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Brewer's: Hayward
A keeper of the cattle or common herd of a village or parish. The word hay means “hedge,” and this herdsman was so called because he had “ward” of the “hedges” also. (Anglo-Saxon, heg, hay…Brewer's: Limb
To tear limb from Warburton. Lymm cum Warburton forms one rectory in Cheshire. The play is on limb and Lymm. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Limb of the…Brewer's: Cock of the North
The Duke of Gordon. So called on a monument erected to his honour at Fochabers, in Aberdeenshire. (Died 1836.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Cock of the…Brewer's: Cock up your Head
[foot, etc.]. Lift up, turn up your head or foot. The allusion is to cocking hay, i.e. lifting it into small heaps or into the haycart. (See Cock Of Hay) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Sing Out
To cry or squall from chastisement. To sing small. To cease boasting and assume a lower tone. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Sing-su-haySing Old Rose A B…Brewer's: Singapores
(3 syl.), in Stock-Exchange phraseology, means, “British Indian Extension Telegraph Stock.” (See Stock-Exchange Slang.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Hearing of the Womens Suffrage Association (1892) - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Address of Mrs. Lucy Stone. Address of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The Solitude of Self Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, addressed…Women's Suffrage: The Averted Triumph
by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler How the Woman Suffrage Movement BeganThat Adjective Male 1866 The Averted Triumph 1848-1860It was not until 1848 that the compact, made…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 24, 1804
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 23, 1804June 25, 1804June 24, 1804 Sunday June 24th set out at 1/2 after six continuing the course on the Lard. side N. 80 E 1/4 of a mile…Brewer's: Look Before You Leap
Consider well before you act. “Melius est cavere semper, quam patiri semel.” And look before you ere you leap, For, as you sow, you're like to reap. Butler: Hudibras, canto ii. part ii.…Trending
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