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Brewer's: Footing
He is on good footing with the world. He stands well with the world. This is a French phrase, Être sur un grand pied dans le monde. “Grand pied” means “large foot,” and the allusion is to…Brewer's: Highness
The Khedive of Egypt is styled “Your Highness,” or “His Highness;” The children of kings and queens, “Your Royal Highness,” or “His Royal Highness;” The children of emperors, “Your…Brewer's: Fire-drake
or Fire-dragon. A fiery serpent, an ignis-fatuus of large proportions, superstitiously believed to be a flying dragon keeping guard over hid treasures. “There is a fellow somewhat near the…Brewer's: Merry Andrew
So called from Andrew Borde, physician to Henry VIII., etc. To vast learning he added great eccentricity, and in order to instruct the people used to address them at fairs and other…Brewer's: Pick
To throw; same as pitch. The instrument that throws the shuttle is called the picker. (Anglo-Saxon, pyc-an, to throw, pull, or pick.) “Ill pick you o'er the pales.” Shakespeare: Henry…Brewer's: Limbus Patrum
The half-way house between earth and heaven, where the patriarchs and prophets, after death, await the coming of Messiah. According to the Roman Catholic notion, this is the “hell,” or…Brewer's: Queen Anne's Bounty
A fund created out of the firstfruits and tenths, which were part of the papal exactions before the Reformation. The firstfruits are the whole first year's profits of a clerical living,…Brewer's: Tower of London
The architect of this remarkable building was Gundulphus, Bishop of Rochester, who also built or restored Rochester keep, in the time of William I. In the Tower lie buried Anne Boleyn and…Brewer's: Trencher
A good trencher-man. A good eater. The trencher is the platter on which food is cut (French, trancher, to cut), by a figure of speech applied to food itself. He that waits for another's…Brewer's: Tyburn
is Twa-burne, the “two rivulets;” so called because two small rivers met in this locality. Tyburn's triple tree. A gallows, which consists of two uprights and a beam resting on them.…Trending
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