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Piper Laurie Biography
Piper Laurie(Rosetta Jacobs)actressBorn: 1/22/1932Birthplace: Detroit Early in her acting career, Laurie played lighthearted characters in costume dramas. For her first major role, in The Hustler (…stilt
(Encyclopedia) stilt, common name for some members of the family Recurvirostridae, shore birds including the avocet. Stilts, as their name implies, have the longest legs of any bird except the…betel
(Encyclopedia) betelbetelbēˈtəl [key], masticatory made from slices of betel palm seeds (called betel nuts) smeared onto a betel pepper leaf together with other aromatic flavorings and lime paste and…Brewer's: Pay
(sea term). To cover with pitch. (Latin, picare, to cover with pitch.) Here's the devil to pay, and no pitch hot. (See under Devil.) Pay (To). To discharge a debt. (French, payer.)…The Devil's Dictionary: Pie
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…Brewer's: Lamb-pie
A flogging. Lamb is a pun on the Latin verb lambo (to lick), and the word “lick” has been perverted to mean flog (see Lick); or it may be the old Norse lam (the hand), meaning hand-or slap…Brewer's: Humble Pie
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…Brewer's: Cap-a-pie
The general etymology is the French cap à pied, but the French phrase is de pied en cap. “Armed at all points exactly cap-a-pie.” Shakespeare: Hamlet, i. 2. “I am courtier, cap-a-pe…Brewer's: Cavalerie a Pied
The Zouaves (pronounce zwav) and Zephyrs of the French army are so called because of their fleetness and swiftness of foot. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…Brewer's: Cock and Pie
(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…Trending
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