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Welcome to New York

CBSWednesday 8:30–9:00 p.m. Cast:Christine Baranski, Jim Gaffigan, Rocky Carroll Indiana native Jim Gaffigan is like a fish out of water when he takes a job in Manhattan as a weatherman for a…

Brewer's: Bran-new

or Brand-new. (Anglo-Saxon, brand, a torch.) Fire new. Shakespeare, in Love's Labour Lost, i. 1, says, “A man of fire-new words.” And again in Twelfth Night, iii. 2, “Fire-new from the…

Brewer's: New Christians

Certain Jews of Portugal, who yielded to compulsion and suffered themselves to be baptised, but in secret observed the Mosaic ceremonies. (Fifteenth century.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Brewer's: New Jerusalem

The paradise of Christians, in allusion to Rev. xxi. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894New ManNew Christians A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q…

Brewer's: New Man

The regenerated man. In Scripture phrase the unregenerated state is called the old man (q.v.). Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894New StyleNew Jerusalem A B C…

Brewer's: New Style

The reformed or Gregorian calendar, adopted in England in September, 1752. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894New TestamentNew Man A B C D E F G H I J…

Brewer's: New Testament

The oldest MSS. extant are:- (1) The Codex Sinaiticus , published at the expense of Alexander II. of Russia since the Crimean war. This codex contains nearly the whole of the Old and New…

Brewer's: New World

America; the Eastern Hemisphere is called the Old World. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894New Year's DayNew Testament A B C D E F G H I J K L M N…

Brewer's: Span New

(See Spick.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894SpanielSpain A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Related…

Papua New Guinea

Infoplease has everything you need to know about Papua New Guinea. Check out our country profile, full of essential information about Papua New Guinea's geography, history, government, economy,…