The old notion is, that if it should rain on this bishop's day, the 15th of July, not one of forty days following will be without a shower.
·noun One canonized by the church. II. Saint ·vi To act or live as a saint. III. Saint ·noun One o...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
One separated from the world and consecrated to God; one holy by profession and by covenant; a belie...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
A piece of spoilt timber in a coach-maker's shop, like a saint, devoted to the flames. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·noun An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes. ...
·noun A follower of the Count de St. Simon, who died in 1825, and who maintained that the principle ...
·noun The principles, doctrines, or practice of the Saint-Simonians; — called also Saint- Simonism....
·add. ·noun A system of socialism in which the state owns all the property and the laborer is entitl...
A holiday most religiously observed by journeymen shoemakers, and other inferior mechanics. a profan...
On the north side of Cannon Street at No.113, at the south-west corner of St. Swithin's Lane (P.O. D...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
·- A Mormon; — the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole ...
Never, there being no saint of that name: tomorrow-come-never, when two Sundays come together. ...
An ox; that Evangelist being always represented with an ox. ...
The Anas mollissima; the eider, or great black and white duck of the Farne Islands. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
See compasant. ...