(2 syl.). The Devonshire Robin Goodfellows; said to be the spirits of infants who have died before baptism. The Pixy monarch holds his court like Titania, and sends his subjects on their…
(A). A pixy, puck, or fairy. To colt-pixy is to take what belongs to the pixies, and is specially applied to the gleaning of apples after the crop has been gathered in; these apples were…
(Devonshire), Poakeledden (Worcestershire). Misled into bogs and ditches. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Place aux DamesPixies A B C D E F G H I J…
Make way for the ladies; give place to the ladies; the ladies first, if you please. Indirectly it means women beat the men hollow in every contest. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…
A fire-arm which, by means of revolving barrels, can be fired several times without intermission. This instrument was patented by Colonel Samuel Colt, U.S., in 1835. Source: Dictionary…
An allowance of victuals over and above bread and wine. Anthony du Pinet, in his translation of Pliny, applies the term over and over again to figs and beans. The word originally comes…
(A). A piece of knotted rope eighteen inches long for the special benefit of ship boys; a cat-o'-nine-tails. “Look alive there, lads, or as sure as my name is Sam Weston I'll give the colt…
The Silent FolkCharles Wharton StorkOh, praise me not the silent folk;
To me they only seem
Like leafless, bird-abandoned oak
And muffled, frozen stream.I want the leaves to talk and tell
The…
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