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Brewer's: John-a-Dreams
A stupid, dreamy fellow, always in a brown study and half asleep. Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing.…Brewer's: Lickspittle
(A). A servile toady. His heart too great, though fortune little, To lick a rascal statesman's spittle. Swift. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894LictorsLicks…Brewer's: Howleglass
(2 syl.). A clever rascal, the hero of an old German romance by Thomas Murner, popular in the eighteenth century. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Hrimfax'…Brewer's: Overreach
(Sir Giles). The counterpart of Sir Giles Mompesson, a noted usurer outlawed for his misdeeds. He is an unserupulous, grasping, proud, hard-hearted rascal in A New Way to Pay Old Debts, by…Candide: What Happened to Cunegund, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew
Cunegund's Story In What Distress Candide, Cun... What Happened to Cunegund, Candide, the Grand Inquisitor, and the Jew This same Issachar was the most choleric little Hebrew that…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, April 20, 1806
Day 1338 Day 1340 Lewis, April 20, 1806 Sunday April 20th 1806. some frost this morning. The Enesher an Skillutes are much better clad than they were last fall, there men have generally…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Clark, September 25, 1804
Day 300 Day 302 Clark, September 25, 1804 25th Septr a fair morning the wind from the S. E. all well, raised a Flag Staff & made a orning or Shade on a Sand bar in the mouth of Teton…Brewer's: Bicorn
An hypothetical beast supposed to devour all men under petticoat government. It is described as very fat and well liking. There was another beast called Chichevache, which fed on obedient…Brewer's: Dragon of Wantley
(i.e. Warncliff, in Yorkshire). A monster slain by More, of More Hall, who procured a suit of armour studded with spikes; and, proceeding to the well where the dragon had his lair, kicked…Brewer's: Dodger
A “knowing fellow.” One who knows all the tricks and ways of London life, and profits by such knowledge. Dodger The Artful Dodger. John Dawkins, a young thief, up to every artifice,…Trending
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