A jovial, true-hearted store-farmer, in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering. Also a hardy hairy short-legged terrier. “From this dog descended Davidson of Hyndlee's breed, the original Dandie…
A village schoolmaster and scholar, poor as a church mouse, and modest an a girl. He cites Latin like a porcus literarum, and exclaims “Prodigious!” (Scott: Guy Mannering.) (See Stilling…
(A) A cow without horns. “`That,' said John with a broad grin, was Grizzel chasing the humble cow out of the close.” —Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering, chap. ix. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…
Hens that a tenant pays to his landlord, as a sort of rent in kind (ill-fed hens). (Guy Mannering, v.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894KaiserKailyal A B C…
(3 syl.). French. Means literally an escape [from restraint]; hence a spree, lark, or prank. (Spanish, escapar, escapada.) “His second escapade was made for the purpose of visiting the…
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Given to the player who leads the league in points scored and named after the former Boston Bruins general manager-coach. First presented in 1948, names of prior leading scorers have been…
Uncle TeddyFor a week Dan only moved from bed to sofa; a long week and a hard one, for the hurt foot was very painful at times, the quiet days were very wearisome to the active lad, longing…
