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Brewer's: Ward Money, Ward-penny
or Wardage. Money paid for watch and ward. (Domesday.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Warden-pieWard A B C D E F…Brewer's: Mince
(French). A bank-note. The assignats of the first republic were so called, because the paper on which they were printed was exceedingly thin. (Dictionnaire du Bas-Langage, ii. 139.)…Intermediate-Level Science Projects: What Materials Make the Best Crystals?
What Materials Make the Best Crystals?Intermediate-Level Science ProjectsChemistryCan You Be a Human Battery?What Materials Make the Best Crystals? Growing crystals isn't difficult, and it makes a…Brewer's: Au Grand Sérieux
(French) In sober earnest. “We are not asked to take these narratives au grand sérieux. They are rather sketches of the past, illustrating what could have been done, and may be done again…Summer Sizzlers | July 2000
by Beth Rowen Loser American Pie's Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari (perhaps better known as Lester Burnham's object of obsession in American Beauty) leave behind high-school hijinks and graduate to…Brewer's: Bertolde
[Bar-told ]. Imperturbable as Bertolde, i.e. not to be taken by surprise, thrown off your guard, or disconcerted at anything. Bertolde is the hero of a little jeu d'esprit in Italian prose…Brewer's: Lamb's Conduit Street
(London). Stow says, “One William Lamb, citizen and clothworker, born at Sutton Valence, Kent, did found near unto Oldbourne a faire conduit and standard; from this conduit, water clear as…Brewer's: Jenny Wren
the sweetheart of Robin Redbreast. Robin promised Jenny, if she would be his wife, she should `feed on cherry-pie and drink currant-wine'; and he says: `Ill dress you like a goldfinch, Or…Brewer's: Humbug
A correspondent in Notes and Queries (March 5th, 1892) suggests as the fons et origo of this word the Italian Uomo bugiardo, a lying man. To hum used to signify “to applaud,” “to pretend…Brewer's: Capfull of Wind
Olaus Magnus tells us that Eric, King of Sweden, was so familiar with evil spirits that what way soever he turned his cap the wind would blow, and for this he was called Windy Cap. The…Trending
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