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Brewer's: Amrita
The elixir of immortality, made by churning the milk-sea (Hindu mythology). Sir William Jones speaks of an apple so called, because it bestows immortality on those who parta…Brewer's: Anana
The pine-apple (the Brazilian ananas). Witness thou, best Anana! thou the pride Of vegetable life. Thompson: Summer, 685, 686. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Co…Brewer's: Dead-Sea Fruit
Fair to the eye, but nauseous to the taste; full of promise, but without reality. (See Apples Of Sodom.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dead…Brewer's: Newtonian Philosophy
The astronomical system at present received, together with that of universal gravitation. So called after Sir Isaac Newton, who established the former and discovered the lat…Brewer's: Pitch
Touch pitch, and you will be defiled. “The finger that touches rougs will be red.” “Evil communications corrupt good manners” “A rotten apple injures its companions.” Sour…Brewer's: Ribston Pippin
So called from Ribston, in Yorkshire, where Sir Henry Goodricke planted three pips, sent to him from Rouen, in Normandy. Two pips died, but from the third came all the Ribst…Brewer's: Squab Pie
Pie made of squabs—i.e. young pigeons; also a pie made of mutton, apples, and onions. Cornwall squab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings. And Leicester beans and bacon, fit for …Brewer's: Tangie
The water sprite of the Orkneys; from Danish tang (sea-weed), with which it is covered. The tangie sometimes appears in a human form, and sometimes as a little apple-green h…Brewer's: Singing Tree
A tree whose leaves were so musical that every leaf sang in concert. (Arabian Nights: Story of the Sisters who Envied their Younger Sister.) (See Singing Apple.) Source: D…Brewer's: Frankum's Night
A night in June destructive to apple- and pear-trees. The tale is that one Frankum offered sacrifice in his orchard for an extra fine crop, but a blight ensued, and his tree…Trending
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