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Brewer's: Luz
or Luez .The indestructible bone; the nucleus of the resurrection body. “`How doth a man revive again in the world to come?' asked Hadrian; and Joshua Ben Hananiah made answer. `From luz…Brewer's: Haberdasher
from hapertas, a cloth the width of which was settled by Magna Charta. A “hapertas-er” is the seller of hapertas-erie. To match this saint there was another, As busy and perverse a brother…Brewer's: Hanging
Hanging and wiving go by destiny. “If a man is doomed to be hanged, he will never be drowned.” And “marriages are made in heaven,” we are told. If matrimony and hanging go By destny, why…Brewer's: Hermetic Powder
The sympathetic powder, supposed to possess a healing influence from a distance. The mediæval philosophers were very fond of calling books, drugs, etc., connected with alchemy and…Brewer's: Fast and Loose
(To play). To run with the hare and hold with the hounds; to blow both hot and cold; to say one thing and do another. The allusion is to a cheating game practised at fairs. A belt is…Brewer's: Fiacre
A French cab or hackney coach. So called from the Hotel de St. Fiacre, Paris, where the first station of these coaches was established by M. Sauvage, about 1650. According to Alban Butler…Brewer's: Drum Ecclesiastic
The pulpit cushion, often vigorously thumped by what are termed “rousing preachers.” When Gospel trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum…Brewer's: Ducks and Drakes
The ricocheting or rebounding of a stone thrown from the hand to skim along the surface of a pond or river. To make ducks and drakes of one's money. To throw it away as stones with which…Brewer's: Dunce
A dolt; a stupid person. The word is taken from Duns Scotus, the learned schoolman and great supporter of the immaculate conception. His followers were called Dunsers. Tyndal says, when…Brewer's: Mirror of Knighthood
(The). One of the books in Don Quixote's library, a Spanish romance at one time very popular. Butler calls Hudibras “the Mirror of Knighthood” (book i. 15). “The barber, taking another…Trending
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