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Brewer's: Heroic Verse
That verse in which epic poetry is generally written. In Greek and Latin it is hexameter verse, in English it is ten-syllable iambic verse, either in rhymes or not; in Italian it is the…Brewer's: Age of Animals
An old Celtic rhyme, put into modern English, says: Thrice the age of a dog is that of a horse; Thrice the age of a horse is that of a man; Thrice the age of a man is that of a deer;…Brewer's: Dodman
or Doddiman. A snail. A word still common in Norfolk; but Fairfax, in his Bulk and Selvedge (1674), speaks of “a snayl or dodman.” Doddiman, doddiman, put out your horn, Here comes a thief…Brewer's: Chriss-cross Row
(row to rhyme with low). The alphabet in a horn-book, which had a cross at the beginning and end. Philosophy is all the go, And science quite the fashion; Our grandams learnt the Chriss-…Brewer's: Bow-hand
The left hand; the hand which holds the bow. (This bow rhymes with flow.) To be too much of the bow-hand. To fail in a design; not be sufficiently dexterous. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Bow-street Runners
Detectives who scoured the country to find criminals, before the introduction of the police force. Bow Street, near Covent Garden, London, is where the principal police-court stands. (This…Brewer's: Bower of Bliss
in Wandering Island, the enchanted residence of Acrasia, destroyed by Sir Guyon. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii.) (“Bower” to rhyme with flower.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Bowyer God
The same as the “archer god,” meaning Cupid. (“Bower” to rhyme with grower. ) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BoxBowse A B C D E F G H I J K L M…Brewer's: Amphion
is said to have built Thebes by the music of his lute, which was so melodious that the stones danced into walls and houses of their own accord. Tennyson has a rhyming jeu d'esprit.…Brewer's: Cutler's Poetry
Mere jingles or rhymes. Knives had, at one time, a distich inscribed on the blade by means of aqua fortis. Whose posy was For all the world like cutler's poetry Upon a kuife. Shakespeare…Trending
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