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Brewer's: Lick into Shape
(To). According to tradition the cubs of bears are cast shapeless, and remain so till the dam has licked them into proper form. So watchful Bruin forms, with plastic care, Each growing…Brewer's: Doctors
False dice, which are doctored, or made to turn up winning numbers. `The whole autechamber is full, my lord—knights and squires, doctors and dicers.' `The dicers with their doctors in…Brewer's: Dulness
King of dulness. Colley Cibber, poet laureate after Eusden. `God save king Cibber!' mounts in every note . . . So when Jove's block descended from on high . . . Loud thunder to the bottom…Brewer's: May-pole
(London). The races in the Dunciad take place “where the tall May-pole overlooked the Strand.” On the spot now occupied by St. Mary-le-Strand, anciently stood a cross. In the place of this…Brewer's: Brazen Head
The following are noted:- One by Albertus Magnus, which cost him thirty years' labour, and was broken into a thousand pieces by Thomas Aquinas, his disciple. One by Friar Bacon. “Bacon…Pope, Alexander
(Encyclopedia) Pope, Alexander, 1688–1744, English poet. Although his literary reputation declined somewhat during the 19th cent., he is now recognized as the greatest poet of the 18th cent. and the…Crab, The
(Encyclopedia) Crab, The, English name for Cancer, a constellation.Broads, the
(Encyclopedia) Broads, the, region, c.5,000 acres (2,023 hectares), mainly in Norfolk, E England, extending inland to Norwich from the coast. It is composed of wide, interlocking shallow lakes (…Skaw, the
(Encyclopedia) Skaw, the, Denmark: see Skagen.Bahamas, the
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Bahamas, the Bahamas, the bəhäˈməz , officially Commonwealth of the Bahamas, independent nation (…Trending
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