(g soft). The cut of his gib. (See Jib.) To hang one's gib. To be angry, to pout. The lower lip of a horse is called its gib, and so is the beak of a male salmon. Source: Dictionary of…
A cat; a vile poet. La Fontaine in several of his fables gives this name to the cat. Rabelais under this name satirises Guillaume Crétin, an old French poet in the reigns of Charles VIII…
A wild Irish plunderer; so called from his being armed with a rapary or half-pike. (Irish rappire, a robber.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RappeeRaphael…
Muffins is pain-moufflet. Du Cange describes the panis mofletus as bread of a more delicate nature than ordinary, for the use of prebends, etc., and says it was made fresh every day.…
or Sephalica. A plant in the blossoms of which the bees sleep. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Nimble as a Cat on a hot Bake-stoneNile A B C D E F G H…
An old Tab. An old maid; an old tabby or cat. So called because old maids usually make a cat their companion. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894TabardT-Rule A…
Lion's tail. Lions, according to legend, wipe out their footsteps with their tail, that they may not be tracked. Twisting the lion's tail. (See Twisting.) He has no more tail than a Manx…
from a Hebrew word meaning to cleanse, so called from its abstersive qualities. The Romans wreathed the brows of criminals with tamarisk. The Arabs make cakes called manna of the hardened…
(3 syl.). A corruption of Timour Lengh (Timour the Lame), one of the greatest warrior-kings that ever lived. Under him Persia became a province of Tartary. He modestly called himself Ameer…
(Master). “A foolish gentleman” in Measure for Measure. Lord Froth. A pompous coxcomb in The Double Dealer, by Congreve. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
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