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Brewer's: Ascension Day
or Holy Thursday. The day set apart by the Catholic and Anglican Church to commemorate the ascent of our Lord from earth to heaven. Formerly it was customary to beat the bounds of each…Brewer's: Birchin Lane
I must send you to Birchin Lane, i.e. whip you. The play is on birch (a rod). A suit in Birchin Lane. Birchin Lane was once famous for all sorts of apparel; references to second-hand…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Address To Edinburgh
by Robert Burns Song-Yon Wild Mossy MountainsAddress To A HaggisAddress To Edinburgh Edina! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a…Brewer's: Manumit
To set free; properly “to send from one's hand” (e manu mittere). One of the Roman ways of freeing a slave was to take him before the chief magistrate and say, “I wish this man to be free…Brewer's: Mumbo Jumbo
A bogie or bugbear in the Mandingo towns of Africa. As the Kaffirs have many wives, it not unfrequently happens that the house becomes quite unbearable. In such a case, either the husband…Black Baseball Players
Notable African-American Baseball Players Satchel Paige Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders…Brewer's: Dulcimer
(Italian dolcimello), according to Bishop (Musical Dictionary, p. 45), is “a triangular chest strung with wires, which are struck with a little rod held in each hand;” but the word “…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: Herculean Knot
A snaky complication on the rod or caduceus of Mercury, adopted by the Grecian brides as the fastening of their woollen girdles, which only the bridegroom was allowed to untie when the…Brewer's: Gregorian Tree
The gallows; so named from three successive hangmen—Gregory, sen., Gregory, jun., and Gregory Brandon. Sir William Segar, Garter Knight of Arms, granted a coat of arms to Gregory Brandon…Trending
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