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Brewer's: Soil the Milk before Using It
Yorkshire for “Sile the milk, etc.” —i.e. strain it, or skim it. A sile is a sieve or strainer. “Take a handeful of sauge, and stampe it, and temper it with hate ale, and sythene syle it…Brewer's: Ambassador
a practical joke played on greenhorns aboard ship. A tub full of water is placed between two stools, and the whole being covered with a green cloth, a sailor sits on each stool, to keep…Brewer's: Mantel-piece
(A). A shelf over a fire-place, originally used for drying clothes. “Around the spacious cupola, over the Italian fire-places, is a ledge to which are affixed pegs, on which postillions…Brewer's: Linsey-woolsy Million (The).
The great unwashed. The artisan class, supposed to dress in linsey-woolsy. “Broad cloth” being for the gentry. Truth needs not, John, the eloquence of oaths: Not more than a decent suit of…Brewer's: Diaper
A sort of cloth, a corruption of D'Ypres, where it is largely manufactured. Similarly we have calico from Calicut; nankeen from Nankin; worsted from Worsted, in Norfolk; and half a score…Brewer's: Kendal Green
Green cloth for foresters; so called from Kendal, Westmoreland, famous at one time for this manufacture. Kendal green was the livery of Robin Hood and his followers. In Rymer's Faedera (ii…Brewer's: King's Mess
(The). An extra mess of rice boiled with milk- or of almonds, peas, or other pulse- given to the monks of Melrose Abbey by Robert [Bruce], the feast to be held on January 10th, and 100…Brewer's: Field of the Forty Footsteps
At the back of the British Museum, once called Southampton Fields. The tradition is that two brothers, in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, took different sides and engaged each other in…Daniel: 5
Daniel Chapter 5 1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. 2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to…John: 20
John Chapter 20 1 The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre. 2 Then she runneth, and…Trending
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