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Brewer's: Humble Cow
(A) A cow without horns. “`That,' said John with a broad grin, was Grizzel chasing the humble cow out of the close.” —SirW.Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. ix. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Cramp-ring
To scour the crampring. To be put into fetters; to be imprisoned. The allusion is obvious. “There's no muckle hazard o' scouring the cramp-ring.” —Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xxiii…Brewer's: Dominie Sampson
A village schoolmaster and scholar, poor as a church mouse, and modest an a girl. He cites Latin like a porcus literarum, and exclaims “Prodigious!” (Scott: Guy Mannering.) (See Stilling…Brewer's: Dandie Dinmont
A jovial, true-hearted store-farmer, in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering. Also a hardy hairy short-legged terrier. “From this dog descended Davidson of Hyndlee's breed, the original Dandie…Brewer's: Sampson
A dominie Sampson. A humble pedantic scholar, awkward, irascible, and very old-fashioned. The character occurs in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Escapade
(3 syl.). French. Means literally an escape [from restraint]; hence a spree, lark, or prank. (Spanish, escapar, escapada.) “His second escapade was made for the purpose of visiting the…Brewer's: Nab-man
A sheriff's officer. (See Nab.) “Old Dornton has sent the nabman after him at last.” —Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering (dramatised by Terry, ii. 3). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…Chemistry: Gay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad News
Gay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad NewsChemistryGas LawsBoyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallCharles's Law: The Incredible Imploding CanGay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad…Punctuation: The Semicolon: Love Child of the Comma and the Period
The Semicolon: Love Child of the Comma and the PeriodPunctuationPunctuation MattersPeriod, Question Mark, Exclamation Mark: The End of the LineThe Comma: A Major PlayerThe Semicolon: Love Child of…Pokémon in America
Gotta change it all? by Holly Hartman [ Take the Pokémon Quiz! ] Half the children in Japan follow every episode of the top-rated Pokémon, as week after week ten-year-old…Trending
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