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Brewer's: Stone Jug
Either a stone jar or a prison. The Greek word (kordmos) means either an earthen jar or a prison, as in (chalkeo en keramo), in a brazen prison. When Venus complained to the immortals that…Brewer's: Stone Soup
or St. Bernard's Soup. A beggar asked alms at a lordly mansion, but was told by the servants they had nothing to give him. “Sorry for it,” said the man, “but will you let me boil a little…Brewer's: Stone Still
Perfectly still; with no more motion than a stone. “I will not struggle; I will stand stone still.” Shakespeare: King John, iv. 1. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Stone of Stumbling
This was much more significant among the Jews than it is with ourselves. One of the Pharisaic sects, called Nikfi or “Dashers,” used to walk abroad without lifting their feet from the…Brewer's: Stone of Tongues
This was a stone given to Otnit, King of Lombardy, by his father dwarf Elberich, and had the virtue, when put into a person's mouth, of enabling him to speak perfectly any foreign language…Brewer's: Tanist Stone
A monolith erected by the Celts at a coronation. We read in the Book of Judges (ix. 6) of Abimelech, that a “pillar was erected in Shechem” when he was made king; and (2 Kings xi. 14) it…Brewer's: Through-stone
(A). A flat gravestone, a stone coffin or sarcophagus, also a bond stone which extends over the entire thickness of a wall. In architecture, called “Perpent” or “Perpend Stones” or “…Brewer's: Trevethy Stone
St. Clear, Cornwall. A cromlech. Trevédi, in British, means a place of graves. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Tria Juncta in UnoTreves A B C D E F G…Brewer's: Rolling Stone
A rolling stone gathers no moss. Greek: (Erasmus: Proverbs; Assiduitas.) Latin: Saxum volutum non obducitur musco (or Saxum volubile etc.) Planta quae saepius transfertus non coalescit. (…Brewer's: Sarsen Stones
The “Druidical” sandstones of Wiltshire and Berkshire are so called. The early Christian Saxons used the word Saresyn as a synonym of pagan or heathen, and as these stones were popularly…Trending
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