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The Cat in the Hat is back on stage and in a national memorial by David Johnson Related Links Dr. Seuss BiographyDr. Seuss QuizReview: How the Grinch Stole Christmas Random House Dr. Seuss Site…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, June 30, 1805
Day 748 Day 750 Lewis, June 30, 1805 Sunday June 30th 1805. We had a heavy dew this morning which is a remarkable event. Fraizer and Whitehouse still continue their opperation of sewing…Brewer's: Gudgeon
Gaping for gudgeons. Looking out for things extremely improbable. As a gudgeon is a bait to deceive fish, it means a lie, a deception. To swallow a gudgeon. To be bamboozled with a most…Brewer's: Barnacle
The Solan goose. The strange tales of this creature have arisen from a tissue of blunders. The Latin pernacula is a “small limpet,” and bernacula (Portuguese, bernaca; French, barnache) is…Brewer's: Basilisk
The king of serpents (Greek, basileus, a king), supposed to have the power of “looking any one dead on whom it fixed its eyes.” Hence Dryden makes Clytus say to Alexander, “Nay, frown not…Brewer's: Alnaschar Dream (An)
Counting your chickens before they are hatched. Alnaschar, the barber's fifth brother, invested all his money in a basket of glass-ware, on which he was to make a certain profit. The…Brewer's: Eagle-stones
or Aetites Yellow clay ironstones supposed to have sanative and magical virtues. They are so called because they are found in eagles' nests. Epiphanius says, “In the interior of Scythia…Brewer's: Easter Eggs
or Pasch eggs, are symbolical of creation, or the re-creation of spring. The practice of presenting eggs to our friends at Easter is Magian or Persian, and bears allusion to the mundane…Brewer's: Cockatrice
(3 syl.). A monster with the wings of a fowl, tail of a dragon and head of a cock. So called because it was said to be produced from a cock's egg hatched by a serpent. According to legend…Brewer's: Skin
To sell the skin before you have caught the bear. To count of your chickens before they are hatched. In the South Sea mania (1720), dealing in bear-skins was a great stock-jobbing item,…Trending
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