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Brewer's: Runes
The earliest alphabet in use among the Gothic tribes of Northern Europe. The characters were employed either for purposes of secrecy or for divination. Rim is Gaelic for “secret,” and…Brewer's: Plates
or Plates of Ment. Slang for feet. One of the chief sources of slang is rhyme. Thus meat rhymes with feet, and “warming my plates” is slang for warming my fect. Similarly, “Pory O'More” is…Brewer's: Letter-Gae
The precentor is called by Allen Ramsay “The Letter-gae of haly rhyme.” “Holy rhyme” means hymns or chants. “There were no sae mony hairs on the warlock's face as there's on Letter-gae's…Information Please Haiku Contest
// Cite Tributes to Seinfeld A selection of haikus from some of the editors at Information Please: How could you cancel? Hey Jerry, the jerk store called They're all out of…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Epistle To John Rankine
by Robert Burns Reply To An Announcement By J....A Poet's Welcome To His Love-B...Epistle To John Rankine Enclosing Some Poems O Rough, rude, ready-witted Rankine, The…Brewer's: Sleave
The ravelled sleave of care Shakespeare: Macbeth). The sleave is the knotted or entangled part of thread or silk, the raw edge of woven articles. Chaucer has “sleeveless words” (words like…Brewer's: Leonine Verses
properly speaking, are either hexameter verses, or alternate hexameter and pentameter verses, rhyming at the middle and end of each respective line. These fancies were common in the 12th…Brewer's: Dido
It was Porson who said he could rhyme on any subject; and being asked to rhyme upon the three Latin gerunds, gave this couplet - When Dido found Æneas would not come, She mourned in…Brewer's: Tear
(to rhyme with “snare”). To tear Christ's body. To use imprecations. The common oaths of mediaeval times were by different parts of the Lord's body, hence the preachers used to talk of “…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Woodnotes II
Woodnotes IIAs sunbeams stream through liberal space And nothing jostle or displace, So waved the pine-tree through my thought And fanned the dreams it never brought.'Whether is better, the…Trending
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