The Combined Gas LawChemistryGas LawsBoyle's Law: Why Compressed Gas Is SmallCharles's Law: The Incredible Imploding CanGay-Lussac's Law: Spray Paint + Campfire = Bad NewsThe Combined Gas LawAvogadro…
(Encyclopedia) Seely, John Edward Bernard, 1st baron of Mottistone, 1868–1947, British politician. He served in the South African War and entered Parliament as a Conservative in 1900. Having switched…
(Encyclopedia) Wheatstone, Sir CharlesWheatstone, Sir Charleshwētˈstōn, –stən [key], 1802–75, English physicist and inventor. He was professor at King's College, London, from 1834. A pioneer in…
(Encyclopedia) Yeardley, Sir GeorgeYeardley, Sir Georgeyärdˈlē [key], c.1587–1627, British colonial governor of Virginia (1618–21, 1626–27). He was shipwrecked (1609) in the Bermudas but managed to…
A collection of ecclesiastical laws which serve as the rule of church government. (See below.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894CanonicalCanon A B C D E…
The law of might or compulsion through fear of chastisement. Do it or get a hiding. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894ClueClub-land A B C D E F G H I…
from the Latin ager (land), is a law for making land the common property of a nation, and not the particular property of individuals. In a modified form, it means a redistribution of land…
The earliest system of marine law known to history; compiled by the Rhodians about 900 B.C. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894RhoneRhodian Bully A B C D E…
Bailiffs, sheriffs' officers, and other law menials. Any rough fellow employed to annoy another is the employer's myrmidon. The Myrmidons were a people of Thessaly who followed Achilles to…
Club law. A beating. The pun is on the word staff, a stick. (Italian, Braccésca licenza.) (Florio, p. 66.) (See above.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…
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