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Amorayle
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
An archaism of admiral.
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Amorc, английский
[fr.] a word sometimes used to signify priming-powder.
Amok, английский
A term signifying slaughter, but denoting the practice of the malays, when infuriated to madness with bang (a preparation from a species of hemp), of sallying into the streets, or decks, to murder any whom they may chance to meet, until they are either slain or fall from exhaustion.—to run a-muck. to run madly and attack all we meet (pope, dryden). as in the case of mad dogs, certain death awaited them, for if not killed in being taken, torture and impalement followed.
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