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Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
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That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.
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Serving to carry; bearing.
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One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities.
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A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines.
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That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.
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The act or power of perceiving sound; perception of sound; the faculty or sense by which sound is perceived; as, my hearing is good.
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The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
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Pertaining to the harp; as, harping symphonies.
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Serving to help or assist; helping.
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See Furring.
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