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Brewer's: Singing-Bread

consecrated by the priest singing. (French, pain à chanter.) The reformers directed that the sacramental bread should be similar in fineness and fashion to the round bread- and-water…

Brewer's: Singing Chambermaids

in theatrical parlance, mean those smart young light comedy actresses who perform chambermaids and are good singers. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Singing…

Brewer's: Singing Tree

A tree whose leaves were so musical that every leaf sang in concert. (Arabian Nights: Story of the Sisters who Envied their Younger Sister.) (See Singing Apple.) Source: Dictionary of…

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

(Encyclopedia) Ladysmith Black MambazoLadysmith Black Mambazomämbäzˈō [key], choral group formed in 1965 in Ladysmith, South Africa, founded and led (until 2014) by Joseph Shabalala (1941–2020). The…

A Boy's Will: Wind and Window Flower

by Robert Frost Storm FearTo the Thawing WindWind and Window Flower Out of the winter things he fashions a story of modern love. LOVERS, forget your love, And list to the love of these…

The Fox and the Horse

The Fox and the Horse A farmer had a horse that had been an excellent faithful servant to him: but he was now grown too old to work; so the farmer would give him nothing more to eat, and said…

bird

(Encyclopedia) CE5 General anatomy of a bird bird, warm-blooded, egg-laying, vertebrate animal having its body covered with feathers and its forelimbs modified into wings, which are used by most…

John Keats: Fancy

by John Keats Ode to PsycheBards of passion and of mirthFancy Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home: At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, Like to bubbles when rain…

Anatomy and
Physiology: The Nose Knows

The Nose KnowsAnatomy and PhysiologyThe SensesWindows to the SoulCan You Hear Me Now?The Nose KnowsDon't Be So Touchy! The sense of smell is perhaps one of the most ancient of senses. The ability…

Weather: So Why Does It Rain?

So Why Does It Rain?WeatherBring on the RainDroplet to Drop … How Rain HappensTypes of PrecipitationFooling the CloudsSo Why Does It Rain? Wait a minute! After all this, we still don't know why it…