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Brewer's: Exhibition
My son has got an exhibition at Oxford. An allowance of meat and drink; a benefaction for maintenance. (Latin, exhibitio, an allowance of food and other necessaries, “alimentis exhibere…Brewer's: Emilia
(in Shakespeare's Othello). Wife of Iago. She is induced by her husband to purloin Desdemona's handkerchief, which Iago conveys to Cassio's chamber, and tells the Moor that Desdemona had…Brewer's: Monster
(The). Renwick Williams, a wretch who used to prowl about London, wounding respectable women with a double-edged knife. He was convicted of several offences in July, 1790. The green-eyed…Brewer's: Leet
(A). A manor-court for petty offences; the day on which such a court was held. (Anglo-Saxon, lethe, a law-court superior to the wapentake.) Who has a breast so pure, But some uncleanly…Brewer's: Seel
To close the eyelids of a hawk by running a thread through them; to hoodwink. (French, ciller, cil, the eyelash.) She that so young could give out such a seeming, To seel her father's eyes…2002 George Foster Peabody Awards
Terror on Tape:CNN Productions (Atlanta)Bringing Down A Dictator:York Zimmerman, Inc., presented on PBS48 Hours:“9/11,” CBS, New YorkThe Sonic Memorial Project:Lost and Found Sound from the…Brewer's: Green-Eyed Jealousy
or Green-eyed Monster. Expressions used by Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice, iii. 2; Othello, iii. 3). As cats, lions, tigers, and all the green-eyed tribe “mock the meat they feed on,” so…Brewer's: Guards of the Pole
The two stars b and g in the Great Bear. Shakespeare, in Othello, ii. l, refers to them where he says, the surge seems “to quench the guards of the ever-fixéd pole.” “How to knowe the…Brewer's: Bianca
Wife of Fazio. When Fazio became rich, and got entangled with the Marchioness Aldabella, she accused him to the Duke of Florence of being privy to the death of Bartoldo, an old miser.…Brewer's: Itching of the Eye
If the right eye itches it betokens laughter at hand; if the left eye, it betokens grief; but Shakespeare does not observe this distinction. My right eye itches now, so I shall see My love…Trending
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