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Brewer's: Saucer Eyes
Big, round, glaring eyes. Yet when a child (bless me!) I thought That thou a pair of horns had'st got, With eyes like saucers staring. PeterPindar: Ode to the Devil. Source: Dictionary…Brewer's: Pentreath
(Dolly). The last person who spoke Cornish. Daines Barrington went from London to the Land's End to visit her. She lived at Mousehole. Hail, Mousehole! birthplace of old Doll Pentreath,…Brewer's: Rhapsody
means songs strung together. The term was originally applied to the books of the Iliad and Odyssey, which at one time were in fragments. Certain bards collected together a number of the…Brewer's: Eurydice
(4 syl.). Wife of Orpheus, killed by a serpent on her wedding night. Orpheus went down to the infernal regions to seek her, and was promised she should return on condition that he looked…Brewer's: Moly
Wild garlic, called sorcerer's garlic. There are many sorts, all of which flower in May, except “the sweet moly of Montpelier,” which blossoms in September. The most noted are “the great…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner
by Robert Burns Ode On The Departed Regency BillA New Psalm For The Chapel Of KilmarnockEpistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner Auld comrade dear, and brither sinner, How's a'…Brewer's: Axe
“To hang up one's axe.” To retire from business, to give over a useless project. The allusion is to the ancient battle-axe, hung up to the gods when the fight was done. All classical…Brewer's: Castor
A hat. Castor is the Latin for a beaver, and beaver means a hat made of the beaver's skin. Tom Trot Took his new castor from his head. Randall: Diary. Castor and Pollux What we call…Brewer's: Cecilia
(St.). A Roman lady who underwent martyrdom in the third century. She is the patron saint of the blind, being herself blind; she is also patroness of musicians, and “inventor of the organ…Brewer's: Crib
(A). Slang for a house or dwelling, as a “Stocking Crib” (i.e. a hosiery), a “Thimble Crib” (i.e. a silversmith's). Crib is an ox—stall. (Anglo-Saxon, crib, a stall, a bed, etc.) “Where no…Trending
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