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Brewer's: Dead Water
The eddy-water closing in with the ship's stern, as she passes through the water. It shifts its place, but is like taking money from one pocket and putting it into another. Source:…Brewer's: Surfeit Water
Cordial water to cure surfeits. “Water that cures surfeits. A little cold distilled poppywater is the true surfeit water.” —Locke. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Rag-water
Whisky. (Thieves? jargon.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Rags of AntisthenesRag A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y…Brewer's: Running Water
No enchantment can subsist in a living stream; if, therefore, a person can interpose a brook betwixt himself and the witches, sprites, or goblins chasing him, he is in perfect safety.…Brewer's: Seidlitz Water
Natural mineral water from a spring in the village of Seidlitz, in Bohemia. (See Seltzer.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SeiksSeian Horse A B C D E F…Brewer's: Seltzer Water
A corruption of Selters Water; so called from the Lower Selters, near Limburg (Nassau). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Semiramis of the NorthSelling the…Brewer's: Lustral Water
Water for aspersing worshippers was kept in an aspersorium, that those who entered or left the templo might dip their fingers into the water or be sprinkled by a priest. The same may be…Brewer's: Water-gall
The dark rim round the eyes after much weeping. A peculiar appearance in a rainbow which indicates more rain at hand. “Gall” is the Anglo-Saxon gealew…Brewer's: Water-hole
The big water-hole. The bed of the sea; the ocean. “We've got to the big water-hole at last ... Tis a long way across.” —Boldrewood: Robbery under…Brewer's: Water of Jealousy
(The). If a woman was known to commit adultery she was to be stoned to death, according to the Mosaic law. (Deut. xxii. 22.) If, however, the husband…Trending
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