or Lilith (Rabbinical mythology). The Talmudists say that Adam had a wife before Eve, whose name was Lilis. Refusing to submit to Adam, she left Paradise for a region of the air. She still…
Notary-public of Grand Pré (Nova Scotia), the father of twenty children and 159 grandchildren. (Longfellow: Evangeline.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
The window of an attic standing out from the slope of the roof. (O. French, dormeor =a sleeping room formerly fitted with windows of this kind.) “Thatched were the roofs, with dormer…
A kitchen dresser, the French dressoir, a sideboard, verb dresser, to raise, set up. “The pewter plates on the dresser.” Longfellow: Evangeline, i. 2. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 26, 1806June 28, 1806June 27, 1806 Friday June 27th 1806. We collected our horses early and set out. the road still continued on the heights…
The Question: How many songs did Bing Crosby record? The Answer: According to Steven Lewis' Bing Crosby Internet Museum, Crosby recorded more than 1,700…
(The) A Roman Catholic devotion in honour of the Incarnation, instituted by Urban II. It consists of three texts, each said as versicle and response, and followed by the salutation of…
Aca′dia i.e., Nova Scotia, so called by the French from the river Shubenacadie. The name was changed in 1621. In 1755 the old French inhabitants were driven into exile by order of George II…
To braid St. Catharine's tresses. To live a virgin. “Thou art too fair to be left to braid St. Catharine's tresses” Longfellow Evangeline. Catharine (Knights of St), 1714. A Russian…
A house where paupers are supported at the public expense; a poor-house. Also a house set apart for the aged poor free of rent. “Only, alas! the poor who had neither friends nor attendants…
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