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Brewer's: Signs
instead of words. A symbolic language made by gestures. Members of religious orders bound to silence, communicate with each other in this way. John, a monk, gives, in his Life of St. Odo,…Brewer's: Skedaddle
To run away, to be scattered in rout. The Scotch apply the word to the milk spilt over the pail in carrying it. During the late American war, the New York papers said the Southern forces…Brewer's: Sice
(1 syl.). A sizing, an allowance of bread and butter. “He'll print for a sice.” In the University of Cambridge the men call the pound loaf, two inches of butter, and pot of milk allowed…Brewer's: Banbury
A Banbury-man—i.e. a Puritan (Ben Jonson); a bigot. From the reign of Elizabeth to that of Charles II. Banbury was noted for its number of Puritans and its religious “zeal.” As thin as…Brewer's: Bees
Jupiter was nourished by bees in infancy. (See Athenian Bee, p. 72, col. 1.) Pindar is said to have been nourished by bees with honey instead of milk. The coins of Ephesus had a bee on the…Brewer's: Bistonians
The Thracians; so called from Biston, son of Mars, who built Bistonia on the Lake Bistonis. So the Bistonian race, a maddening train, Exult and revel on the Thracian plain; With milk their…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Address To Edinburgh
by Robert Burns Song-Yon Wild Mossy MountainsAddress To A HaggisAddress To Edinburgh Edina! Scotia's darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow'rs, Where once, beneath a…Brewer's: Patten
Martha or Patty, says Gay, was the daughter of a Lincolnshire farmer, with whom the village blacksmith fell in love. To save her from wet feet when she went to milk the cows, the village…Brewer's: Panther
The Spotted Panther in Dryden's Hind and Panther means the Church of England full of the spots of error; whereas the Church of Rome is faultless as the milk-white hind The panther, sure…Brewer's: Flummery
Flattering nonsense, palaver. In Wales it is a food made of oatmeal steeped in water and kept till it has become sour. In Cheshire and Lancashire it is the prepared skin of oatmeal mixed…Trending
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