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Brewer's: Cat-lap
Milk or weak tea, only fit for the cat to lap. “A more accomplished old woman never drank cat-lap.” —Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Dairy
A corrupt form of “dey-ery,” Middle English deierie and deyyerye, from deye, a dairymaid. “The dey or farm-woman entered with her pitchers, to deliver the milk for the family.” —Scott:…Brewer's: Trimilki
The Anglo-Saxon name for the month of May, because in that month they began to milk their kine three times a day. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Una Serranilla
[a little mountain song], by Mendoza, Marquis of Santillana, godfather of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. This song, of European celebrity, was composed on a little girl found by the marquis…Brewer's: Posset
properly means a drink taken before going to bed; it was milk curdled with wine. “In his morning's draught ... his concerves or cates ... and when he goeth to bedde his posset smoaking hot…Brewer's: Sky-blue
Milk and water, the colour of the skies. Its name derision and reproach pursue, And strangers tell of three times skimmed sky-blue. Bloomfield: Farmer's Boy. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Amalthea's Horn
The cornucopia or horn of plenty. The infant Zeus was fed with goats' milk by Amalthea, one of the daughters of Melisseus, King of Crete. Zeus, in gratitude, broke off one of the goat's…Brewer's: Amrita
The elixir of immortality, made by churning the milk-sea (Hindu mythology). Sir William Jones speaks of an apple so called, because it bestows immortality on those who partake of it. The…Brewer's: Baviad
(The). A merciless satire by Gifford on the Della Cruscan poetry, published 1794. The word is from Virgil's Eclogue, iii. 9. He may with foxes plough, and milk he-goats, Who praises Bavins…Brewer's: Beltane
(2 syl.). A festival observed in Ireland on June 21st, and in some parts of Scotland on May Day. A fire is kindled on the hills, and the young people dance round it, and feast on cakes…Trending
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