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Brewer's: Hamlet
A daft person (Icelandic, amlod'), one who is irresolute, and can do nothing fully. Shakespeare's play is based on the Danish story of Amleth' recorded in Saxo-Grammaticus. Source:…Brewer's: Heat
One course in a race; activity, action. Feigned Zeal, you saw, set out with speedier pace. But the last heat Plain Dealing won the race. Dryden. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…Brewer's: Hermione
(4 syl.). Wife of Leontes, King of Silicia. Being suspected of infidelity, she was thrown into jail, swooned, and was reported to be dead. She was kept concealed till her infant Perdita…Brewer's: Eyes
The Almond Eyes. The Chinese. “He will not receive a very warm welcome from the Almond Eyes.” — F.Millar: On the Central Saints' Rest (1891). Eyes to the blind. A staff. So called in…Brewer's: Faces
To keep two faces under one hood. To be double-faced; to pretend to be very religious, and yet live an evil life. “We never troubled the Church ... We knew we were doing what we ought not to do, and…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: Fata Morgana
A sort of mirage occasionally seen in the Straits of Messina. Fata is Italian for a “fairy,” and the fairy Morgana was the sister of Arthur and pupil of Merlin. She lived at the bottom of…Brewer's: Fate
= something destined or suitable, is not the Latin fatum, but the French fait = share, one's own, that which suits one; as “voila mon fait,” that is the man for me. “Pour moi, ma sieur, a…Brewer's: February
The month of purification amongst the ancient Romans. (Latin, februo, to purify by sacrifice.) The 2nd of February (Candlemas Day). It is said, if the weather is fine and frosty at the…Brewer's: Filibuster
A piratical adventurer. The most notorious was William Walker, who was shot in 1855. (French, flibustier, a corruption of our “freebooter;” German, freibeuter; Spanish, filibustero; Dutch…Trending
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