The Anglo-Saxon tan means a twig, and twigs smeared with birdlime were used for catching small birds, who were “en-tangled” or twigged. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham…
Under ArcturusMadison CaweinI"I belt the morn with ribboned mist;
With baldricked blue I gird the noon,
And dusk with purple, crimson-kissed,
White-buckled with the hunter's-moon."These…
American Indians. When Columbus landed at Cat Island, he thought that he had landed on one of the Indian islands, and in this belief gave the natives the name of Indians. India proper is…
Alphonso of CastileI, Alphonso, live and learn,
Seeing Nature go astern.
Things deteriorate in kind;
Lemons run to leaves and rind;
Meagre crop of figs and limes;
Shorter days and harder…
(2 syl.). means properly “to knock down.” (French, abattre, whence a battue, i.e., wholesale destruction of game; O.E. a beátan.) Abate, in horsemanship, is to perform well the downward…
Abderi′tan A native of Abdera, a maritime city of Thrace. The Abderitans were proverbial for stupidity, hence the phrase, “You have no more mind than an Abderite.” Yet the city gave birth…
is a dog that “takes the earth,” or unearths his prey. Dog Tray is merely an abbreviation of the same word. Terrier is also applied to the hole which foxes, badgers, rabbits, and so on,…
Shakespeare calls it “the baleful mistletoe” (Titus Andronicus, ii. 3), in allusion to the Scandinavian story that it was with an arrow made of mistletoe that Balder was slain. (See…
The 2000 Academy Awards were presented March 25, 2001 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.Best PictureChocolat, David Brown, Kit Golden, and Leslie Holleran, ProducersCrouching Tiger,…
Aug. 2, Toronto, Canada: an Air France Airbus A340, Flight 358, skidded off the runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport in heavy thunderstorms. All of the 309 aboard managed to…
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