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Brewer's: Wat
A familar name for a hare. By this, poor Wat, far off upon a hill, Stands on his hinder legs, with listening ear. Shakespeare:…Brewer's: Graham
A charlatan who gave indecent and blasphemous addresses in the “Great Apollo Room,” Adelphi. He sometimes made mesmerism a medium of pandering to the prurient taste of his audience.…Brewer's: Grimwig
A choleric old gentleman fond of contradiction, generally ending with the words “or I'll eat my head.” He is the friend of Brownlow. (Dickens: Oliver Twist.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Devil's Dust
Old rags torn up by a machine called the “devil,” and made into shoddy by gum and pressure. Mr. Ferrand brought the subject before Parliament, March 4th, 1842. It is so called from the…Brewer's: Devil's Four-Poster
(The). A hand at whist with four clubs. It is said that such a hand is never a winning one. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Devil's Frying-panDevil's Dyke A…Brewer's: Og
King of Bashan, according to Rabbinical mythology, was an antediluvian giant, saved from the flood by climbing on the roof of the ark. After the passage of the Red Sea, Moses first…Brewer's: Filioque Controversy
(The) long disturbed the Eastern and Western Churches. The point was this: Did the Holy Ghost proceed from the Father and the Son (Filio-que), or from the Father only? The Western Church…Brewer's: Wandering Wood
in book i. of Spenser's Faërie Queene, is where St. George and Una encounter Error, who is slain by the knight. Una tries to persuade the Red Cross…Brewer's: Watch Night
December 31st, to see the Old Year out and the New Year in by a religious service. John Wesley grafted it on the religious system, but it has been…Brewer's: Grimsby
(Lincolnshire). Grim was a fisherman who rescued from a drifting boat an infant named Habloc, who he adopted and brought up. This infant turned out to be the son of the king of Denmark,…Trending
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