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Brewer's: Letter-Gae
The precentor is called by Allen Ramsay “The Letter-gae of haly rhyme.” “Holy rhyme” means hymns or chants. “There were no sae mony hairs on the warlock's face as there's on Letter-gae's…Brewer's: Plates
or Plates of Ment. Slang for feet. One of the chief sources of slang is rhyme. Thus meat rhymes with feet, and “warming my plates” is slang for warming my fect. Similarly, “Pory O'More” is…Brewer's: Rhopalic Verse
(wedge-verse). A line in which each successive word has more syllables than the one preceding it (Greek, rhopalon, a club, which from the handle to the top grows bigger.) Rem tibi confeci…Brewer's: Row
(rhyme with now). A tumult. It used to be written roue, and referred to the night encounters of the roués or profligate bon-vivants whose glory it was to attack the “Charleys” and disturb…Brewer's: Runes
The earliest alphabet in use among the Gothic tribes of Northern Europe. The characters were employed either for purposes of secrecy or for divination. Rim is Gaelic for “secret,” and…Brewer's: Swag
Luggage, knapsack, a bundle; also food carried about one. Swag-shop, a store of minor, or cheap-priced goods. (Scotch, sweg.) “[Palliser] began to retrace the way by which he had fled and…Information Please Haiku Contest
// Cite Tributes to Seinfeld A selection of haikus from some of the editors at Information Please: How could you cancel? Hey Jerry, the jerk store called They're all out of…Brewer's: Dido
It was Porson who said he could rhyme on any subject; and being asked to rhyme upon the three Latin gerunds, gave this couplet - When Dido found Æneas would not come, She mourned in…Brewer's: Leonine Verses
properly speaking, are either hexameter verses, or alternate hexameter and pentameter verses, rhyming at the middle and end of each respective line. These fancies were common in the 12th…Brewer's: Sleave
The ravelled sleave of care Shakespeare: Macbeth). The sleave is the knotted or entangled part of thread or silk, the raw edge of woven articles. Chaucer has “sleeveless words” (words like…Trending
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