The boat of Wato or Wade, the father of Weland, and son of Vilkinr, in which he crossed over the nine-ell deep, called Granasund, with his son upon his shoulders. (Scandinavian mythology…
ProductsThe magnitude of the charge of such an estate can be better understood when the condition of a Virginia plantation is realized. Before the Revolution practically everything the…
A generic name for a hard-working, poor, but contented needlewoman. The name was devised by Emile Barateau, and rendered popular by his song so called. Entendez-vous un oiseau familier? C'…
Parler à la barrette (French). To give one a thump o' the head. The word barrette means the cap worn by the lower orders. “Et moi, je pourrais bien parler à ta barrette.” Molière: L'Avare…
Mahomet's favourite white mule was Daldah. (See Fadda .) To shoe one's mule. To appropriate part of the money committed to one's trust. This is a French locution- “Ferrer la mule- i.e. I'…
(A). A sea-devil, in Scandinavian mythology, who eats sailors. “My brother saw a nicor in the Northern sea. It was three fathoms long, with the body of a bison-bull, and the head of a cat…
To wear the breeches. Said of a woman who usurps the prerogative of her husband. Similar to The grey mare is the better horse. (See Grey. ) The phrase is common to the French, Dutch,…
He has a cheveril conscience. One that will easily stretch like cheveril or kid leather. “Oh, here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad!” —Shakespeare:…
A fay, named Vivienne, who plunged with the infant Lancelot into a lake. This lake was a kind of mirage, concealing the demesnes of the lady “en la marche de la petite Bretaigne.” (See…
(Anglo-Saxon, el-boga, el = an ell, boga = a bow.) A knight of the elbow. A gambler. At one's elbow. Close at hand. To elbow one's way in. To push one's way through a crowd; to get a…
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