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Brewer's: Colt's-tooth
The love of youthful pleasure. Chaucer uses the word “coltish” for skittish. Horses have at three years old the colt's-tooth. The allusion is to the colt's teeth of animals, a period of…Brewer's: Perillo Swords
Perillo is a “little stone,” a mark by which Julian del Rey, a famous armourer of Toledo and Zaragoza, authenticated the swords of his manufacture. All perillo swords were made of the…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: 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: Remember
The last injunction of Charles I., on the scaffold, to Bishop Juxon. A probable solution of this mysterious word is given in Notes and Queries (February 24th, 1894, p. 144). The substance…Brewer's: Renaissance Period
(The). That period in French history which began with the Italian wars in the reign of Charles VIII. and closed with the reign of Henri II. It was the intercourse with Italy, brought about…Brewer's: Rhyme
Neither rhyme nor reason. Fit neither for amusement nor instruction. An author took his book to Sir Thomas More, chancellor in the reign of Henry VIII, and asked his opinion. Sir Thomas…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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