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Brewer's: Knights of St. Crispin
Shoemakers. Crispin Crispian was a shoe maker. (See Henry V., iv. 3.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Knights of St. PatrickKnights of Malta A B C D E F…Brewer's: Knights of St. Patrick
Instituted in 1783, in honour of the patron saint of Ireland. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Knights of the BagKnights of St. Crispin A B C D E F G…Brewer's: St. Bees' College
(Cumberland), situated on the bay formed by St. Bees' Head, founded by Dr. Law, Bishop of Chester, in 1816. St. Bees' was so called from a nunnery founded here in 650, and dedicated to the…Brewer's: St. Cuthbert's Duck
The eider duck. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894St. DistaffSt. Cecilia 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 Related…Brewer's: St. George's Cross
in heraldry, is a Greek cross gules upon a field argent. The field is represented in the Union Jack by a narrow fimbriation. It is the distinguishing badge of the British navy. St. George…Brewer's: St. John Long
An illiterate quack, who professed to have discovered a liniment which had the power of distinguishing between disease and health. The body was rubbed with it, and if irritation appeared…Brewer's: St. Johnstone's Tippet
A halter; so called from Johnstone the hangman. “Sent to heaven wi' a St. Johnston's tippit about my hause.” —SirWalterScott: Old Mortality. chap. viii Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: St. Leger Sweepstakes
The St. Leger race was instituted in 1776, by Colonel St. Leger, of Park Hill, near Doncaster, but was not called the “St. Leger” till two years afterwards, when the Marquis of Rockingham'…Brewer's: St. Michael's Chair
The projecting stone lantern of a tower erected on St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall. It is said that the rock received its name from a religious house built to commemorate the apparition of…Brewer's: St. Stephen's Loaves
Stones. “Having said this, he took up one of St. Stephen's loaves, and was going to hit him with it.” —Rabelais Pantagruel, v. 8. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer…Trending
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