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An Italian epic poem in twenty books, by Torquato Tasso (1 544-95). It was published in 1581, and was translated into English by Edward Fairfax in 1600. It tells the story of the First Crusade and the capture of Jerusalem by Godfrey of Bouillon, 1099.
The city of David stood on Mount Zion. In Pilgrim's Progress Bunyan calls the Celestial City (i.e. Heaven) Mount Zion.
A donkey.
A smart jemmy fellow, a fopling.
The fancy name given by Goldsmith to Mary Horneck when he fell in love with her in 1769. Cp. JEMMY JESSAMY.
"to give a person JESSIE," to beat him soundly. See GAS.
Sly, evasive, equivocal. A jesuitical answer; an equivocal answer.
Sandals.
Wine.
An expression of surprise or shock
A lawyer. Autem jet; a parson.
Wealthy people who travel extensively and frequently
An over-reaching dealer, or hard, sharp fellow; an extortioner: the brokers formerly behind St. Clement's church in the Strand were called Jews by their brethren the taylors.
People of all backgrounds or faiths
A Jew street salesman.
A fungus that grows on the Judas-tree G?.v.); its name is due to a mis- translation of its Latin name, Auricula Judce, i.e. Judas's ear.
That's worth a Jew's eye; a pleasant or agreeable sight: a saying taken from Shakespeare.
Butcher's broom is so called, from .the popular notion that it formed the crown of thorns placed by the Jews on the Saviour's head.
Most valuable or prized part of something
Google.
In the book of Tpbit we are told how he travelled with Tobias into Media and back again, instructing him on the way how to marry Sara and to drive away the wicked spirit. Milton calls him the "sociable spirit " and the "affable archangel" (Paradise Lost, vii, 40), and it was he who was sent by God to advertise Adam of his danger.
Seltzer.
David danced in certain religious processions (2 Sam, vi, 14). The people sang and danced before the golden calf (Exod. xxxn, 19). And in the book of Psalms (cl, 4) we read, "Praise Him with the timbrel and dance." Miriam the, sister of Moses, after the passage of the Red Sea, was followed by all the women with timbrels and dances (Exod. xv, 20).
The Hadith was not allowed originally to be committed to writing, but the danger of the traditions being perverted or forgotten led to their being placed on record.
Hollywood.
Israel.
A showily-dressed woman of suspected character; derived, of course, from 2 Kings ix. 30, but applied in this sense from the time of the Puritans. Also, a hot-tempered female.
to be extremely tired or exhausted
A first-year man.—Dublin University.
The tongue.—Gipsy and Hindoo. (Tramps’ term.) Thence extended to mean language.
A method of deceiving seamen, by fixing a candle and lanthorn round the neck of a horse, one of whose fore feet is tied up; this at night has the appearance of a ship's light. Ships bearing towards it, run on shore, and being wrecked, are plundered by the inhabitants. This diabolical device is, it is said, practised by the inhabitants of our western coasts.
"in a JIFFY," in a moment.
A trick. A pleasant jig; a witty arch trick. Also a lock or door. The feather-bed jig; copulation.
A whipping-post. CANT.
A door; "dub the JIGGER," shut the door. Ancient cant, GYGER. In billiards, the bridge or rest is often termed the JIGGER. Also, the curtain of a theatre. JIGGER has many meanings, the word being applied to any small mechanical contrivance. Printers use the word for a little machine which guides the eye when copy is minute.
A jailer.
A term applied to a gaoler or turnkey.
Very tired.
A leg of mutton. From Fr. GIGOT.
Crazy.
A person skilled in many areas, but not exceptional in any one
A tricking woman, who encourages the addresses of a man whom she means to deceive and abandon.
A crowbar or house-breaking implement.
Rejected by a woman who has encouraged one's advances.
A popular Negro song and dance -of last century; introduced by T. D. Rice, the original "nigger minstrel," at Washington in 1835, and brought to the Adelphi, London, in the following year.
Railway coaches set apart lor the sole use of Negroes.
A condom.
A condom.
A condom.
The penis.
Leathern jacks tipped with silver, and hung with bells, formerly in use among fuddle caps. CANT.
A wild, thoughtless, rattling fellow.
Horse cosers, frequenting country fairs.
"by JINGO," a common form of oath, said to be a corruption of ST. GINGOULPH. Vide Halliwell.
Spirit or energy.
A person who talks nonsense or lies
Scotticism for a man or lover. As "John Anderson, my JO, John."
All women are equal when their social status is unknown
A piano.
Any robbery. To do a job; to commit some kind of robbery.