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John Keats: On the Sea
On Sitting Down to Read King L...On Visiting the Tomb of BurnsOn the Sea It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns,…Brewer's: Black Sea
So called from the abounding black rock in the extensive coal-fields between the Bosphorus and Heracle'a. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Black SheepBlack…Brewer's: Bride of the Sea
Venice; so called from the ancient ceremony of the Doge, who threw a ring into the Adriatic, saying, “We wed thee, O sea, in token of perpetual domination.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: High Seas
All the sea which is not the property of a particular country. The sea three miles out belongs to the adjacent coast, and is called mare clausum. High-seas, like high-ways, means for the…Brewer's: Dry Sea
(A). A sandy desert. The camel is the ship of the desert. We read of the Persian sea of sand. “The see that men slepen the gravely see, that is alle gravelle and sond with outen only drope…Brewer's: Euxine Sea
(The)—i.e. the hospitable sea. It was formerly called Axine (inhospitable). So the “Cape of Good Hope” was called the Cape of Despair. “Beneventum” was originally called Maleventum, and “…Brewer's: King of the Sea
(The). The herring. “The head of an average-sized whale is from fifteen to sixteen feet [about one-third the length], and the lips open some six or eight feet; yet to such a mouth there is…Brewer's: Red Sea
The sea of the Red Man —i.e. Edom. Also called the “sedgy sea,” because of the sea-weed which collects there. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Red-shanksRed…Brewer's: Sea Deities
Amphitrite (4 syl.). Wife of Poseidon (3 syl.), queen goddess of the sea. N.B. Neptune had no wife. Doto, a sea-nymph, mentioned by Virgil. Galatea, a daughter of Nereus. Glaucus, a…Brewer's: Sea Legs
He has got his sea legs. Is able to walk on deck when the ship is rolling; able to bear the motion of the ship without sea-sickness. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Trending
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