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Brewer's: Dry Lodgings
Sleeping accommodation without board. Gentlemen who take their meals at clubs live in dry lodgings. “Dry Lodginge of seven weeks, £0 4s. 1d.” —SirW.Scott: Old Mortality (Intr. Rob.…Brewer's: Dulia
Du·li'·a An inferior degree of worship or veneration, such as that paid by Roman Catholics to saints and angels; Hyper-dulia is a superior sort of veneration reserved for the Virgin; but…Brewer's: Marvedie
(A). A maravedi (q.v.), a small obsolete Spanish copper coin of less value than a farthing. “What a trifling, foolish girl you are, Edith, to send me by express a letter crammed with…Brewer's: Mercutio
A kind-hearted, witty nobleman, kinsman to the Prince of Verona, in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Being mortally wounded by Tybalt, he was asked if he were hurt, and replied, “A scratch…Brewer's: Modred
in the romance of The Round Table, is represented as the treacherous knight. He revolted from his Uncle Arthur, whose wife he seduced, was mortally wounded in the battle of Camlan, in…Brewer's: Philip
Philip, remember thou art mortal. A sentence repeated to the Macedonian king every time he gave an audience. Philip sober. When a woman who asked Philip of Macedon to do her justice was…Brewer's: John Tamson's Man
a henpecked husband: one ordered here, and ordered there and ordered everywhere. Tameson —i.e. spiritless, the slave even of a Tame-son. “`The deil's in the wife!' said Cuddie. `Dye think…Brewer's: Salmon
as food for servants. At one time apprentices and servants stipulated that they should not be obliged to feed on salmon more than five days in a week. Salmon was one penny a pound. “A…Brewer's: St. Johnstone's Tippet
A halter; so called from Johnstone the hangman. “Sent to heaven wi' a St. Johnston's tippit about my hause.” —SirWalterScott: Old Mortality. chap. viii Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Sylphs
according to Middle Age belief, are the elemental spirits of air; so named by the Rosicrucians and Cabalists, from the Greek silphe (a butterfly or moth). (See Gnomes.) Sylphs. Any…Trending
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