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Brewer's: Dumb-barge

(A). A barge without sails, used for a pier, and not for conveying merchandise up and down a river. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Dumb-bell NebulaDumachus…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, Dedication

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Prologue Dedication To Thomas Brown, Esq., the Younger, H.F. Dear Tom, Allow me to request you to introduce Mr. Peter Bell to the respectable family of the Fudges.…

Brewer's: Paletot

[pal'-c-to ]. A corruption of palla-toque, a cloak with a hood. Called by Piers Plowman a paltock. The hood or toque has disappeared, but the word remains the same. Source: Dictionary of…

Brewer's: Ambry

a cupboard, locker, or recess. In church, for keeping vestments, books, or other articles. Used by a confusion for almonry, or niche in the wall where alms, etc., were deposited. Now used…

Brewer's: Tutivillus

The demon who collects all the words skipped over or mutilated by priests in the performance of the services. These literary scraps or shreds he deposits in that pit which is said to be…

Brewer's: Plowman

The Vision of Piers Plowman is a satirical poem by W. [or R.] Langland, completed in 1362. The poet supposes himself falling asleep on the Malvern Hills, and in his dream sees various…

Brewer's: Rewe

A roll or slip; as Ragman's Rewe. (See Ragman.) “There is a whole world of curious history contained in the phrase `ragman's rewe,' meaning a list, roll, catalogue, ... charter, scroll of…

Brewer's: Robert of Brunne

that is, of Bourne, in Lincolnshire. His name was Robert Manning, author of an old English Chronicle, written in the reign of Edward III. It consists of two parts, the first of which is in…

Brewer's: Parson

says Blackstone, is “persona ecclesiae,” one that hath full rights of the parochial church. (See Clerical Titles.) Among wyves and wodewes ich am ywoned sute [wont to set], Yparroked […