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Brewer's: Attercop
An ill-tempered. person, who mars all sociability. Strictly speaking, the attercop is the poison-spider. (Anglo-Saxon, atter, poison; cop , spider. Our cob-web should be cop-web, i.e.…Brewer's: Intoxication
Pliny (xvi. 20) tells us this word is derived from taxa, a species of bay-tree used for poisoning arrows. Hence the Greek toxon (a bow and arrows), and toxicon (rank poison). Source:…Brewer's: Arowroot
is araruta, the Indian word ara is the name of the plant. There is no evidence of its being used to absorb the poison of poisoned arrows in fleshy wounds. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…Brewer's: Manna of St. Nicholas of Bari
The name given to a colourless and tasteless poison, sold in phials by a woman of Italy named Tofani, who confessed to having poisoned six hundred persons by this liquid. Source:…Checking in: Japan One Year Later
A look at how Japan has recovered one year after the devastating earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. By Jennie Wood Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally, September 19, 2011 …Brewer's: Death in the Pot
During a dearth in Gilgal, there was made for the sons of the prophets a pottage of wild herbs, some of which were poisonous. When the sons of the prophets tasted the pottage, they cried…Brewer's: Delia
of Pope's line, “Slander or poison dread from Delia's rage,” was Lady Deloraine, who married W. Windam of Carsham, and died 1744. The person said to have been poisoned was Miss Mackenzie…Brewer's: Nessus
Shirt of Nessus. A source of misfortune from which there is no escape; a fatal present; anything that wounds the susceptibilities. Thus Renan has “the Nessus-shirt of ridicule.” Hercules…Brewer's: Points of the Escutcheon
There are nine points distinguished in heraldry by the first nine letters of the alphabet- three at top, A, B, C; three down the middle, D, E, F; and three at the bottom, G, H, I. The…Brewer's: Poisson d'Avril
An April fool. The poisson d'Avril is the mackerel, and we have the expression “You silly mackerel,” and silly indeed are those who allow themselves to be caught by the palpable jokes…Trending
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