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Brewer's: Lieutenant
(pronounce lef-ten'-unt) is the Latin locum-tenens, through the French. A Lieutenant-Colonel is the Colonel's deputy. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland is a viceroy who represents the crown…Brewer's: Tulip Mania
A reckless mania for the purchase of tulip-bulbs in the seventeenth century. Beckmann says it rose to its greatest height in the years 1634-1637. A root of the species called Viceroy sold…Brewer's: Benjamin's Mess
The largest share. The allusion is to the banquet given by Joseph, viceroy of Egypt, to his brethren. “Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs” (Gen. xliii. 34). Source:…Brewer's: Cinchona
or Quinine. So named from the wife of the Contë del Chinchon, viceroy of Peru, whence the bark was first sent to Europe in 1640. Linnæus erroneously named it Cinchona for Chinchona. (See…mimicry
(Encyclopedia) CE5 Mimicry in butterflies mimicry, in biology, the advantageous resemblance of one species to another, often unrelated, species or to a feature of its own environment. (When the…Lasso, Orlando di
(Encyclopedia) Lasso, Orlando diLasso, Orlando diōrlänˈdō dē läsˈsō [key], 1532–94, Franco-Flemish composer, b. Mons, also known as Orlandus Lassus or Roland de Lassus. Lasso represents the…Josephine
(Encyclopedia) Josephine, 1763–1814, empress of the French (1804–9) as the consort of Napoleon I. Born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie in Martinique, she was married in 1779 to Alexandre de…Brewer's: Catholic Emancipation Act
(The). 10 Geo. IV. c. 7, April 13th, 1829, whereby Catholics were admitted to all corporate offices, and to an equal enjoyment of all municipal rights. The army and navy had been already…Brewer's: Masaniello
A corruption of TomMASo ANIELLO, a Neapolitan fisherman, who led the revolt of July, 1647. The great grievance was a new tax upon fruit, and the immediate cause of Masaniello's…Brewer's: Mamelukes
(2 syl.) or Mamalukes (Arabic, mamluc, a slave). A name given in Egypt to the slaves of the beys brought from the Caucasus, and formed into a standing army. In 1254 these military “slaves…Trending
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