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Brewer's: Out
Out of God's blessing into the warm sun. One of Ray's proverbs meaning from good to less good. “Ab equis ad asmos” When the king says to Hamlet “How is it that the clouds still hang on you…Brewer's: Quit
Discharged from an obligation, “acquitted.” To John I owed great obligation; But John unhappily thought fit To publish it to all the nation- Now I and John are fairly quit. Prior. Cry…Brewer's: Riff-raff
The offscouring of society, or rather, “refuse and sweepings.” Rief is Anglo-Saxon, and means a rag; Raff is also Anglo-Saxon, and means sweepings. (Danish, rips-raps.) The French have the…Brewer's: Run Amuck
(See Amuck.) “It was like a Malay running amuck, only with a more deadly weapon.” —The Times. Frontless and satire-proof he scours the streets, And runs an Indian-muck at all he meets.…Brewer's: Little
Thomas Moore published a volume of amatory poems in 1808, under the name of Thomas Little. “When first I came my proper name was Little- now I'm Moore.” Hood: The Wee Man. Little…Brewer's: Sixes and Sevens
(All). Illassorted; not matched, higgledy-piggledy. To be at sixes and sevens. Spoken of things, it means in confusion; spoken of persons, it means in disagreement or hostility “Six, yea…Brewer's: Baca
The Valley of Baca, also called the Valley of Tears, translated in the New Version “the Valley of Weeping,” apparently a dry sterile valley, the type of this earth spoilt by sorrow and sin…Brewer's: Lines
The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places. The part allotted to me and measured off by a measuring line. (Palms xvi. 6.) Hard lines. Harsh restrictions. Here lines means an allotment…Brewer's: Kiss
as a mode of salutation, comes from its use to express reverence or worship. Thus to adore idols and to kiss idols mean the same thing. Indeed, the word adore signifies simply to carry the…Brewer's: Fag
One who does, and perseveres in doing. In public schools, it means a little boy who waits upon a bigger one. Probably a contracted form of factor, factotum; Latin, fac-ere, to do. Fag.…Trending
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