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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: 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: Vere Adeptus
One admitted to the fraternity of the Rosicrucians. In Rosycrucian lore as learned As he the Vere-adeptus earned. Butler: Hudibras. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Sleight of Hand
is artifice by the hand. (Icelandic, slædgh, German, schlich, cunning or trick.) And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand. Butler Hudibras, pt. ii. c. 3…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…Brewer's: Stentorophonic Voice
A voice proceeding from a speaking-trumpet or stentorophonic tube, such as Sir Samuel Morelard invented to be used at sea. I heard a formidable noise Loud as the stentrophonic voice, That…Brewer's: Wyoming
(3 syl.). In 1778 a force of British provincials and Indians, led by Colonel Butler, drove the settlers out of the valley, and Queen Esther tomahawked…Brewer's: Subvolvans
or Subvolvani. The antagonists of the Privolvans in Samuel Butler's satirical poem called The Elephant in the Moon. The gallant Subvolvani rally, And from their trenches make a sally.…1999-2000 College Football Pioneer League Final Standings
Pioneer League Conference Overall W L PF PA W L PF PA Dayton 4 0 137 31 6 4 325 210 Valparaiso 3 1 89 78 9 2…Trending
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