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The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, September 20, 1805
Day 900 Day 902 Clark, September 20, 1805 Wednesday 20th September 1805 I Set out early and proceeded on through a Countrey as ruged as usial passed over a low mountain into the forks of a…Sarah Winnemucca Biography
Sarah WinnemuccaNorthern Paiute lecturer, educator, and writerBorn: c. 1844Birthplace: near Humboldt Sink, western Nevada Sarah Winnemucca, whose Indian name was Thocmetony, or “Shell Flower…Brewer's: Metalogicus
by John of Salisbury, the object of which is to expose the absurdity and injurious effects of “wrangling,” or dialectics and metaphysics. He says, “Prattling and quibbling the masters…Brewer's: Scotch
The people or language of Scotland. Highland Scotch. Scottish Gaelic. Lowland Scotch. The English dialect spoken in the lowlands of Scotland. Broad Scotch. The official language of…Brewer's: Grand Lama
The object of worship in Thibet and Mongolia. The worship in Thibet and Mongolia. The word lama in the Tangutanese dialect means “mother of souls.” It is the representative of the…Brewer's: Brogue
(1 syl.) properly means the Irish brog, or shoe of rough hide. The application of brog to the dialect or manner of speaking is similar to that of buskin to tragedy and sock to comedy. “And…Brewer's: Creole
(2 syl.). A descendant of white people born in Mexico, South America, and the West Indies. (Spanish criado, a servant; diminutive criadillo, contracted into creollo, creole.) (See Mulatto…Brewer's: Romanesque
(3 syl.). In painting. Fanciful and romantic rather than true to nature. In architecture. Byzantine, Lombard, Saxon, and, indeed, all the debased Roman styles, between the time of…Brewer's: Romany
Gipsy language, the speech of the Roma or Zincali. This has nothing to do with Rome. “A learned Sclavonian ... said of Rommany, that he found it interesting to be able to study a Hindu…Brewer's: Patois
(2 syl.). Dialectic peculiarity, provincialism. Asinius Pollio noticed something of the kind in Livy, which he called patavinitas, from Patavium, Livy's birth-town. Source: Dictionary of…Trending
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