Search

Search results

Displaying 451 - 460

Brewer's: Bediver

A knight of the Round Table, and the butler of King Arthur. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BedlamBedfordshire A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…

U.S. Constitution Primer

Balancing the rights of the federal government, the states, and individuals by Shmuel Ross U.S. Constitution Quizzes The Legislative Branch (Article I) The Excutive and Judicial Branches…

Brewer's: Donzel

(Italian). A squire or young man of good birth. “He is esquire to a knight-errant, donzel to the damsels.” —Butler: Characters. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Bottle-washer

(Head ). Chief agent; the principal man employed by another; a factotum. Head waiter or butler (botteller ). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bottled…

Brewer's: Midlothian

Sir Walter Scott's Heart of Midlothian is a tale of the Porteous riot, in which are introduced the interesting incidents of Effie and Jeanie Deans. Effie is seduced while in the service of…

Brewer's: Privolvans'

The antagonists of the Subvolvans, in S. Butler's satirical poem called The Elephant in the Moon. These, silly ranting Privolyans Have every summer their campaigns, And muster like the…

Brewer's: Pudding-time

properly means just as dinner is about to begin, for our forefathers took their pudding before their meat. It also means in the nick of time. But Mars In pudding-time came to his aid.…

Brewer's: Saker

A piece of light artillery. The word is borrowed from the saker hawk. (See Falcon.) The cannon, blunderbuss, and saker, He was the inventor of and maker. Butler: Hudibras, i. 2. Source:…

Brewer's: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child

Solomon (Prov. xiii. 24) says: “He that spareth the rod hateth his son;” but Samuel Butler, in his Hudibras (pt. ii. canto 1, line 843), says: Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare…