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Brewer's: Hash
(A). A mess, a muddle; as, “a pretty hash he made of it.” A hash is a mess, and a mess is a muddle. I'll soon settle his hash for him. I will soon smash him up; ruin his schemes; “give…Brewer's: High Tea
The meal called tea served with cold meats, vegetables, and pastry, in substitution of dinner. “A well-understood `high tea' should have cold roast beef at the top of the table, a cold…Math & Science Features
Recent Features Biography | Business | Entertainment | Health & Science | History & Gov't | Society & Culture | Sports | United States | World Jump to: A…Brewer's: Macaronic Verse
Verses in which foreign words are ludicrously distorted and jumbled together, as in Porson's lines on the threatened invasion of England by Napoleon. (Lingo drawn for the Militia.) So…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound Scene 3.2:
by Percy Bysshe Shelley SCENE 3.1: SCENE 3.3: SCENE 3.2: THE MOUTH OF A GREAT RIVER IN THE ISLAND ATLANTIS. OCEAN IS DISCOVERED RECLINING NEAR THE SHORE; APOLLO STANDS BESIDE HIM. OCEAN…Brewer's: Patch
A fool; so called from the motley or patched dress worn by licensed fools. “What a pied ninny's this! thou scurvy patch!” Shakespeare: The Tempest, iii. 2. Cross-patch. An ill-tempered…Brewer's: Kit-cat Club
A club formed in 1688 by the leading Whigs of the day, and held in Shire Lane (now Lower Serle's Place) in the house of Christopher Cat, a pastry-cook, who supplied the mutton pies, and…Words of Three Letters
Try the Find a Word: Crossword Search Adherent, ISTAgain, BISAge, ERAAntelope: African, GNU, KOBApricot: Japanese, UMEArticle (German), DAS, DEM, DEN, DER, DES, DIE, EIN (French), LES, UNE (…Timeline of Kennedy Tragedies
by Beth Rowen Read about the many tragedies that have struck the Kennedy family, including John Kennedy's assassination and the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in a…Fair Play
by Alicia Potter In State Fair, the 1933 movie musical, the mother aims to win the bake-off; the father, the hog competition; and as for the teens, they're looking for love. Sixty-five years…Trending
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