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Brewer's: Iphigenia
Iphigeni'a Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Her father having offended Artemis (Diana) by killing her favourite stag, vowed to sacrifice to the angry goddess the most beautiful…Brewer's: Josse
Vous étes orfèvrs, Monsieur Jossc (You are a jeweller, Mr. Josse). Nothing like leather; great is Diana of the Ephesians; your advice is not disinterested. In Molière's comedy of L'Amour…Brewer's: Bun
A small cake. (Irish, boinneog, Scotch, bannock.) In regard to “hot cross buns” on Good Friday, it may be stated that the Greeks offered to Apollo, Diana, Hecate, and the Moon, cakes with…Brewer's: Lewkner's Lane
Now called “Charles Street,” Drury Lane, London, always noted for ladies of the pavement. The flymphs of chaste Diana's train, The same with those of Lewkner's Lane. Butler: Hudibras, part…Brewer's: Grotto of Ephesus
(The). The test of chastity. E. Bulwer-Lytton, in his Tales of Miletus (iii.), tells us that near the statue of Diana is a grotto, and if, when a woman enters it, she is not chaste,…Brewer's: Chariot of the Gods
So the Greeks called Sierra Leone, in Africa, a ridge of mountains of great height. A sierra means a saw, and is applied to a ridge of peaked mountains. Her palmy forests, mingling with…Brewer's: Copper
(A). A policeman. Said to be so called from the copper badge which Fernando Wood, of New York, appointed them to wear; but more likely a variant of “cop” (q.v.). “There were cries of `…Brewer's: Crescent
Tradition says that “Philip, the father of Alexander, meeting with great difficulties in the siege of Byzantium, set the workmen to undermine the walls, but a crescent moon discovered the…Brewer's: Bodies
Compound bodies, in chemical phraseology, mean those which have two or more simple bodies or elements in their composition, as water. Simple bodies, in chemical phraseology, mean the…Brewer's: Queen of Heaven
with the ancient Phoenicians, was Astarte; Greeks, Hera; Romans, Juno; Trivia, Hecate, Diana, the Egyptian Isis, etc., were all so called; but with the Roman Catholics it is the Virgin…Trending
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