by Ambrose Bierce PICTUREPIETYPIE -n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion. Cold pie was highly esteemed by the remains. - Rev. Dr. Mucker (in a funeral sermon…
To eat humble pie. To come down from a position you have assumed, to be obliged to take “a lower room.” “Umbles” are the heart, liver, and entrails of the deer, the huntsman's perquisites…
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Pie made of squabs—i.e. young pigeons; also a pie made of mutton, apples, and onions. Cornwall squab-pie, and Devon white-pot brings. And Leicester beans and bacon, fit for kings. King:…
(By the). Per tibicinem qm coram Mose modulatus est. This oath is from Tales in Blackwood [Magazine, May, 1838]: Father Tom and the Pope (name of the tale). (Notes and Queries, April 2,…
(By). We meet with cock's bones, cock's wounds, cock's mother, cock's body, cock's passion, etc., where we can have no doubt that the word is a minced oath, and stands for the sacred name…
A pie made of umbles—i.e. the liver, kidneys, etc., of a deer. These “refuse” were the perquisites of the keeper, and umble-pie was a dish for servants and inferiors. “The keeper hath the…
Prim and precise order. The origin of this phrase is still doubtful. Some suggest cap-à-pie, like a knight in complete armour. Some tell us that apples made into a pie are quartered and…
PIPER William , a Representative from Pennsylvania;
born at Bloody Run (now Everett), Bedford County, Pa., January 1, 1774;
commanded a regiment during the War of 1812;
adjutant general of…
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