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Brewer's: Six Members
The six members that Charles I went into the House of Commons to arrest were Lord Kimbolton, Pym, Hollis, Hampden, Sir Arthur Haselrig, and Stroud. Being warned in time, they made good…Brewer's: Gallipot
(g hard) means a glazed pot, as galletyles (3 syl.) means glazed tiles. (Dutch, gleipot, glazed pot.) In farce and jest it forms a by-name for an apothecary. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Flesh and Blood
Human nature, as “Flesh and blood cannot stand it.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Flesh-potsFlemish School A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…Brewer's: Inkle and Yarico
The hero and heroine of a drama so called by George Colman. The story is from the Spectator, No. 11. Inkle is a young Englishman who is lost in the Spanish main; he falls in love with…Brewer's: Death under Shield
Death in battle. “Her imagination had been familiarised with wild and bloody events ... and had been trained up to consider an honourable `death under shield' (as that in a field of battle…Brewer's: Oignons d'Egypte
The flesh-pots of Egypt. Hence “regretter les oignons d'Egypte,” to sigh for the flesh-pots of Egypt, to long for luxuries lost and gone. Je plume oignons. I scold or grumble. Also peler…Brewer's: Posy
properly means a copy of verses presented with a bouquet. It now means the verses without the flowers, as the “posy of a ring,” or the flowers without the verses, as a “pretty posy.” “He…Brewer's: Potter
To go poking about, meddling and making, in a listless, purposeless manner. Pudder, podder, pother, bother, and puddle are varieties of the same word. To pudder is to stir with a puddering…Brewer's: Tappit-hen
(A). A huge pewter measuring-pot, containing at least three English quarts. Readers of Waverley will remember (in chap. xi.) the Baron Bradwardine's tappit-hen of claret from Bordeaux. To…Brewer's: Fleshed
He fleshed his sword. Used it for the first time. Men fleshed in cruelty —i.e. initiated or used to it. A sportsman's expression. When a sportsman wishes to encourage a young dog or hawk…Trending
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