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Brewer's: Cato
He is a Cato. A man of simple life, severe morals, self-denying habits, strict justice, brusque manners, blunt of speech, and of undoubted patriotism, like the Roman censor of that name…Brewer's: Food
Sir Walter Scott remarks that live cattle go by Saxon names, and slain meat by Norman-French, a standing evidence that the Normans were the lords who ate the meat, and the Saxons the serfs…Brewer's: Mother
Mother and Head of all Churches. So is St. John Lateran of Rome called. It occupies the site of the splendid palace of Plantius Lateranus, which escheated to the Crown from treason, and…Brewer's: Hamilton
The reek of Mr. Patrick Hamilton has infected as many as it did blow upon, i.e. Patrick Hamilton was burnt to death by Cardinal Beaton, and the horror of the deed contributed not a little…Brewer's: Family
A person of family. One of aristocratic birth. The Latin gens. “Family will take a person anywhere.” - Warner: Little Journey in the World, chap. iv. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Temper
To make trim. The Italians say, temperare la lira, to tune the lyre: temperare una penna, to mend a pen; temperáre l'oriuôlo, to wind up the clock. In Latin, temperare calamum is “to mend…Brewer's: Brutus
(Marcus). Cæsar's friend, joined the conspirators to murder him, because he made himself a king. And thou, unhappy Brutus, kind of heart, Whose steady arm, by awful virtue urged, Lifted…Brewer's: Charity
Charity begins at home. “Let them learn first to show piety at home” (1 Tim. v. 4 and 8). Cold as charity. Than which what's colder to him who gives and him who takes? Source:…Brewer's: Children
The children in the wood. The master of Wayland Hall, Norfolk, on his deathbed left a little son, three years old, and a still younger daughter, named Jane, to the care of his wife's…Brewer's: Customer
A man or acquaintance. A rum customer is one better left alone, as he is likely to show fight if interfered with. A shop term. ( See Card.) “Here be many of her old customers.”…Trending
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