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Men: College Soccer, 1997-98 Season
The combined 1997 first team All-America selections of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) and the 11 Soccer America MVPs. Holdovers from the combined 1996 All-America…The Physician Is Sent For
The Physician Is Sent ForMedicusque VocaturMeditationJohn Donne IT is too little to call man a little world; except God, man is a diminutive to nothing. Man consists of more pieces, more…2006 Teens' Favorite Young Adult Books
Teen readers across the country vote for the best from the American Library Association Harry Potter #1 on Teens' Top Ten Related Links Teen Read Week from the ALA Teens'…Brewer's: Bower
A lady's private room. (Anglo-Saxon bur, a chamber.) (To rhyme with flower.) (See Boudoir. ) “By a back staircase she slipped to her own bower.” —Bret Harte: Thankful Blossoms, part ii.…Brewer's: Bunny
A rabbit. So called from the provincial word bun, a tail. The Scotch say of the hare, “she cocks her bun.” Bunny, a diminutive of bun, applied to a rabbit, means the animal with the “…Brewer's: Spaie
A red deer of the third year. “The young male is called in the first yeere a calfe, in the second a broket, the third a spaie, the fourth a stagon or stag, the fifth a great stag, the…Brewer's: Romeo
(A). A devoted lover; a lady's man; from Romeo in Shakespeare's tragedy. (See Romeo and Juliet.) James in an evil hour went forth to woo Young Juliet Hart, and was her Romeo. Crabbe:…Brewer's: Advauncer
The second branches of a stag's horn. “In a hart the main horne itself they call the beame. The lowest antlier is called the brow-antlier; the next, roial; the next that, surroial; and…Brewer's: Bed-rock
American slang for one's last shilling. A miner's term, called in England the “stone-head,” and in America, the “Bed-rock,” the hard basis rock. When miners get to this bed the mine is…Brewer's: Lead
(pronounced lêd), the metal, was, by the ancient alchemists, called Saturn. (Anglo-Saxon, lead.) To strike lead. To make a good hit. “That, after the failure of the king, he should `…Trending
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