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She was the daughter of Heaven and Earth (Uranus and Ge). To the Immortals every one A portion was assigned of all that is; But chief Mnemosyne did Maia's son Clothe in the light of his loud melodies. SHELLEY: Homer's Hymn to Mercury, Ixxfii. Moabite Stone, The. An ancient stele^ bearing the oldest extant Semitic inscription, now in the Louvre, Pans.
It included Thales, Anaxi- mander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, and Anaxag- oras; and the great advance they made was the recognition that matter, motion, and physical causation were themselves manifestations of the Absolute Reality.
No trust at all. "Grceca fides" was with the Romans no faith at all.
Pliny says it averted witchcraft, and availed in giving an enemy a shrewder blow.
Doctor Green; i.e. grass: a physician, or rather medicine, found very successful in curing most disorders to which horses are liable. My horse is not well, I shall send him to Doctor Green.
Ignorant, not wide-awake, inexperienced.—Shakspeare. "Do you see any GREEN in my eye?" ironical question in a dispute.
Feeling nauseous or queasy
completely inexperienced or naive
An attorney: those gentlemen carry their clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they have no deeds to carry, frequently fill them with an old pair of breeches, or any other trumpery, to give themselves the appearance of business.
A stretch of country around a city or large town that has been set aside to be kept open and free from all building except within certain limits.
A natural talent for gardening
To give a girl a green gown; to tumble her on the grass.
A nautical phrase for inferior sailors. See ABLE-BODIED SEAMAN, and cp. GREENHORN below.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
The 39th Foot, so called from the colour of their facings. Now the- Dorsetshire, and the facings are white.
This common public-house sign probably represents either a Jack-in-the-Greerr (#.v.), or a game-keeper, who used at one time- to be dressed m green.
Men of Vermont, U.S.A. — a term m use since 1775. Vermont, or Vert Mont, so called from its forest-covered mountains, was formed from the states of New Hampshire and New York in 1777, largely through the action of its farmers who agitated for an independent state of their own, and were called the Green Mountain Boys.
Petroleum.
a healthy and active old age
The common waiting-room beyond the stage at a theatre for the performers ; so called because at one time the walls were coloured green to relieve the eyes affected by the glare of the stage lights.
The disease of maids occasioned by celibacy.
a state of being environmentally friendly
Money.
A natural ability to grow plants
In old legal practice an estreat (certified extract from an official record> formerly delivered to the sheriff by the Ex- chequer for levy. It was under the seal of the court, which was impressed upon green wax.
A fresh, simple, or uninitiated person.
The paper money issued in the United States during the war. The term was at first applied only to the notes for small amounts, which were backed with green, but eventually the one word represented all descriptions of what is now known in America as "currency."
Better opportunities or situations elsewhere
Marijuana.
(Robert) Notable Discovery of Coosnage, now daily practised by sundry lewd persons called Conie-catchers and Crosse-biters. Plainly laying open those pernitious sleights that hath brought many ignorant men to confusion. Written for the general benefit of all Gentlemen, Citizens, Apprentices, Country Farmers, and Yeomen, that may hap to fall into the company of such coosening companions. With a delightful discourse of the coosnage of Colliers, 4to, with woodcuts. Printed by John Wolfe, 1591.
An inexperienced young man.
A novice on the town, an undebauched young fellow, just initiated into the society of bucks and bloods.
An inexperienced person, a spoon. Sometimes an Irishman.
Retailers of sand from the pits at and about Greenwich, in Kent: perhaps they are styled barbers, from their constant shaving the sandbanks.
Retailers of sand; so called because the inhabitants of Greenwich used to "shave the pits" in the neighbourhood to supply London with sand.
The stars used by astrono- mers for the lunar computations in the nautical ephemeris.
Mean time for the meridian of Greenwich, i.e.
Plain-song; a mediaeval system of church music, so called because it was introduced into the service by Gregory the Great (600).
The epoch or day on which the Gregorian calendar commenced in October, 1582.
The first] form of the refecting telescope, invented by James Gregory (1638-75), professor of mathematics at St Andrews (1663).
The gallows: so named from Gregory Brandon, a famous finisher of the law; to whom Sir William Segar, garter king of arms (being imposed on by Brooke, a herald), granted a coat of arms.
The gallows; so named from Gregory Brandon and his son, Robert (who
The civil year, according to the correction introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. See CALENDAR.
The Authentic Doctor. Robert Holcot (d .1349), an English Domini- can and divine.
The neck.
Prisca. Emblemati- cally or in heraldry the eagle is a charge of great honour. It was called the Bird of Jove y the Romans, and borne on their army standards. France (under the Empires), Austria, Prussia and Russia adopted it as a royal or imperial emblem.
The poet of Greta Hall. Southey, who lived at Greta Hall, in the Vale of Kes- wick (1774-1843).
Runaway matches. In Scotland, all that is required of contracting parties is a mutual declaration before witnesses of their willingness to marry, so that elopers reaching Gretna, a hamlet near the village of Springfield, Dumfriesshire, 8 miles N.W. of Carlisle, and just across the border, could (up to 1856) get legally married without either licence, banns, or priest. The declaration was generally made to a blacksmith.
Unclear.
Earthen jugs formerly used in public house for drawing ale: they had the figure of a man with a large beard stamped on them; whence probably they took the name: see BEN JONSON'S PLAYS, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR, &c. &c. Dutch earthen jugs, used for smuggling gin on the coasts of Essex and Suffolk, are at this time called grey beards.
Brain cells, used to describe thinking or memory
A City of London alderman who has passed the chair; so called because his official robe is furred with grey amis.
The name given to Francois Leclerc du Tremolay (1577-1638), or Pere Joseph, as he was called, the Capuchin agent and trusty counsellor of Cardinal Richelieu. He owed his sobriquet to the fact that his influence and his policy inspired the Cardinal's actions, and that he was, as it were, a shadowy cardinal in the background.
Franciscans fa.v.). Black Friars are Dominicans, and White Friars Carmelites.
The grey mare is the better horse; said of a woman who governs her husband.
intelligence or brainpower
A farmer who rents the tithes of the rector or vicar.
The social and political influence of older people