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Brewer's: Devil's Nostrils
(The). Two vast caverns separated by a huge pillar of natural rock in the mainland of the Zetland Islands. (See The Pirate, chap. xxii.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…Brewer's: Vinegar Bible
Printed at the Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1717. So called because it has the word vinegar instead of vineyard in the running head-line of Luke xxii. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…Brewer's: Extravagantes Constitutiones
or Extravagants. The papal constitutions of John XXII., and some few of his successors, supplemental to the “Corpus Juris Canonici.” So called because they were not ranged in order with…Brewer's: Fingal
i.e. Fin-mac-Coul. (See Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary, chap. xxii.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Fingal's CaveFinetor A B C D E F G H I J K L M…Brewer's: Beguins
A sisterhood instituted in the twelfth century, founded by Lambert Bégue or Lambert le Bègue. The members of the male society were called Beghards (q.v. ). The Béguins were at liberty to…Brewer's: Bilk
To cheat, to obtain goods and decamp without paying for them. “The landlord explained it by saying that `a bilk' is a man who never misses a meal and never pays a cent.” —A. K. McClure:…Brewer's: Adullamites
(4 syl.). The adherents of Lowe and Horsman, seceders in 1866 from the Reform Party. John Bright said of these members that they retired to the cave of Adullam, and tried to gather round…Brewer's: Amiel
(3 syl.). A form of the name of Eliam (friend of God). In Dryden's satire of Absalom and Achitophel it is meant for Sir Edward Seymour, Speaker of the House of Commons. (2 Samuel xxii. 34…Brewer's: Leglin-girth
To cast a leglin-girth. To have “a screw loose;” to have made a faux pas; to have one's reputation blown upon. A legin-girth is the lowest hoop of a leglin or milk-pail. (See…Brewer's: Grimes
(Peter). This son of a steady fisherman was a drunkard and a thief. He had a boy whom he killed by illusage. Two others he made away with, but was not convicted for want of evidence. As no…Trending
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