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Brewer's: Boustrap'a
Napoleon III. The word is compounded of the first syllables Bou -logne, Stra -sbourg, Pa -ris, and alludes to his escapades in 1836 and 1840. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…Brewer's: Rykelot
A magpie (?); a little rook. The German roche, Anglo-Saxon hroc, seem to be cognate words. The last syllable is a diminutive. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Si
the seventh note in music, was not introduced till the seventeenth century. The original scale introduced by Guido d'Arezzo consisted of only six notes. (See Aretinian Syllables.) Source…Brewer's: Agglutinate Languages
Agglu′tinate The Turanian family of languages are so called because every syllable is a word, and these are glued together to form other words, and may be unglued so as to leave the roots…Brewer's: Manchester
The first syllable is the Friesic man (a common); and the word means the Roman encampment on the common. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Manchester…Brewer's: Parish Registers
Bills of mortality. George Crabbe, author of The Borough, has a poem in three parts, in ten-syllable verse with rhymes, entitled The Parish Register. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Metathesis
A figure of speech in which letters or syllables are transposed, as “You occupew my pie [py],” instead of “You occupy my pew;” daggle-trail for “draggle-tail,” etc. Source: Dictionary of…Brewer's: Heroic Verse
That verse in which epic poetry is generally written. In Greek and Latin it is hexameter verse, in English it is ten-syllable iambic verse, either in rhymes or not; in Italian it is the…Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Part 13
Part 13Allons! to that which is endless as it was beginningless, To undergo much, tramps of days, rests of nights, To merge all in the travel they tend to, and the days and nights they…Charles Pinckney: A Steady and Open Republican
A Steady and Open RepublicanCharles PinckneyMonday, May 5, 1788Mrs. Timothy The enclosed,[23] copied from a paper sent me by a friend, seems so peculiarly adapted to our present situation,…Trending
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