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Brewer's: Double or Quits
The winner stakes his stake, and the loser promises to pay twice the stake if he loses again; but if he wins the second throw he pays nothing, and neither player loses or wins anything.…Brewer's: Bobadil
A military braggart of the first water. Captain Bobadil is a character in Ben Jonson's comedy of Every Man in his Humour. This name was probably suggested by Bobadilla, first governor of…Brewer's: Bodies
Compound bodies, in chemical phraseology, mean those which have two or more simple bodies or elements in their composition, as water. Simple bodies, in chemical phraseology, mean the…Brewer's: Cyanean Rocks
(The). The Symplegades at the entrance of the Euxine Sea. Said to close together when a vessel attempted to sail between them, and thus crush it to pieces. Cyanean means dark, and…Brewer's: Nicker
One who nicks or hits a mark exactly. Certain night-larkers, whose game was to break windows with halfpence, assumed this name in the early part of the eighteenth century. His scattered…Brewer's: Pinchbeck
So called from Christopher Pinchbeck, a musical-clock maker, of Fleet Street. (Died 1732.) The word is used for Brummagem gold; and the metal is a compound of copper, zinc, and tin. “Where…Brewer's: Seven Bodies in Alchemy
Sun is gold, moon silver, Mars iron, Mercury quicksilver, Saturn lead, Jupiter tin, and Venus copper. The bodies seven, eek, lo hem heer anoon; Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe; Mars…Brewer's: Galvanism
(g hard). So called from Louis Galvani, of Bologna. Signora Galvani in 1790 had frog-soup prescribed for her diet, and one day some skinned frogs which happened to be placed near an…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: Little Masters
A name applied to certain designers, who worked for engravers, etc., in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Called little because their designs were on a small scale, fit for copper…Trending
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