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Example sentences for "generally applied"

  • A man who takes an oath: generally applied to Jew bail.

  • One whose garments are bespattered with dag or dew: generally applied to the female sex, to signify a slattern.

  • To waddle: generally applied to persons who have one leg shorter than the other, and who, as the sea phrase is, go upon an uneven keel.

  • In printing offices, the term is generally applied to the old tin box in which is thrown the broken or spoilt type, purchased by the founders for re-casting.

  • GUMMY, thick, fat—generally applied to a woman’s ancles, or to a man whose flabby person betokens him a drunkard.

  • In fortification, a work composed of two faces meeting in a salient angle, from the inner extremities of which two short flanks run towards the rear, leaving an open gorge; it is generally applied only in connection with other works.

  • Is generally applied to a vessel condemned as unfit for the risks of the sea, and used as a store-vessel and housing for crews while refitting the vessels they belong to.

  • Bellying canvas is generally applied to a vessel going free, as when the belly and foot reefs which will not stand on a wind, are shaken out.

  • Bed-Fagot~, a contemptuous term for a woman; generally applied to a prostitute.

  • An intelligent being or spirit; -- generally applied to pure spirits; as, a created intelligence.

  • Defn: A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.

  • The word is generally applied only to the straight bar with supporting arch.

  • The term is generally applied to conveyances of real estate, and it is the prevailing doctrine that a deed must be signed as well as sealed, though at common law signing was formerly not necessary.

  • The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being drunk; but was; duty towards; earthen vessels; generally accepted; generally applied; generally believed; generally called; generally considered; generally distributed; generally known; generally made; generally preferred; generally represented; generally supposed; generally termed; generally understood; hand door; little crowd; merely nominal; tail blackish; teaching school; true sense; white raiment; whole wheat; you suppose