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Brewer's: Bower
A lady's private room. (Anglo-Saxon bur, a chamber.) (To rhyme with flower.) (See Boudoir. ) “By a back staircase she slipped to her own bower.” —Bret Harte: Thankful Blossoms, part ii.…Brewer's: Bowie Knife
A long, stout knife, carried by hunters in the Western States of America. So called from Colonel James Bowie, one of the most daring characters of the States. Born in Logan, co. Kentucky.…Brewer's: Bowing
We uncover the head when we wish to salute anyone with respect; but the Jews, Turks, Siamese, etc., uncover their feet. The reason is this: With us the chief act of investiture is crowning…Brewer's: Bowling
Tom Bowling. The type of a model sailor in Smollett's Roderick Random. (To rhyme with rolling.) The Tom Bowling referred to in Dibdin's famous sea-song was Captain Thomas Dibdin, brother…Brewer's: Bowls
They who play bowls must expect to meet with rubbers. Those who touch pitch must expect to defile their fingers. Those who enter upon affairs of chance, adventure, or dangerous hazard must…Brewer's: Hexameter and Pentameter
An alternate metre; often called elegiac verse. Hexameter as described below. Pentameter verse is divided into two parts, each of which ends with an extra long syllable. The former half…Brewer's: Petticoat and Gown
The dress. When the gown was looped up, the petticoat was an important item of dress. The poppy is said to have a red petticoat and a green gown; the daffodil, a yellow petticoat and green…Brewer's: Philips
(John);author of The Splendid Shilling, wrote a georgic on Order in blank verse - a serious poem modelled upon Miltes epics. Philips, Pomona's bard, the second thou Who nobly durst, in…Brewer's: Lawn-market
(The). To go up the Lawn-market, in Scotch parlance, means to go to be hanged. Up the Lawn-market, down the West Bow, Up the lang ladder, down the short low. Schoolboy Rhyme (Scotland). “…Brewer's: Psaphon's Birds
(Psaphonis aves). Puffers, flatterers. Psaphon, in order to attract the attention of the world, reared a multitude of birds, and having taught them to pronounce his name, let them fly. To…Trending
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