An outcry made to give notice of danger. (Italian, all' arme, “to arms;” French, alarme.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Alarum BellAlarcon A B C D E F…
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(Italian, beautiful lady ). This name was given to the Deadly Nightshade, from a practice once common among ladies of touching their eyes with it to make the pupils large and lustrous.…
(Lady ). A profligate, whose conduct and conversation are a life-like photograph of the court “beauties” of Louis XV. (Fielding: Tom Jones.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
(Benedict ). The most wealthy farmer of Grand Pré ( Nova Scotia), and father of Evangeline. When the inhabitants of his village were exiled, and he was about to embark, he died of a broken…
Pig-iron refined, and converted into steel or malleable iron by passing currents of air through the molten metal, according to a process discovered by Sir H. Bessemer, and patented in 1856…
A cowardly, bragging captain, a sort of Bobadil (q.v.). (Beaumont and Fletcher: A King and no King.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BestBessie Bell and Mary…
is to render oneself agreeable by courteous conduct, suavity of manners, and fastidiousness of dress. The allusion is to the three Graces of classic mythology. Source: Dictionary of…
A braggart, a noisy hectorer. He is introduced by Alexander Passoni, in a mock-heroic poem called The Rape of the Bucket. Sacripant (in Orlando Furioso). King of Circassia, and a Saracen…
(2 syl.) is a pudding or “cake” made in a frying-pan. It was originally to be eaten after dinner, to stay the stomachs of those who went to be shriven. The Shrove-bell was called the…
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