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The Devil's Dictionary: Lap
by Ambrose Bierce LAOCOONLASTLAP -n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural…Brewer's: Cat-lap
Milk or weak tea, only fit for the cat to lap. “A more accomplished old woman never drank cat-lap.” —Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Lapping Water
When Gideon's army was too numerous, the men were taken to a stream to drink, and 300 of them lapped water with their tongue; all the rest supped it up (Judges. vii. 4-7). All carnivorous…Viet Minh
(Encyclopedia) Viet MinhViet Minhvēĕtˈ mĭn [key], officially Viet Nam Doc Lap Dong Minh [League for the Independence of Vietnam], a coalition of Communist and nationalist groups that opposed the…Maltese
(Encyclopedia) MalteseMaltesemôltēzˈ [key], breed of very small toy dog of obscure origin that was widely popular in Europe by the beginning of the 19th cent. It stands about 5 in. (12.7 cm) high at…Aesop's Fables: The Ass and the Lap-Dog
by Aesop The Fox and the MonkeyThe Fir-Tree and the BrambleThe Ass and the Lap-Dog There was once a man who had an Ass and a Lap-dog. The Ass was housed in the stable with plenty of oats…Earnhardt, Dale
(Encyclopedia) Earnhardt, Dale (Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr.)Earnhardt, Daleûrnˈhärt [key], 1951–2001, American auto racing driver widely regarded as stock car racing's greatest star, b. Kannapolis, N.C…dulcimer
(Encyclopedia) dulcimerdulcimerdŭlˈsĭmər [key], stringed musical instrument. It is a wooden box with strings stretched over it that are struck with small mallets. The number of strings may vary. The…Biographies: Selected Biographies A to Z: L
Selected Biographies A to Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z More Biographies Don't see the biography you're looking for? Search 30,000+…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Epitaph On A Lap-Dog
by Robert Burns Lines On John M'Murdo, ESQ.Epigrams Against The Earl Of GallowayEpitaph On A Lap-Dog Named Echo In wood and wild, ye warbling throng, Your heavy loss…Trending
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