(A). A thread waxed with cobbler's wax and used for binding whips, fishing-rods, ropes, etc., for sewing boots and shoes, etc. It is waxed and used for…
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,
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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…
