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Brewer's: Oyster
Fast as a Kentish oyster i.e. hermetically sealed. Kentish oysters are proverbially good, and all good oysters are fast-closed. Oyster No more sense than an oyster. This is French: “…Brewer's: Oysters
Who eats oysters on St. James's Day will never want. St. James's Day is the first day of the oyster season (August 5th), when oysters are an expensive luxury eaten only by the rich. By 6,…Oyster (Book)
Author:Janette Turner HospitalPublisher:W.W. Norton & Company Mix the melodramatic tension of a Stephen King novel with the social consciousness of Shirley Jackson's macabre classic, The…oyster catcher
(Encyclopedia) oyster catcher, common name for members of the family Haematopodidae, ploverlike shorebirds, cosmopolitan in distribution. Their distinctive red bills are long, blunt, and flattened,…Oyster Bay
(Encyclopedia) Oyster Bay, uninc. area (1990 pop. 6,687) of the Town of Oyster Bay, Nassau co., SE N.Y., on N Long Island, on Long Island Sound; settled 1653. It is chiefly residential. Nearby is…oyster
(Encyclopedia) oyster, bivalve mollusk found in beds in shallow, warm waters of all oceans. The shell is made up of two valves, the upper one flat and the lower convex, with variable outlines and a…The Devil's Dictionary: Oyster
by Ambrose Bierce OWEOYSTER -n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the poor…Brewer's: Oyster and Huitre
(French) are variants of the same Latin word, ostrea. Old French uistre, uitre, huitre. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894OystersOyster Part A B C D E F…Brewer's: Oyster Part
(An). An actor who appears, speaks, or acts only once. Like an oyster, he opens but once. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Oyster and HuitreOyster A B C D…Deal Island
(Encyclopedia) Deal Island, small island, off the western shore of Delmarva peninsula, in Tangier Sound, SE Md. It is an oyster, clam, and crab shipping and processing center.Trending
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