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Brewer's: Nab
The fairy which offers Orpheus for food in the infernal regions a roasted ant, a flea's thigh, butterflies' brains, some sucking mites, a rainbow-tart, and other delicacies of like nature…Brewer's: Colt's-tooth
The love of youthful pleasure. Chaucer uses the word “coltish” for skittish. Horses have at three years old the colt's-tooth. The allusion is to the colt's teeth of animals, a period of…Brewer's: Faint
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady. “The bold a way will find or make.” King: Orpheus and Eurydice. “Faint harts faire ladies neuer win.” (1569.) Philobiblion Society's Publications (1827…Formidable Fungus
According to recent research by archaeologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the well-dressed Ice Age woman's outfit doesn't resemble anything like the crude hide and fur…Brewer's: Supernaculum
The very best wine. The word is Low Latin for “upon the nail,” meaning that the wine is so good the drinker leaves only enough in his glass to make a bead on his nail. The French say of…Brewer's: Danaides
(4 syl.). Daughters of Danaos (King of Argos). They were fifty in number, and married the fifty sons of Ægyptos. They all but one murdered their husbands on their wedding-night, and were…Greek and Roman Mythology
The many gods and heroes of the Classical world Most of the Greek deities were adopted by the Romans, although in many cases there was a change of name. In the list below, information is given…Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: E
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z E. E.G. E Pluribus Unum Eager Eagle Eagle-stones Ear Ear-finger Ear-marked…John Keats: Part 1
by John Keats Part 2Part 1 Upon a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy…Telemachus Visits Nestor at Pylos - The Odyssey
Assembly of the People of Ith... The Visit to King Menelaus, W... Telemachus Visits Nestor at Pylos. but as the sun was rising from the fair sea[1] into the firmament of heaven to…Trending
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