Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (2 May 1810 in Norwich – 6 March 1897 in Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire), was a British lexicographer and the author of A Guide to...

members reported a persistent, sickening sulphur smell afterward. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, in his 1864 US edition of A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of...

Knowledge of Things Familiar – also by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer This edition is opened by a reproduction of the Brewer's autographed "Preface to the New and...

Familiar, also known as The Guide to Science or Brewer's Guide to Science, is a book by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer presenting explanations for common phenomena...

to kill care. The proverb remained the same until at least 1898. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer included this definition in his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:...

rabid dog bite by placing hair from the dog in the bite wound. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland...

Schuster, 2004, ISBN 0-7432-5812-6 John Ayto, Ian Crofton & Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable, page 78, Weidenfeld &...

Classical Antiquity", pp.208 - 21 "Similes". www.englishdaily626.com. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Cambridge University 2014, p.32...

many 19th century magazines and books, sometimes attributed to Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Daniel Clement Colesworthy, or Frances S. Osgood, but the earliest...

Judas were paid in pieces of silver for their respective deeds. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer notes in his A Guide to Scripture History: The Old Testament that...

Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Religion, page 958. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (2009). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Chambers Harrap Publishers...

from the place where the king's victims were buried. Citations Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1895, p. 315 "EBK: King Marc of...

Oxford: B.A.R., 1980–81, ISBN 0-86054-097-9, p. 172, note 43. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and Marion Harland, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the...

Louis Garaud Cartoon showing France in the guise of Johnny Crappeau Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (2001). The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Wordsworth...

on most altars, and salt is used in many rituals. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (27 September 2013). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable 19th Edition. Quercus...

 102. LCCN 60-15686. Sainthood in the Later Middle Ages; By Andri Vauchez The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles; By Ebenezer Cobham Brewer...

A Dictionary of Miracles: Imitative, Realistic and Dogmatic" by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer Fiegl, Amanda. "A Brief History of Gingerbread". Smithsonian Magazine...

pp. 65-66 Character Sketches Of Romance, Fiction And The Drama, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Marion Harland, The Minerva Group, Inc., 2004, ISBN 1-4102-1335-8...

ISBN 1-86189-185-7. Mirzah in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ISBN 1-84022-310-3. MI'RZA in Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary...

been used in brewing beer, to gauge the heat of the brewing vat. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer writes that rule of thumb means a "rough measurement". He says that...

lotus Lotus-eaters Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, page 526, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer Elizabeth Washington Wirt, Flora's dictionary Richard Folkard, Plant...

 456. Needham 1986, p. 467. "Dictionary of phrase and fable" By Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Published by Cassell and Company LTD, 1900 "Minie Ball". HistoryNet...

Tonttu (Nordic countries) Tréo-Fall (Brittany) Jetins (Brittany) Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, rev. ed. London: Cassell, 1905...

421 BC – AD 2007: Peace, Birds and Frogs. Oxford: Legenda. p. 1. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer. "Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1"...

Bloomsbury Academic. p. 24. ISBN 9781851093557. Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (2001). Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, p. 29...

English general Jim Breen (Australia, born 1947) Japanese and English Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (UK, 1810–1897) English Francis Brinkley (Ireland/UK/Japan, 1841–1912)...

Chronicle 1832 Parthenius, 30 Etymologicum Magnum 502.45 under Keltoi Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, p. 230 Quintus Smyrnaeus...

ISBN 978-0-19-885801-0. Country Life. Country Life, Limited. 2009. p. 124. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (March 2004). Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama:...

Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar, a book by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, published around 1840, presenting explanations for common phenomena...

Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon". Heiligenlexikon.de. Retrieved 2011-06-27. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, A Dictionary of Miracles: Imitative, Realistic, and Dogmatic (Chatto...