by Robert Burns It Was A' For Our Rightfu' KingInscription To Miss Graham Of FintryOde For General Washington's Birthday No Spartan tube, no Attic shell,
No lyre Aeolian I awake…
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(La) The sorcerer's wand. Armida is a sorceress in Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered. Baguette is a rod or wand. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894BahagniaBagatelle…
The officer in a church who carries the rod or mace. (Latin, verga, a wand.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894VernonVere Adeptus A B C D E F G H I J…
A method invented by Baron Napier, of Merchiston, for shortening the labour of trignometrical calculations. Certain figures are arranged on little slips of paper or ivory, and simply by…
or Shadoof. A contrivance in Egypt for watering lands for the summer crops. It consists of a long rod weighted at one end, so as to raise the bucket attached by a rope to the other end.…
(The). A cane or birch-rod. Orbilius was the schoolmaster who taught Horace, and Horace calls him Plagosus (the flogger). (Ep. ii. 71.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
