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Brewer's: Skirt
To sit upon one's skirt. To insult, or seek occasion of quarrel. Tarlton, the clown, told his audience the reason why he wore a jacket was that “no one might sit upon his skirt.” Sitting…Brewer's: Slate One
(To). To criticise, expose in print, show up, reprove. A scholastic term. Rebellious and idle boys are slated, that is, their names are set down on a slate to expose their offence, and…Brewer's: Walton Bridle
(The). The “gossip's or scold's bridle.” One of these bridles is preserved in the vestry of the church of Walton-on-Thames. Iron bars pass round the…Brewer's: Arzina
A river that flows into the North Sea, near Wardhus, where Sir Willoughby's three ships were frozen, and the whole crew perished of starvation. In these fell regions, in Arzina caught, And…Brewer's: Maundrel
A foolish, vapouring gossip. The Scotch say, “Haud your tongue, maundrel.” As a verb it means to babble, to prate. In some parts of Scotland the talk of persons in delirium, in sleep, and…Brewer's: Paridel
A young gentleman that travels about and seeks adventure, because he is young, rich, and at leisure. (See below.) Thee, too, my Paridel, she marked thee there, Stretched on the rack of a…Brewer's: Phædria
[wantonnese]. Handmaid of Acrasia the enchantress. She sails about Idle Lake in a gondola. Seeing Sir Guyon she ferries him across the lake to the floating island, where Cymochles attacks…Brewer's: Fisher of Souls
(The great). The devil. “I trust, young man, that neither idleness nor licentious pleasure ... the chief baits with which the great Fisher of souls conceals his hooks, are the causes of…Brewer's: Drone
(l syl.). The largest tube of a bagpipe; so called because it sounds only one continuous note. (German, drohne, verb, drohnen, to groan or drone.) A drone. An idle person who lives on the…Brewer's: Lazy Lobkin
(A). A lob (says Halliwell) is “the last person in a race.” (Somersetshire). (Welsh llob, a dolt, our “lubber.”) “A lazy lobkin, like an idle loute.” Breton: Olde Madcappes, etc. (1602…Trending
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