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(The). One of the three great classic races of England. The Derby and Oaks are run at Epsom, and the St. Leger at Doncaster. The Oaks, in the parish of Woodmanstone, received its name from…Brewer's: Hatteraick
(Dirk). Also called “Jans Janson.” A Dutch smuggler imprisoned with lawyer Glossin for kidnapping Henry Bertrand. During the night Glossin contrived to enter the smuggler's cell, when a…Brewer's: Herring-pond
(The). The British Channel; the Atlantic, which separates America from the British Isles; the sea between Australasia and the United Kingdom, are all so called. “He'll plague you now he's…Brewer's: High Jinks
He is at high jinks. The present use of the phrase expresses the idea of uproarious fun and jollity. “The frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of…Brewer's: Fair Trade
Smuggling. “Neither Dirk Hatteraick nor any of his sailors, all well known men in the fair trade, were again seen upon that coast.” —SirWalterScott: Guy Mannering, chap. x. Latterly the…Brewer's: Meg Merrilies
(in Sir W. Scott's Guy Mannering). This character was based on that of Jean Gordon, an inhabitant of the village of Kirk Yetholm, in the Cheviot Hills, in the middle of the eighteenth…Brewer's: Pleydell
(Mr. Paulus). An advocate in Edinburgh, formerly sheriff of Ellangowan. “Mr. Counsellor Pleydell was a lively, sharp-looking gentleman, with a professional shrewdness in his eye, and,…Brewer's: Lang Syne
(Scotch, long since). In the olden time, in days gone by. “There was muckle fighting about the place lang-syne.” —Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. xl. The song called Auld Lang Syne, usually…Trending
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