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Brewer's: Abate
(2 syl.). means properly “to knock down.” (French, abattre, whence a battue, i.e., wholesale destruction of game; O.E. a beátan.) Abate, in horsemanship, is to perform well the downward…Brewer's: Abderitan
Abderi′tan A native of Abdera, a maritime city of Thrace. The Abderitans were proverbial for stupidity, hence the phrase, “You have no more mind than an Abderite.” Yet the city gave birth…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Alphonso of Castile
Alphonso of CastileI, Alphonso, live and learn, Seeing Nature go astern. Things deteriorate in kind; Lemons run to leaves and rind; Meagre crop of figs and limes; Shorter days and harder…Madison Cawein: Under Arcturus
Under ArcturusMadison CaweinI"I belt the morn with ribboned mist; With baldricked blue I gird the noon, And dusk with purple, crimson-kissed, White-buckled with the hunter's-moon."These…Brewer's: Mistletoe
Shakespeare calls it “the baleful mistletoe” (Titus Andronicus, ii. 3), in allusion to the Scandinavian story that it was with an arrow made of mistletoe that Balder was slain. (See…Brewer's: Terrier
is a dog that “takes the earth,” or unearths his prey. Dog Tray is merely an abbreviation of the same word. Terrier is also applied to the hole which foxes, badgers, rabbits, and so on,…Brewer's: Indians
American Indians. When Columbus landed at Cat Island, he thought that he had landed on one of the Indian islands, and in this belief gave the natives the name of Indians. India proper is…2000 Academy Awards
The 2000 Academy Awards were presented March 25, 2001 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.Best PictureChocolat, David Brown, Kit Golden, and Leslie Holleran, ProducersCrouching Tiger,…2008 Year in Review
Top events for the nation and the world News and Analysis News of the Nation Historic Presidential Election • Obama Assembles a Centrist Administration • Democrats Gain…August 2005 Disasters
Aug. 2, Toronto, Canada: an Air France Airbus A340, Flight 358, skidded off the runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport in heavy thunderstorms. All of the 309 aboard managed to…Trending
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