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Brewer's: Vulgar Errors
Aristotle taught that women have more teeth than men. From an account given in Genesis ii. 21 it was once generally believed that a woman has one rib more than a man. It is a vulgar error…Brewer's: Bar-sur-Aube
(Prévot). Je ne voudrais pas être roi, si j'étais prévot de Bar-sur-Aube (French). I should not care to be king, if I were Provost of Bar-sur-Aube [the most lucrative and honourable of all…Brewer's: Ladybird, Ladyfly, Ladycow
or May-bug. The Bishop Barnaby, called in German, Unser herrin huhn (our Lady-fowl), Marien-huhn (Mary-fowl), and Marien Käfer (Mary's beetle). “Cushcow Lady,” as it is called in Yorkshire…The Congress of Women: The Leper
by Miss Kate Marsden Philanthropy for Girls in Paris.Symmetrical WomanhoodThe Leper Miss Kate Marsden was born in The Parade Edmonton, London, England. Her parents were J. T. Marsden Esq.,…potato
(Encyclopedia) potato or white potato, common name for a perennial plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the family Solanaceae (nightshade family) and for its swollen underground stem, a tuber, which is one…insect
(Encyclopedia) CE5 External anatomy of a female grasshopper, representative of the class Insecta insect, invertebrate animal of the class Insecta of the phylum Arthropoda. Like other arthropods,…Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 24
Part 24Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more…Brewer's: Chicken
(plural chickens ). It is quite a mistake to suppose “chickens” to be a double plural. The Anglo-Saxon is cicen, plural cicen-u. We have a few plural forms in-en, as ox-en, brack-en,…Brewer's: Similes
in common use: BALD as a coot. BITTER as gall,soot. BLACK as ink, as a coal, as a crow BLIND as a bat, a beetle, a mole. BLUNT as a hedge-hook. BRAVE as Alexander. BRIGHT as silver.…insecticides
(Encyclopedia) insecticides, chemical, biological, or other agents used to destroy insect pests; the term commonly refers to chemical agents only. The liabilities of chemical insecticides have…Trending
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