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Brewer's: Arts
Degrees in Arts. In the mediæval ages the full course consisted of the three subjects which constituted the Trivium and the four subjects which constituted the Quadrivium: The Trivium was…Brewer's: Customer
A man or acquaintance. A rum customer is one better left alone, as he is likely to show fight if interfered with. A shop term. ( See Card.) “Here be many of her old customers.”…Brewer's: Death
according to Milton, is twin-keeper with Sin, of Hell-gate. The other shape (if shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might…Brewer's: Rush
Not worth a rush. Worthless. The allusion is to the practice of strewing floors with rushes before carpets were invented. Distinguished guests had clean fresh rushes, but those of inferior…Brewer's: Soldier
originally meant a hireling or mercenary; one paid a solidus for military service; but hireling and soldier convey now very different ideas. (See above.) To come the old soldier over one…Brewer's: Temper
To make trim. The Italians say, temperare la lira, to tune the lyre: temperare una penna, to mend a pen; temperáre l'oriuôlo, to wind up the clock. In Latin, temperare calamum is “to mend…Brewer's: Family
A person of family. One of aristocratic birth. The Latin gens. “Family will take a person anywhere.” - Warner: Little Journey in the World, chap. iv. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…Brewer's: Food
Sir Walter Scott remarks that live cattle go by Saxon names, and slain meat by Norman-French, a standing evidence that the Normans were the lords who ate the meat, and the Saxons the serfs…Brewer's: Mother
Mother and Head of all Churches. So is St. John Lateran of Rome called. It occupies the site of the splendid palace of Plantius Lateranus, which escheated to the Crown from treason, and…Magna Carta
(Encyclopedia) Magna Carta or Magna Charta [Lat., = great charter], the most famous document of British constitutional history, issued by King John at Runnymede under compulsion from the barons and…Trending
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