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Brewer's: Culver
Pigeon. (Old English, colver; Latin, columba; hence culver-house, a dove-cote.) On liquid wing, The sounding culver shoots. Thomson: Spring 452. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,…Brewer's: Cockshy
(A ). A free fling or “shy” at something. The allusion is to the once popular Shrove-Tuesday sport of shying or casting stones or sticks at cocks. This sport is now superseded by pigeon-…Brewer's: Squab Pie
Pie made of squabs—i.e. young pigeons; also a pie made of mutton, apples, and onions. Cornwall squab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings. And Leicester beans and bacon, fit for kings. King:…Brewer's: Stockdove
The wild pigeon; so called because it breeds in the stocks of hollow trees, or rabbit burrows. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894StockfishStock, Lock, and…Brewer's: Extinct Species
[since the time of man]. The dodo, great auk, quagga, sea-cow, and white rhinoceros. Getting very rare: the bison, the Carolina paraket, the giraffe, and the passenger pigeon once common…November 2016: Deadly Fires in Tennessee
U.S. News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major science and disaster news events of November 2016. 1. Oklahoma Suffers…Candide: Candide and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, Draw Near to the Coast of France
What Befell Candide and Marti... What Happened to Candide and ... Candide and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, Draw Near to the Coast of France At length they descried…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, April 17, 1806
Day 1329 Day 1331 Lewis, April 17, 1806 Thursday April 17th 1806. This morning early I sent out the hunters, and set several additional hands about the packsaddles. I find that the sturgeon…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, August 7, 1806
Day 1527 Day 1529 Lewis, August 7, 1806 Thursday August 7th 1806. It began to rain about midnight and continued with but little intermission until 10 A.M. today. the air was cold and…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, September 20, 1805
Day 899 Day 901 Lewis, September 20, 1805 Friday September 20th 1805. This morning my attention was called to a species of bird which I had never seen before. It was reather larger than a…Trending
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