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Brewer's: Selene
The moon-goddess; sometimes, but improperly, called Diana, as Diana is always called the chaste huntress; but Selene had fifty daughters by Endymion, and several by Zeus, one of whom was…Brewer's: Ugly
means hag-like. Mr. Dyer derives it from ouph-lie, like an ough or goblin. The Welsh hagr, ugly, would rather point to hag-lie, like a hag; but we need only go to the Old English verb ugge…Brewer's: War of the Meal-sacks
After the battle of Beder, Abu Sofian summoned two hundred fleet horsemen, each with a sack of meal at his saddle-bow (the scanty provision of an Arab…Brewer's: Gospel according to ...
The chief teaching of [so-and-so]. “The Gospel according to Mammon” is the making and collecting of money. “The Gospel according to Sir Pertinax Mac Sycophant,” is bowing and cringing to…Brewer's: Bent
Inclination; talent for something. Out of my bent, not in my way, not in the range of my talent. Bent on it, inclined to it. As a thing bent is inclined, so a bent is an inclination or…Brewer's: Cupid
The god of love, and son of Venus. According to fable he wets with blood the grindstone on which he sharpens his arrows. Ferus et Cupido Semper ardentes acuens sagittas.' Horace: 2 Odes,…Brewer's: Cupid's Golden Arrow
Virtuous love. “Cupid's leaden arrow,” sensual passion. Deque sagittifera promsit duo tela pharetra Diversorum operum; fugat hoc, facit illud amorem. Quod facit auratum est, et cuspide…Brewer's: Immortal Three
(The). Homer, Dante, and Milton. Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn; The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty; in both…Brewer's: Diotrephes
One who loves to have the pre-eminence among others. (3 John 9.) “Neither a desperate Judas, like the prelate Sharpe [archbishop of St. Andrew's who was murdered], that's gone to his place…Brewer's: Almond Tree
Grey hairs. The Preacher thus describes old age: “In the day when the keepers of the house (the hands) shall tremble, and the strong men (the legs) bow themselves, and the grinders (the…Trending
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