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Brewer's: Gouk
or Gowk. In the Teutonic the word gauch means fool; whence the Anglo-Saxon geac, a cuckoo, and the Scotch goke or gouk. Hunting the gowk [fool], is making one an April fool. (See April.)…Brewer's: Delia
of Pope's line, “Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage,” was Lady Deloraine, who married W. Windam of Carsham, and died 1744. The person said to have been poisoned was Miss Mackenzie…Brewer's: King's Keys
The crow-bars, hatchets, and hammers used by sheriffs' officers to force doors and locks. (Law phrase.) “The door, framed to withstand attacks from exciseman, constables, and other…1956 Men's and Team Olympic Rowing Medalists
Event Single Sculls Vyacheslav Ivanov, URS 8:02.5 Stuart Mackenzie, AUS 8:07.7 John Kelly, Jr., USA 8:11.8 Double Sculls USSR 7:24.0 USA 7:32…Brewer's: Tantalos
(Latin, Tantalus), according to fable, is punished in the infernal regions by intolerable thirst. To make his punishment the more severe, he is plunged up to his chin in a river, but…goat
(Encyclopedia) goat, ruminant mammal with hollow horns and coarse hair belonging to the genus Capra of the cattle family and closely related to the sheep. True wild goats, all of Old World origin,…Wells, H. G.
(Encyclopedia) Wells, H. G. (Herbert George Wells), 1866–1946, English author. Although he is probably best remembered for his works of science fiction, he was also an imaginative social thinker,…Kahn, Louis Isadore
(Encyclopedia) Kahn, Louis IsadoreKahn, Louis Isadoreĭzˈədôrˌ [key]Kahn, Louis Isadore, kän [key], 1901–74, American architect, b. Estonia. He and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1905, and he…American Fur Company
(Encyclopedia) American Fur Company, chartered by John Jacob Astor (1763–1848) in 1808 to compete with the great fur-trading companies in Canada—the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company.…Verdi, Giuseppe
(Encyclopedia) Verdi, GiuseppeVerdi, Giuseppevârˈdē, Ital. j&oomacr;zĕpˈpā vĕrˈdē [key], 1813–1901, foremost Italian composer of opera, b. Le Roncole. Verdi, the son of an innkeeper, showed a…Trending
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