Like an owl in an ivy-bush. Having a sapient, vacant look, as some persons have when in their cups; having a stupid vacant stare. Owls are proverbial for their judge-like solemnity, and…
or Ronion. A term of contempt to a woman. It is the French rogneux (scabby, mangy). “You hag, you baggage, you polecat, you ronyon! out, out!” —Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 2r…
(The). The screen between the nave and chancel, where the rood or crucifix was elevated. In some cases, on each side of the crucifix were either some of the evangelists or apostles, and…
The Guiser or Guisard was the ancient Scotch mummer, who played before Yule; hence our words guise, disguise, guy, etc. Guy (Thomas). Miser and philanthropist. He amassed an immense…
Monster bergs on the loose by Holly Hartman Antarctic icebergs RELATED LINKS See Pictures of B15!AntarcticaNorth Atlantic IcebergsSpotlight on the TitanicIn early 2000, an iceberg covering…
London, the end of Paternoster Row, where the monks finished their Pater Noster, on Corpus Christi Day, as they went in procession to St. Paul's Cathedral. They began in Paternoster Row…
(2 syl.). A people of Syria governed by emirs. Their faith is a mixture of the Pentateuch, the Gospel, the Koran, and Sufism. They offer up their devotions both in mosques and churches,…
A lame duck. A stock-jobber who will not, or cannot, pay his losses. He has to “waddle out of the alley like a lame duck.” Like a dying duck in a thunderstorm. Quite chop-fallen. To get…
The ricocheting or rebounding of a stone thrown from the hand to skim along the surface of a pond or river. To make ducks and drakes of one's money. To throw it away as stones with which…
A poor or vagabond parson. The use of hedge for vagabond, or very inferior, is common: as hedge-mustard, hedge-writer (a Grubb Street author), hedge-marriage (a clandestine one), etc.…
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