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Brewer's: Paean
The physician of the celestial gods; the deliverer from any evil or calamity. (Greek, pauo, to make to cease.) Paean A hymn to Apollo, and applied to the god himself. We are told in Dr…Consecutive Game Streaks
Consecutive Game StreaksRegular season games through 2004.Games PlayedGm Dates of Streak2632 Cal Ripken Jr., Bal 5/30/82 to 9/19/982130 Lou Gehrig, NY 6/1/25 to 4/30/391307 Everett Scott,…Holiday Movie Preview, 2000 - Part 3
What Women Want, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and All the Pretty Horses by Beth Rowen What Women Want Opens December 15 Prerelease buzz has blockbuster written all over this film…Brewer's: Olympian Jove
or rather Zeus (1 syl.) A statue by Phidias, and reckoned one of the “Seven Wonders of the World.” Pausanias (vii. 2) says when the sculptor placed it in the temple at Elis, he prayed the…Brewer's: Harpies
(2 syl.). Vultures with the head and breasts of a woman, very fierce and loathsome, living in an atmosphere of filth and stench, and contaminating everything which they came near. Homer…Brewer's: Hector
Eldest son of Priam, the noblest and most magnanimous of all the chieftains in Homer's Iliad (a Greek epic). After holding out for ten years, he was slain by Achilles, who lashed him to…Brewer's: Helen
The type of female beauty, more especially in those who have reached womanhood. Daughter of Zeus and Leda, and wife of Menelaos, King of Sparta. “She moves a goddess and she looks a queen…Brewer's: Hexameter Verse
A line of poetry consisting of six measures, the fifth being a dactyl and the sixth either a spondee or a trochee. The other four may be either dactyls or spondees. Homer's two epic poems…Brewer's: Sardonic Smile, Grin, or Laughter
A smile of contempt: so used by Homer. “The Sardonic or Sardinian laugh. A laugh caused, it was supposed, by a plant growing in Sardinia, of which they who ate died laughing.” —Trench:…Brewer's: Spinster
An unmarried woman. The fleece which was brought home by the Anglo-Saxons in summer, was spun into clothing by the female part of each family during the winter. King Edward the Elder…Trending
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