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- tab
- tabby work
- tabby, tabby lime
- table-man
- taffia
- tago
- taily
- take
- take-through
- talk
- talking
- tall
- tamaring
- tambran
- tambran molasses
- tame
- tamlin
- tampy
- tank up
- tar
- tar baby, black tar baby
- tar brush; lick of the (tar) brush
- tardee
- tarpum
- tarty
- task
- tassel plant
- taste
- taw, tar
- tea
- tear-coat
- tear-up
- tease-tease
- tee-essie
- teenage
- teeth
- teethache
- teethbrush
- teeths
- teleberry
- telephone call you
- television pole
- tell
- tell-bill-willy
- tell-tale
- temple
- temple flower
- ten to two
- ten, ten, the Bible ten!
- tender
- tender rebel
- tennis
- tenny
- test (glasses) tested glasses
- tha's, da's
- tha's, da's (2)
- thanky
- that side
- that time
- thatch
- thatch broom
- thatch house
- thatch palmetto
- thatch top palm
- thatch tree
- thatchberry
- the
- them
- them (2)
- them (3)
- them there
- there
- there
- there-so
- they
- theyself
- thick-lip
- thickes'
- thief, teef
- thiefy
- thin-lip
- think
- this
- this here
- this quality people
- this side, that side
- this time
- thistle
- thorny apple
- those
- thought
- thoughten, thoughtin'
- thrash
- thrasher
- threaden
- three days
- three-finger
- three-leaf
- three-quarter pitch trousers
- three-stones
- threepence lizard
- thrive
- through
- through and through
- through the bush, in the bush
- throw
- thunder-ball, thunderstone
- thunder-rebel
- thunder-snake
- ti-es
- tick for tack
- tickle
- tickler
- tickning
- tide low
- tider wave
- tie (up)
- tie somebody loose
- tie-tongue
- tie-tongue
- tie-y
- tiger grouper
- tight
- tight bowels
- tight up
- till, until
- timber
- time as
- time is quick on me
- time table
- timey
- timmer
- tin
- tin-tub bass
- tinchy
- ting-a-ling
- tip
- tippy
- Tippy
- tippy
- tissick
- tissick bag
- tissly
- title
- titta, titty
- to
- toast
- tobac
- tobacco dove
- tobacco-pipe fish
- toby
- toddy
- toe a line
- togather
- together at
- toilet
- toilet lizard
- Tom Fool
- Tom James Bird, Tom Jay
- tom-tom
- tommy
- tomott
- ton-a-mun
- tone
- tongue of the ocean
- tonky
- tony
- too
- too bad
- too much
- tools
- toothache tree
- tooths
- top
- top berry
- top string
- top tree
- Topography
- torch
- toreckly
- tosevening
- tote
- tote news
- tother
- tourist tree
- tow
- town
- township
- track
- track-road
- tracking
- trans
- Transportation
- trap
- trash
- trash (1)
- trash (2)
- trash house
- travel; take a travel
- traveling: he traveling
- treat somebody up
- treatment
- tree
- tree-root
- tribbet
- trick
- trifle
- trigger
- trimps
- trinch
- trinkets
- trip down
- trone
- tropic
- trouble
- truck
- truck out
- true-true
- true: too true to be a lie
- trumpet flower
- truns and truns
- truppence hazard
- trust
- trust no mistake
- truth
- trying to make it
- tuffy
- tulip
- tumble-turds
- tune-tune
- turbot
- turbot-skin
- Turk's Island
- turn
- turn off
- turn out (1)
- turn out (2)
- turn round
- turn-head
- turning-out
- turpintime
- turtle hole
- turtle pussley
- turtle weed
- turtle-back
- twell
- twelve o' clock
- twilly
- twist conch
- two bits
- two-face-ted
- two-minded
- two-three
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three-finger
[from its leaflets; cf. DJE five-finger the climbing vine Syngonium auritum, so called because the leaves develop 3, 5, or 7 (but usually 5) subdivisions or 'fingers'] n. 1. the climbing vine Syngonium auritum. cf. SEVEN-FINGER <Exuma>
2. a variety of FIVE-FINGER (Tabebuia bahamensis): 1974 (Bullard 29). <White>
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Author: Holm and Shilling, DBE, 1982
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Comment of Kinverley Cox:
Inamae Smith a 66 year old resident of Bimini is familiar with the five fingers bush medicine. Ms. Smith says that five fingers is used to strengthen the body. She also recalls drinking five fingers as a child and giving it to her children. According to Ms. Smith five fingers leaf is boiled with water and made as a tea to build up your body from weakness. Her favorite ways to drink five fingers is by adding sweet milk or cream and sugar to the boiled five fingers and water.
Added at: 2013-09-19 04:16