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To crush a bottle —i.e. drink one. Cf. Milton's crush the sweet poison. The idea is that of crushing the grapes. Shakespeare has also burst a bottle in the same sense (Induction of Taming…Brewer's: Crystalline
(3 syl.). The Crystalline sphere. According to Ptolemy, between the “primum mobile” and the firmament or sphere of the fixed stars comes the crystalline sphere, which oscillates or has a…Brewer's: Cyclops
One of a group of giants with only one eye, and that in the centre of their forehead, whose business it was to forge iron for Vulcan. They were probably Pelasgians, who worked in quarries…Brewer's: Cynosure
(3 syl.). The polar star; the observed of all observers. Greek for dog's tail, and applied to the constellation called Ursa Minor. As seamen guide their ships by the north star, and…Brewer's: Dagon
(Hebrew, dag On, the fish On). The idol of the Philistines; half woman and half fish. (See Atergata.) Dagon his name; sea-monster, upward man And downward fish; yet had his temple high…Brewer's: Daphne
Daughter of a river-god, loved by Apollo. She fled from the amorous god, and escaped by being changed into a laurel, thenceforth the favourite tree of the sun-god. Nay, lady, sit. If I but…Brewer's: Gehenna
(Hebrew, g hard). The place of eternal torment. Strictly speaking, it means simply the Valley of Hinnom (Ge-Hinnom), where sacrifices to Moloch were offered and where refuso of all sorts…Brewer's: Algarsife
(3 syl.). Son of Cambuscan, and brother of Cambalo, who “won Theodora to wife.” It was in the “Squire's Tale,” by Chaucer, but was never finished. (See Canace.) Call him up that left half…Brewer's: Ariel
A spirit of the air and guardian of innocence. He was enslaved to the witch Sycorax, who overtasked him; and in punishment for not doing what was beyond his power, shut him up in a pine-…Brewer's: Arimaspians
A one-eyed people of Scythia, who adorned their hair with gold. They were constantly at war with the gryphons who guarded the gold mines. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness ...…Trending
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