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According to Ptolemy, the ninth orb, identified by some with "the waters which were above the firmament" (Gen. i, 7); it was placed between the "primum mobile " and the firmament or sphere of the fixed stars and was held to have a shivering movement that interfered with the regular motion of the stars.
In Scandinavia it was anciently customary at feasts to drink from cups of mead, and vow to perform some great deed worthy of the song of a skald. There were four cups: one to Odin, for victory; one to Freyja, for a good year; one to Niord, for peace; and one to Bragi, for celebration of the dead in poetry.
There is no food or money left.
One who is always on the move and has no abiding place is said to be "cursed with the curse of Cain.
The nine of dia- monds. It may refer to the arms of Dalrymple, Earl of Stair — viz. or, on a saltire argent, nine lozenges of the first. The earl was justly held in abhorrence for the massacre of Glencoe, and he was also detested in Scotland for his share in bringing about the Union with England in 1707.
An event or situation comes to an end
Businesses should prioritize customer satisfaction
The contour or expression of his face A sailor's phrase. The cut of a jib or foresail of a ship indicates her character, hence a sailor says of a suspicious vessel, he "does not like the cut of her jib.
An afternoon tea party, with dancing. Theagenes and Chariclea (the aj' e nez, char i kle' a). The hero and heroine of an erotic romance in Greek by Heliodorus, Bishop of Trikka (4th century).
The earlier centuries of the Middle Ages (<7.v.); so called because of the intellectual darkness thought to be characteristic of the period.
Africa; concerning which the world was so long "in the dark," and which, also, is the land of dark races.
The most difficult moment often precedes a resolution or improvement
English proverb; full definition pending editorial review.
The procla- mation of James II in 1687 which annulled religious tests and the penal laws against
You are a very demon. What the deuce is the matter ?
a person or thing that causes trouble
The sign of more than one old public-house in the neighbourhood of Fleet
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Said when a good slanging match is in progress; it is also the name of a game in which a top (the "devil") is spun among a number of wooden men ("tailors") and knocks down as many as possible.
The devil and some- thing even worse. Dam (#.v.) here may mean either mother (the usual meaning), or -wife. Quotations may be adduced in support of either of these interpretations, and it is to be noted that frequently (cp. Paradise Lost, ii) there is no differentiation. Also, Rabbinical tradition relates that Lilith was the wife of Adam, but was such a vixen that Adam could not live with her, and she became the devil's dam.
A phrase from late mediaeval magic; it was said that the devil had a school at Toledo, or at Salamanca, where the students, when they had made a certain progress in their studies, were obliged to run through a subterranean hall, and the last man was seized by the devil and became his imp.
Idle people are more likely to get into trouble or mischief
The Scandinavian form of Dublin was Divehn[a], and the Latin
Satan deceives people with false promises
Recognized English idiom; full definition pending editorial review.
Wicked people often seem to prosper or be protected.
A carping or adverse critic. From the Advocatus diaboli, the person appointed to contest the claims of a candidate for canonization before a papal court. He advances all he can against the candidate, and is opposed by the Advocatus dei (God's Advocate), who says all he can in support of the proposal.
Part of the current of the Bosporus is so called, from its great rapidity.
A small door in the north wall of some old churches, which used to be opened at baptisms and communions to "let the devil out " The north used to be known as "the devil's side." where Satan and his legion lurked to catch the unwary.
A ravine in the South Downs, Brighton. The legend is, that St.
A Cornish tin-mine worked by the Romans.
A name of the Peak Cavern, in Derbyshire.
Two vast caverns separated by a huge pillar of natural rock in the mainland of the Zetland Islands.
A deep combe on the S.W. side of Hmdhead Hill, two miles N. of Haslemere, in Surrey. A similar dell in Mangerton Mountain, near Killarney, has the same name.
Cromer Bay. So called from its danger to navigation.
A great rectangular granite obelisk, over 600 feet in height, in the Black Hills, Dakota, U.S A.
Jousts instituted by King Arthur, "who by that name had named them, since a diamond was the prize." The story, as embroidered by Tennyson in his Lancelot and Elaine from Malory (Bk. xviii, ch. 9-20) is that Arthur found nine diamonds from the crown of a slain knight and offered them as the prize of nine jousts in successive years.
An annual race for amateur single-scullers taking place at the Henley Royal Regatta, and first rowed in 1844. The prize is a pair of crossed silver sculls not quite a foot in length, surmounted by an imi- tation wreath of laurel, and having a pendant of diamonds. It passes from winner to winner; but each winner receives a silver cup as a souvenir.
The Middlesex Regiment, the 57th Foot, which was raised in 1755. At the Battle of Albuera, May 16th, 1811, the regiment was hard pressed; Colonel Inglis (later General Sir William) who was badly wounded, refused to be taken to the rear, but lay where he fell, crying, "Die hard, men, die hard!
A cook's shop, under Furnival's Inn, where many attornies clerks, and other inferior limbs of the law, take out the wrinkles from their bellies. DIP is also a punning name for a tallow-chandler.
Simon were so called also, because they maintained the perfectibility of human nature without the aid of grace.
Economics; a name given to it by Carlyle : — The social science — not a "gay science," but a rueful — which finds the secret of this Universe in "supply and demand" . . . what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science. — CARLYLE : On the Nigger Question (1849).
The female side of a family; a branch descended from the female side.
The Tasman Sea, separating Australia and New Zealand.
The notion that kings reign by direct ordinance of God, quite apart from the will of the people. This phrase was much used m the 17th century on account of the pretensions of the Stuart kings; and the idea arose from the Old Testament, where kings are called "God's anointed,** because they were God's vicars on earth, when the Jews changed their theocracy for a monarchy. The right divine of kings to govern wrong.
Diogenes (412-323 B.C.). When Alexander went to see him the young King of Macedonia introduced himself with these words: "I am Alexander, surnamed the Great," to which the philosopher replied: 4*And I am Diogenes, surnamed the Dog." The Athenians raised to his memory a pillar of Parian marble, surmounted by a dog. (See CYNIC.
So the Laplanders call the bear which "has the strength of ten men and the wit of twelve.
The doge of Venice, on Ascension Day, used to throw a ring into the sea from the ship Bucentaur (q.v.\ to denote that the Adriatic was subject to the republic of Venice as a wife is subject to her husband. See DOGE.
Criticism or opposition has no effect on progress
The horrors of war, especially famine, sword, and fire. And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With At6 by his side, come hot from hell. Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war.
A situation can have a reciprocal effect on both parties involved.
Greece, Doris being a part of Greece. Through all the bounds Of Doric land.
Pastoral poetry. Everything Doric was very plain, but cheerful, chaste, and solid.
A translation of the Vulgate, made by English Catholic scholars in France for the use of English boys designed for the Catholic priesthood.
The English garrison and all its provisions in Douglas Castle, Lanark, seized by "the Good*' Lord James Douglas, in 1307.
A ballad in Scott's Border Minstrelsy, telling how Lord William steals away Lady Margaret Douglas and is pursued by her father and two brothers. A fight ensues; the father and his two sons are sore wounded; Lord William, also wounded, creeps to his mother's house and there dies; and the lady dies next morning.
The train away from London or the local centre, in contradistinction to the up train,, which goes to it. We also have the down platform, etc.
This wonderful egg was hatched by the joint labour of several serpents, and was buoyed into the air by their hissing. The person who caught it had to ride off at full speed, to avoid being stung to death; but the possessor was sure to prevail in every contest, and to be courted by those in power. Pliny says he had seen one of them, and that it was about as large as a moderate-sized apple.
The most successful of the London archers received this playful
St. Thomas Aquinas (1227-74), so named by his fellow students at Cologne, on account of his dullness and taciturnity. Alber- tus said: "We call him the dumb ox, but he will give one day such a bellow as shall be heard from one end of the world to the other.