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Brewer's: Estotiland
An imaginary tract of land near the Arctic Circle in North America, said to have been discovered by John Scalvë, a Pole. The snow From cold Estotiland. Milton: Paradise Lost x. 685.…Brewer's: Meliboean; Dye
A rich purple. Meliboea, in Thessaly, was famous for the ostrum, a fish used in dyeing purple. A military vest of purple flowed, Lovelier than Meliboean. Milton: Paradise Lost, xi. 242.…Brewer's: Pharian Fields
Egypt. So called from Pharos, an island on the coast, noted for its lighthouse. “And passed from Pharian fields to Caussu land.” Milton: Psalm cxiv. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Phlegethon
A river of liquid fire in Hades. (Greek, phlego, to burn.) Fierce Phlegethon, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Phyllis
A country girl. (Virgil: Eclogues, iii. and v.) Country messes, Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses. Milton: L'Allegro. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Played Out
Out of date; no longer in vogue; exhausted. “Valentines, I suppose, are played one, said Milton.” —Truth: Queer Story Feb. 18, 1886. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Knee Tribute
Adoration or reverence, by prostration or bending the knee. Coming to receive from us Knee-tribute yet unpaid, prostration vile Milton Paradise Lost, v P82 Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Rake
A libertine. A contraction of rakehell, used by Milton and others. And far away amid their rakehell bands They speed a lady left all succourless. Francis Quarles. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Satan
in Hebrew, means enemy. “To whom the Arch-enemy (And hence in heaven called Satan).” Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. i. 81, 82. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Spenser
(Edmund), called by Milton “the sage and serious Spenser.” Ben Jonson, in a letter to Drummond, states that the poet “died for lake of bread.” (1553-1599.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Trending
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