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The French name for a double saucepan like a glue-pot. The term is sometimes used in English kitchens. It appears earlier (as in Mrs. Glasse's Cookery Book, 1796) under its Latin name, Balneum Manx, hence the "St. Mary's bath" of Ben Jonson's Alchemist, II, in. The name is supposed to be due to the gentleness of this method of heating.
Luring someone with a attractive offer, then substituting something less desirable
Equipment for fishing
Make an attractive offer to get someone interested
to make something without a recipe or instructions
to create or concoct something
Seasoned, "he’s only HALF-BAKED," i.e., soft, inexperienced.
The queen.
Thirteen items, one more than a standard dozen
Thirteen for twelve. When a heavy penalty was inflicted for short weight, bakers used to give a surplus number of loaves, called the inbread, to avoid all risk of incurring the fine. The 13th was the "vantage loaf.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Knock-knee. Bakers were said to be particularly liable to this deformity owing to the constrained position in which they have to stand when kneading bread.
One whose knees knock together in walking, as if kneading dough.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Printers’ slang for matter kept in type about monstrous productions of nature, &c., to fill up spaces in newspapers that would otherwise be vacant. The term BALAAM-BOX has often been used as the name of a depository for rejected articles. Evidently from Scripture, and referring to the "speech of an ass."
Such an adjustment of power among sovereign States as results in no one nation having such a preponderance as could enable it to endanger the independence of the rest.
The money-value differ- ence between the exports and imports of a nation.
To offset or compensate for something
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
The coot has a strong, straight, and somewhat conical bill, the base of which tends to push up the forehead, and there dilates, so as to form a remarkable bare patch.
A term of derision applied to a person with a bald head. Also, still more coarsely, "BLADDER-OF-LARD."
The penis.
The literal meaning of this phrase is to ladle out with buckets, as when one empties the water out of a small boat. Among flying men "to bale out'* means to descend from an aeroplane by parachute when some emergency necessitating this arises, and in the army to get out of a tank in a hurry when it is hit.
to gather or collect something, especially hay or straw
An Australian term equivalent to our "Shell out." A demand for instantaneous payment.
A player who dominates the ball, refusing to pass to teammates.
A walk.
Someone or something full of energy and enthusiasm
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A nuisance.
The Straits of BALLAMBANGJANG, though unnoticed by geographers, are frequently mentioned in sailors’ yarns as being so narrow, and the rocks on each side so crowded with trees inhabited by monkeys, that the ship’s yards cannot be squared, on account of the monkey’s tails getting jammed into, and choking up, the brace blocks.—Sea.
Money. A rich man is said to be well-ballasted. If not proud and over-bearing he is said to carry his ballast well.
Very angry.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Semen.
The testicles of a man or beast; also a vulgar nick name for a parson. His brains are in his ballocks, a cant saying to designate a fool.
A situation becomes serious or chaotic
A knot that is easy to untie
Falsifying election results by adding fake votes
An approximate calculation or guess
An approximate number or estimate
key decisions or elements
Extremely courageous or fearless
To blather.
Weak-minded or idiotic (not insane).
Nonsense.
The penis.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
A jocular imposition, the same as a humbug. See HUMBUG.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
To deceive, make fun of, or cheat a person; abbreviated to BAM, which is sometimes used also as a substantive—a deception, a sham, a "sell." Swift says BAMBOOZLE was invented by a nobleman in the reign of Charles II.; but this is very likely an error. The probability is that a nobleman then first used it in polite society. The term is derived from the Gipsies.
Crazy.
Founded by the Rev. John Bampton, canon of Salisbury, who, in 1751, left £120 per annum to the university of Ox- ford, to pay for eight divinity lectures on given subjects to be preached yearly at Great St. Mary's, and printed afterwards. M.A.s of Oxford or Cambridge are eligible as lecturers, but the same person may never be chosen twice. Cp. HULSEAN LECTURES.
He beats Banaghan; an Irish saying of one who tells wonderful stories. Perhaps Banaghan was a minstrel famous for dealing in the marvellous.
a nose that is slightly upturned
Nonsense.
A country with a unstable government and economy
A fanciful and implausible tale
Unite to achieve a common goal or overcome a challenge
A temporary fix that doesn't address the underlying problem