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// Cite Here is a list of the best selling Mac software in 2010. /**/ Rank Software Title Publisher 1. Adobe Acrobat for Mac Adobe 2. Microsoft Office for Mac Microsoft…Brewer's: Marigold
So called in honour of the Virgin Mary, and hence the introduction of marigold windows in lady chapels. (See Marygold.) This riddle, Cuddy, if thou canst, explain ... What flower is that…Brewer's: Cophetua
An imaginary king of Africa, of great wealth, who “disdained all womankind.” One day he saw a beggar-girl from his window, and fell in love with her. He asked her name; it was Penelophon,…Brewer's: Ferguson
It's all very fine, Ferguson; but you don't lodge here. Capt. Ferguson was the companion of the Marquis of Waterford, when that young nobleman made himself notorious for his practical…Brewer's: Eleven Thousand Virgins
Ursula being asked in marriage by a pagan prince, fled towards Rome with her eleven thousand virgins. At Cologne they were all massacred by a party of Huns, and even to the present hour “…Brewer's: Mohocks
A class of ruffians who in the 18th century infested the streets of London. So called from the Indian Mohawks. One of their “new inventions” was to roll persons down Snow Hill in a tub;…Brewer's: Momus
One who carps at everything. Momus, the sleepy god, was always railing and carping. Momus, being asked to pass judgment on the relative merits of Neptune, Vulcan, and Minerva, railed at…Brewer's: Hang Out
Where do you hang out? Where are you living, or lodging? The allusion is to the custom, now restricted to public-houses, but once very general, of hanging before one's shop a sign…Brewer's: Hermetically Sealed
Closed securely. Thus we say, “My lips are hermetically sealed,” meaning so as not to utter a word of what has been imparted. The French say close-fitting doors and windows “shut…Brewer's: Saxon Characteristics
(architectural). (1) The quoining consists of a long stone set at the corner, and a short one lying on it and bonding into the wall. (2) The use of large heavy blocks of stone in some…Trending
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