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Brewer's: Charybdis
[ch=k]. A whirlpool on the coast of Sicily. Scylla and Charybdis are employed to signify two equal dangers. Thus Horace says an author trying to avoid Scylla, drifts into Charybdis, i.e.…Brewer's: Diomedean Swop
An exchange in which all the benefit is on one side. This proverbial expression is founded on an incident related by Homer in the Iliad. Glaucus recognises Diomed on the battle-field, and…Brewer's: Ursa Major
Calisto, daughter of Lycaon, was violated by Jupiter, and Juno changed her into a bear. Jupiter placed her among the stars that she might be more under his protection. Homer calls it…Brewer's: White
denotes purity, simplicity, and candour; innocence, truth, and hope. The ancient Druids, and indeed the priests generally of antiquity, used to wear…Brewer's: Wake
(1 syl.). To keep vigils. (Anglo-Saxon, waeccan.) A vigil celebrated with junketing and dancing. “It may, therefore, be permitted them [the…Brewer's: Lion's Claws
Commonly used as ornaments to the legs of furniture, as tables, chairs, etc.; emblematical of strength and stability. The Greeks and Romans employed, for the same purpose, the hoofs of…William Shakespeare: Henry VI (Pt 1), Act I, Scene V
Scene VThe sameHere an alarum again: and Talbot pursueth the Dauphin, and driveth him: then enter Joan LA Pucelle, driving Englishmen before her, and exit after them then re-enter…The True George Washington: Farmer and Proprietor: Livestock
LivestockA stud stable was from an early time maintained, and the Virginia papers regularly advertised that the stud horse "Samson," "Magnolia," "Leonidas," "Traveller," or whatever the…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…Brewer's: Nebuchadnezzar
A correspondent of Notes and Queries (July 21, 1877) says that the compound Russian word Neboch-ad-ne-tzar means, “There is no god but the czar.” Of course this is not the meaning of the…Trending
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