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Brewer's: Hermit
(The English.) Roger Crab. He subsisted at the expense of three farthings a week, or 3s. 3d. per annum. His food consisted of bran, herbs, roots, dock-leaves, mallows, and grass. Crab died…Brewer's: Cozen
To cheat. (Armoric, Couczyein; Russian, kosnodei; Arabic, gausa; Ethiopic, chasawa; our chouse.) “I think it no sin To cozen him that would unjustly win.” Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends…Poems: Rhapsody on a Windy Night
by T. S. Eliot PreludesMorning at the WindowRhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Disolve the…Brewer's: Cancer
(the Crab) appears when the sun has reached his highest northern limit, and begins to go backward towards the south; but, like a crab, the return is sideways (June 21st to July 23rd).…Brewer's: Catch
To lie upon the catch. To lie in wait “Quid me captas?” “They sent certain of the Pharisees ... to catch Him in His words.” —Mark xii. Here the Greek word is, to take by hunting. They…Brewer's: Catch a Tartar
The biter bit. Grose says an Irish soldier in the Imperial service, in a battle against the Turks, shouted to his comrade that he had caught a Tartar. “Bring him along, then,” said his…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 26, 1806
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 25, 1806March 27, 1806March 26, 1806 Wednesday March 26th 1806. The wind blew so hard this morning that we delayed untill 8 A.M. we gave a…Brewer's: Crack
as a crack man, a first-rate fellow; a crack hand at cards, a first-rate player; a crack article, an excellent one, i.e. an article cracked up or boasted about. This is the Latin crepo, to…Brewer's: Zodiac
An imaginary belt or zone in the heavens, extending about eight degrees each side of the ecliptic. Signs of the Zodiac. The zodiac is divided into twelve equal parts, proceeding from west…Home Again
Home AgainJuly had come, and haying begun; the little gardens were doing finely and the long summer days were full of pleasant hours. The house stood open from morning till night, and the…Trending
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