(Tom). An excellent sailor character in the naval story by Michael Scott, called Tom Cringle's Log, first published in Blackwood's Magazine. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E.…
Captain John Wooster's Wooster's Barn Tobiah and Rachel Captain Wooster's most important helps in the management of his farm and tavern were a colored man, named Tobiah, and his wife…
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How about the long-tailed beggar? A reproof given to one who is drawing the longbow too freely. The tale is that a boy who had been a short voyage pretended on his return to have forgotten…
He has got the gold of Tolosa. (Latin proverb meaning “His ill-gotten wealth will do him no good.”) Caepio, in his march to Gallia Narbonensis, stole from Toulous (Tolosa) the gold and…
A romping girl, formerly used for a harlot. (Saxon, tumbere, a dancer or romper; Danish, tumle, “to tumble about;” French, tomber; Spanish, tumbar; our tumble.) The word may either be…
has two meanings: As an adjective it means unknown, strange, unusual; but as an adverb it means very - as unco good, unco glad, etc. The “unco guid” are the pinchbeck saints, too good by…
Old Style means computed according to the unreformed calendar. New Style means computed according to the calendar reformed and corrected by Gregory XIII. in 1582. The New Style was…
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