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Brewer's: Rock Crystal
The specimens which enclose hair-like substances are called Thetis's hair-stone, Venus's hair-stone, Venus's pencils, Cupid's net, Cupid's arrows, etc. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Rock Day
The day after Twelfthday, when, the Christmas holidays being over, women returned to their rock or distaff. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RococoRock…Brewer's: Plutonic Rocks
Granites, and certain porphyries, supposed to be of igneous, but not of volcanic, origin. So called by Lyell from Pluto, the principle of elemental fire. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Silurian Rocks
A name given by Sir R. Murchison to what miners call gray-wacke, and Werner termed transition rocks. Sir Roderick called them Silurian because it was in the region of the ancient Silures…Brewer's: Bed-rock
American slang for one's last shilling. A miner's term, called in England the “stone-head,” and in America, the “Bed-rock,” the hard basis rock. When miners get to this bed the mine is…Brewer's: Aqueous Rocks
Rocks produced by the agency of water, such as bedded limestones, sandstones, and clays; in short, all the geological rocks which are arranged in layers or strata. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Metamorphic Rocks
Those rocks, including gneiss, mica-schist, clay-slate, marble, and the like, which have become more or less crystalline. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Firm as a Rock
(See Similes.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894First-class Hard LabourFire and Water A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X…Brewer's: Inchcape Rock
Twelve miles from land, in the German Sea. It is dangerous for navigators, and therefore the abbot of Aberbrothok fixed a bell on a float, which gave notice to sailors of its whereabouts.…Brewer's: Kilmarth Rocks
(Scotland). A pile of stones towering 28 feet in height, and overhanging more than 12 feet, like the tower of Pisa (Italy). (See Cheesewring.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Trending
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