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Brewer's: Tamarisk
from a Hebrew word meaning to cleanse, so called from its abstersive qualities. The Romans wreathed the brows of criminals with tamarisk. The Arabs make cakes called manna of the hardened…Brewer's: Tamerlane
(3 syl.). A corruption of Timour Lengh (Timour the Lame), one of the greatest warrior-kings that ever lived. Under him Persia became a province of Tartary. He modestly called himself Ameer…Brewer's: Care-cloth
(The). The fine linen cloth laid over the newly-married in the Catholic Church. (Anglo-Saxon, cear, large, as cear wúnd (a big wound), cear sorh (a great sorrow), etc.) Source:…Brewer's: Come and take Them
The reply of Leonidas, King of Sparta, to the messengers sent by Xerxes to Thermop'-ylae. Xerxes said, “Go, and tell those madmen to deliver up their arms.” Leonidas replied, “Go, and tell…Brewer's: Catual
Chief minister of the Zamorin or ancient sovereign of India. Begirt with high-plumed nobles, by the flood The first great minister of India stood, His name `the Catual' in India's tongue…Brewer's: Gib
(g soft). The cut of his gib. (See Jib.) To hang one's gib. To be angry, to pout. The lower lip of a horse is called its gib, and so is the beak of a male salmon. Source: Dictionary of…Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
(March 2, 1904-Sept. 24, 1991) By Borgna Brunner Related Links: Children's LiteratureAll-Time Bestselling Children's BooksMost recent Newbery Awards and complete list of earlier winners…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 15, 1805
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 14, 1805June 16, 1805June 15, 1805 Saturday June 15th 1805. This morning the men again were sent to bring in some more meat which Drewyer…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: September 21, 1804
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark September 20, 1804September 22, 1804September 21, 1804 21st of September 1804 Friday 1804, last night or reather this morng at a half past one…Brewer's: Catacomb
A subterranean place for the burial of the dead. The Persians have a city they call Comb or Coom, full of mausoleums and the sepulchres of the Persian saints. (Greek, kata-kumbe, a hollow…Trending
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