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Brewer's: Amram's Son

Moses. (Exodus vi. 20.) As when the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, Waved round the coast. Milton: Paradise Lost, i. 338–40. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…

Brewer's: Arioch

One of the fallen angels cast out of heaven. The word means a fierce lion. (MIlton: Paradise Lost, vi. 371.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Armoury

The place where armour is kept. But the sword Of Michael from the armoury of God Was given him. Milton: Paradise Lost , vi. 320. See also vii. 200. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: Danaw

The Danube (German). To pass Rhone or the Danaw. Milton: Paradise Lost, book i. 353. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894DanceDanaos A B C D E F G H I J…

Brewer's: Lycidas

The name under which Milton celebrates the untimely death of Edward King, Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge, who was drowned in his passage from Chester to Ireland, August 10th, 1637. He…

Brewer's: Magnet

The loadstone; so called from Magnesia, in Lydia, where the ore was said to abound. The Greeks called it magnes. Milton uses the adjective for the substantive in the line “As the magnetic…

Brewer's: Neæera

Any sweetheart or lady love. She is mentioned by Horace, Virgil, and Tibullus. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neæra's hair. Milton: Lycidas. Source:…

Brewer's: Ruminate

(3 syl.). To think, to meditate upon some subject; properly, “to chew the cud” (Latin, rumino). “To chew the cud of sweet and bitter fancy.” Milton. “On a flowery bank he chews the cud…

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: Pellean Conqueror

Alexander the Great, born at Pella, in Macedonia. “Remember that Pellean conqueror.” Milton: Paradise Regained, ii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…