A dwarf. In fabulous history the pigmies were a nation of dwarfs devoured by cranes. (See Pygmies.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894PigsneyPightel A B C D…
(The). The Greek upsilon, “They placed themselves in the order and figure of , the letter of Pythagoras, as cranes do in their flight.” —Rabelais; Pantagruel, iv. 33. Source: Dictionary…
(2 syl.). A nation of dwarfs on the banks of the Upper Nile. Every spring the cranes made war upon them and devoured them. They cut down every corn-ear with an axe. When Hercules went to…
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(The). “O Philoxenos, Philoxenos, why were you not Prometheus?” Prometheus was the mythological creator of man, and Philoxenos was a great epicure, whose great and constant wish was to…
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A hangman; a temporary crane to remove goods from the hold of a vessel. So called from Derrick, the Tyburn hangman early in the seventeenth century, who for more than a hundred years gave…
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