A wild-flower. The word is used by Tennyson to mean a pretty damsel in ragged clothes. “The prince Hath picked a ragged robin from the hedge.” Tennyson: Idylls of the King; Enid.…
Drops of molten glass, consolidated by falling into water. Their form is that of a tadpole. The thick end may be hammered pretty smartly without its breaking, but if the smallest portion…
Daughter of Zion. Jerusalem or its inhabitants. The city of David stood on Mount Zion. Zion and Jerusalem were pretty much in the same relation to each other as Old and New Edinburgh. (…
Villagers. This very pretty Anglo-Saxon word is worth restoring. (Thorpe, Anglo-Saxon, a village.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894ThothThorns A B C D E…
Art meets science, or vice versa by Holly Hartman Did you ever hear that "oil and water don't mix"? Here's groovy proof. You will need: vegetable oil or baby oil water food…
at one time, meant a female infant, and was the correlative of boy. “Mercy on `s! A barne, a very pretty barne. A boy or a child, I wonder?” —Shakespeare: Winter's Tale, iii. 3. Source:…
Impoverished of everything. De Quincey says that Richard Bentley, after his lawsuit with Dr. Colbatch, “must have been pretty well cleaned out.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E…
Limestone rocks; so called from the Jura; the Jurassic period is the geological period when these rocks were formed. Our oolitic series pretty nearly corresponds with the Jurassic.…
(To). To create a disturbance. “A pretty kick up” is a great disturbance. The phrase “To kick up the dust” explains the other phrases. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
Death, the grave, execution. And forty pounds be theirs, a pretty sum, For sending such a rogue to kingdom come. Peter Pindar Subjects for Painters. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…
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