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 3. Spanish Main. See note on 29, 1 above.

34, 1. Cocks. Soft hats used to be worn, with one or more of the sides drawn up and fastened to the crown. These flaps were called cocks.

35, 1. Powder. When wigs were in fashion they were frequently powdered white.

36, 1. Assizes. Courts of justice. The judges traveled from place to place and held these courts.

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38, 1. Cutlass. A short, heavy, curved sword.

42, 1. Swinging. Hanging. Criminals of all types have the habit of indicating certain unpleasant things by other than the common names.

43, 1. Showed a clean pair of heels. Ran well.

44, 1. Opened a vein. Bleeding the patient was one of the most common forms of treatment by physicians up to fifty years ago.<section end=n44-1 />

45, 1. <section begin=n45-1 />On your own back. To have a black dog on one’s back was an old expression for trouble, despondency and the like.<section end=n45-1 />

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47, 1. <section begin=n47-1 />Noggin. A small cup; or, as here, a portion or drink.<section end=n47-1 />

2. <section begin=n47-2 />Yellow-jack. Yellow fever. Another of the indications as to where Treasure Island lay.<section end=n47-2 />

3. <section begin=n47-3 />Hulk. A shipwrecked and stranded vessel.<section end=n47-3 />

4. <section begin=n47-4 />Lee. In nautical phrase, the side away from the wind.<section end=n47-4 />

5. <section begin=n47-5 />Fidges. Trembles, fidgets.<section end=n47-5 />

48, 1. <section begin=n48-1 />Lubbers. A seaman’s term of contempt for an incompetent person.<section end=n48-1 />

49, 1. <section begin=n49-1 />Shake out a reef. Let out more sail, get under way.<section end=n49-1 />

2. <section begin=n49-2 />Daddle. To fool, delude.<section end=n49-2 />

3. <section begin=n49-3 />Peach. Slang for betray.<section end=n49-3 />

50, 1. <section begin=n50-1 />Eat. The old form of the past tense; pronounced ĕt.<section end=n50-1 />

54, 1. <section begin=n54-1 />Tap-tap-tapping. Note here and again later how the tap-tapping of the blind man’s stick is made to arouse terror.<section end=n54-1 />

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56, 1. <section begin=n56-1 />Lugger. A sailing vessel of two or three masts, so called from the manner in which the sails are hung.<section end=n56-1 />

58, 1. <section begin=n58-1 />Gully. A sailor’s sheath-knife.<section end=n58-1 />

60, 1. <section begin="n60-1" /><section begin=n60-1 />Doubloons, etc. The doubloon was a Spanish-American gold coin worth about eight dollars; the louis d’or (gold louis) a French coin worth about four dollars and a half; the guinea, an <section end=n60-1 />