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Brewer's: Doric Dialect
The dialect spoken by the natives of Doris, in Greece. It was broad and hard. Hence, any broad dialect. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Doric LandDoric A B…Brewer's: Doric Land
Greece, Doris being a part of Greece. Through all the bounds Of Doric laud. Milton: Paradise Lost, book 1. 510. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Doric…Brewer's: Orders of Architecture
These five are the classic orders: Tuscan, Dorie, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. The following was the usual practice: CORINTHIAN, for temples of Venus, Flora, Proserpine, and the Water…Brewer's: Doric Reed
Pastoral poetry. Everything Doric was very plain, but cheerful, chaste, and solid. The Dorians were the pastoral people of Greece, and their dialect was that of the country rustics. Our…Brewer's: Doric
The oldest, strongest, and simplest of the Grecian orders of architecture. So called from Doris, in Greece, or the Dorians who employed it. The Greek Doric is simpler than the Roman…Brewer's: Haddock
According to tradition, it was a haddock in whose mouth St. Peter found the stater (or piece of money), and the two marks on the fish's neck are said to be the impressions of the apostle's…Brewer's: Sea Deities
Amphitrite (4 syl.). Wife of Poseidon (3 syl.), queen goddess of the sea. N.B. Neptune had no wife. Doto, a sea-nymph, mentioned by Virgil. Galatea, a daughter of Nereus. Glaucus, a…Women in the 111th Congress
This table provides the name and state of the women currently serving in the 111th Congress (which began in 2009). There are 77 women in the House of Representatives and 17 women in the Senate…Trending
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