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Brewer's: Jack o' the Bowl

The most famous brownie or house-spirit of Switzerland; so called from the custom of placing for him every night on the roof of the cow-house a bowl of fresh sweet cream. The contents of…

Brewer's: Jack o' the Clock

The figure which comes out to strike the hours on the bell of a clock. A contraction of Jaquemart (q.v.). King Richard. Well, but what's o'clock? Buckingham. Upon the stroke of ten. K. R.…

Brewer's: Jack Out of Office

One no longer in office. I am left out; for me nothing remains. But long I will not be Jack-out-of-office Shakespeare: 1 Henry VI., I. I. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Sixteen-string Jack

John Rann, a highwayman, noted for his foppery. He wore sixteen tags, eight at each knee. (Hanged in 1774.) “Dr. Johnson said that Gray's poetry towered above the ordinary run of verse as…

Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane

WBMidseason DebutSunday 8:00–8:30 p.m.Cast:Selma Blair, Mary Page Keller, David Moscow, Michael Rosenbaum and Azura Skye The WB's spin on Friends has four high-school students hanging out in…

Jack Kent Cooke Biography

Jack Kent CookeBorn: Oct. 25, 1912Football sole owner of NFL Washington Redskins from 1985-97; teams won 2 Super Bowls (1988,92); also owned NBA Lakers and NHL Kings in LA; built LA Forum for…

water oats

(Encyclopedia) water oats: see wild rice.

chinchilla

(Encyclopedia) chinchillachinchillachĭnchĭlˈə [key], small burrowing rodent of South America. It lives in colonies at high altitudes (up to 15,000 ft/4,270 m) in the Andes of Bolivia, Chile, and Peru…