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Brewer's: Crux Pectoralis
The cross which bishops of the Church of Rome suspend over their breast. “Crucem cum pretioso ligno vel cum reliquis Sanctorum ante pectus portare suspensum ad collum, hoc est quod vocant…Brewer's: OEil de Boeuf
(L'). A large reception-room (salle) in the palace of Versailles, lighted by round windows so called. The ceiling, decorated by Van der Meulen, contained likenesses of the children of…Brewer's: Quixote
(Don) is intended for the Duke of Lerma. (Rawdon Brown.) Don Quixote. The romance so called is a merciless satire by Cervantes on the chivalric romances of the Middle Ages, and had the…Brewer's: Log
An instrument for measuring the velocity of a ship. It is a flat piece of wood, some six inches in radius, and in the shape of a quadrant. A piece of lead is nailed to the rim to make the…Brewer's: Wick, Wicked
and in French Méche, Méchant. That the two English words and the two French words should have similar resemblances and similar meanings is a remarkable…Brewer's: Andirons
or Hand-irons a corruption of anderia, andera, andela, or andena. Ducange says, “Andena est ferrum, quo appodiantur ligna in foco, ut melius luceant, et melius comburantur.” Farther on he…Brewer's: Antipathy, of animals
According to tradition, wolves have a mortal antipathy to scillaroots; geese to the soil of Whitby; snakes to soil of Ireland; cats to dogs; all animals dislike the castoroil plant;…Brewer's: Apollo Belvidere
[Bel-ve-dear ]. A marble statue, supposed to be from the chisel of the Greek sculptor Calamis, who flourished in the fifth ante-Christian era. It represents the god holding a bow in his…Brewer's: Blanket
The wrong side of the blanket. A love-child is said to come of the wrong side of the blanket. “He grew up to be a fine waule fallow, like mony ane that comes o' the wrang side o' the…Brewer's: Nab
The fairy which offers Orpheus for food in the infernal regions a roasted ant, a flea's thigh, butterflies' brains, some sucking mites, a rainbow-tart, and other delicacies of like nature…Trending
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