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Brewer's: Rouse
(A). A contraction of carousal. a drinking bout. (Swedish, rus; Norwegian, ruus, drunkenness; Dutch, roes, a bumper.) Rouse (1 syl.). “The king doth wake to-night, and takes his rouse.”…Brewer's: Rowned in the Ear
Whispered in the ear. The old word rown, rowned (to whisper, to talk in private). Polonius says to the king in Hamlet - “Let his queen-mother all alone entreat him to show his grief- left…Brewer's: Truepenny
Hamlet says to the Ghost, “Art thou there, Truepenny?” Then to his comrades, “You hear this fellow in the cellarage?” (i. 5). And again, “Well said, old mole; canst work?” Truepenny means…Brewer's: Unaneled
(3 syl.). Unanointed; without extreme unction. (Saxon oell means “oil,” and an-oell to “anoint with oil.”) “Unhouseled [without the last sacrament], disappointed, unaneled.” Shakespeare…Brewer's: Withers of a Horse
(The) are the muscles which unite the neck and shoulders. The skin of this part of a horse is often galled by the pommel of an illfitting saddle, and…Brewer's: Swear by my Sword
(Hamlet, i. 5) - that is, “by the cross on the hilt of my sword.” Again in Winter's Tale, “Swear by this sword thou wilt perform my bidding” (ii. 3). Holinshed says, “Warwick kisses the…Brewer's: Funeral Banquet
The custom of giving a feast at funerals came to us from the Romans, who not only feasted the friends of the deceased, but also distributed meat to the persons employed. Thrift, thrift,…Brewer's: Glass Slipper
(of Cinderella). A curious blunder of the translator, who has mistaken vair (sable) for verre (glass). Sable was worn only by kings and princes, so the fairy gave royal slippers to her…Brewer's: Forty Winks
A short nap. Forty is an indefinite number, meaning a few. Thus, we say, “A, B, C, and forty more.” Coriolanus says, “I could beat forty of them” (iii. 1). (See Forty.) “The slave had…Brewer's: Eisell
Wormwood wine. Hamlet says to Laertes, Woul't drink up eisell —i.e. drink wormwood wine to show your love to the dead Ophelia? In the Troy Book of Ludgate we have the line “Of bitter…Trending
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