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Brewer's: Salt an Invoice
(To) is to put the extreme value upon each article, and even something more, to give it piquancy and raise its market value, according to the maxim, sal sapit omnia. The French have the…Brewer's: Rook
(A). A cheat. “To rook,” to cheat; “to rook a pigeon,” to fleece a greenhorn. Sometimes it simply means, to win from another at a game of chance or skill. (See Rookery.) “`My Lord Marquis…Brewer's: Rookery
(3 syl.). Any low neighbourhood frequented by thieves and vagabonds. A person fleeced or liable to be fleeced is a pigeon, but those who prey upon these “gulls” are called rooks. “The…Brewer's: Vervain
Called “holy herb,” from its use in ancient sacred rites. Also called “pigeons' grass,” “Juno's tears,” and “simpler's joy.” Supposed to cure scrofula, the bite of rabid animals, to arrest…Brewer's: Fancy
Love —i.e. the passion of the fantasy or imagination. A fancyman is a man (not your husband) whom you fancy or select for chaperon. Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart or in the…Brewer's: Gombo
Pigeon French, or French as it is spoken by the coloured population of Louisiana, the French West Indies, Bourbon, and Mauritius. (Connected with jumbo.) “Creole is almost pure French, not…fungal infection
(Encyclopedia) fungal infection, infection caused by a fungus (see Fungi), some affecting animals, others plants. Serious damage is done to crops each year by fungal infections of plants such as…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: August 7, 1806
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark August 6, 1806August 8, 1806August 7, 1806 Thursday August 7th 1806. It began to rain about midnight and continued with but little intermission…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, March 17, 1806
Day 1266 Day 1268 Lewis, March 17, 1806 Monday March 17th 1806. Catel and his family left us this morning. Old Delashelwilt and his women still remain they have formed a camp near the fort…Brewer's: Automaton
- plural, automatons or automata. Machines which imitate the actions, etc., of living creatures. The most famous are the following:—(1) The pigeon that could fly, made, B.C. 400, by Archy…Trending
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