< Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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THE
DICTIONARY
OF
PHRASE AND FABLE.


Table of contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Chapters (not listed in original)
  • Wabun
  • Wabung Annung
  • Wade
  • Wade's Boat
  • Wadham College
  • Wadman
  • Wag Beards
  • Wages
  • Wages of Sin
  • Wagoner
  • Wahabites
  • Waifs and Strays
  • Waistcoat
  • Waiters upon Providence
  • Waits
  • Wake
  • “Waking a Witch.”
  • Walbrook Ward
  • Walcheren Expedition
  • Waldemar's Way
  • Waldenses
  • Waldo
  • Wales
  • Walk
  • Walk Chalks
  • Walk Spanish
  • Walk not in the Public Ways
  • Walk the Plank
  • Walk through One's Part
  • Walker
  • Walker's Bus
  • Walking Gentleman
  • Walking Sword
  • Walkyries
  • Wall
  • Wall
  • Wall-eyed
  • Walls have Ears
  • Wallace's Larder
  • Wallflower
  • Walloons
  • Wallop
  • Wallsend Coals
  • Walnut
  • Walnut Tree
  • Walpurgis Night
  • Walston
  • Walter Multon
  • Waltham Blacks
  • Walton
  • Walton Bridle
  • Wamba
  • Wan means thin
  • Wand
  • Wandering Jew
  • Wandering Willie or Willie Steenson
  • Wandering Wood
  • Wans Dyke
  • Want or Went
  • Wants
  • Wantley
  • Wapentake
  • Wapping Great
  • War of the Meal-sacks
  • War of the Roses
  • Ward
  • Ward
  • Ward Money, Ward-penny, or Wardage
  • Warden-pie
  • Ware
  • Warlock
  • Warm Reception
  • Warm as a Bat
  • Warming-pan
  • Warming-pan
  • Warning Stone
  • Warp
  • Warp and Weft, or Woof
  • Warrior Queen
  • Warwick
  • Warwick Lane
  • Warwolf
  • Washed Out
  • Washing
  • Washington of Columbia
  • Wassail
  • Wassailers
  • Wastlers
  • Wat
  • Wat's Dyke
  • Watch Night
  • Watch on Board Ship
  • Watchet
  • Water
  • Water
  • Water
  • Water-gall
  • Water-hole
  • Water-logged
  • Water-Poet
  • Water-sky
  • Water Stock
  • Water of Jealousy
  • Water Tasting like Wine
  • Waters
  • Waterloo Cup
  • Waterworks
  • Watling Street
  • Watteau
  • Wave
  • Wax-bond End
  • Way-bit
  • Ways and Means
  • Wayfaring Tree
  • Wayland
  • Wayland Smith's Cave
  • Wayland Wood
  • Wayleaves
  • Wayzgoose
  • We
  • We Three
  • We Left Our Country for Our Country's Good
  • Weak as Water
  • Weak-kneed Christian or Politician
  • Weapon Salve
  • Wear
  • Weasel
  • Weather Breeder
  • Weather-cock
  • Weather-eye
  • Weather-gage
  • Weather-glass
  • Web of Life
  • Wed
  • Wedding Anniversaries
  • Wedding Finger
  • Wedding Knives
  • Wednesday
  • Weed of Worcester
  • Weeds
  • Weeping Brides
  • Weeping Cross
  • Weeping Philosopher
  • Weeping Saint
  • Weigh Anchor
  • Weighed in the Balance, and found Wanting
  • Weight
  • Weight-for-age Race
  • Weissnichtwo
  • Welcher
  • Weld or Wold
  • Well Begun is Half Done
  • Well-beloved
  • Well-founded Doctor
  • Well of English Undefiled
  • Well of St. Keyne
  • Well of Samaria
  • Well of Wisdom
  • Wells
  • Weller
  • Wellington
  • Welsh Ambassador
  • Welsh Main
  • Welsh Mortgage
  • Welsh Rabbit
  • Welsher
  • Wench
  • Werner
  • Werther
  • Werwolf
  • Wesleyan
  • Wessex, or West Saxon Kingdom
  • Westmoreland
  • Wet
  • Wet-bob and Dry-bob
  • Wet Finger
  • Wetherell
  • Wexford Bridge Massacre
  • Weyd-monat
  • Whale
  • Whale
  • Whalebone
  • Wharncliffe
  • Wharton
  • What we Gave we Have, What we Spent we Had, What we Had we Lost
  • What's What
  • Whately
  • Wheal
  • Wheatear
  • Wheel
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Whelps
  • Whetstone
  • Whetstone of Witte
  • Whig
  • Whiggism
  • Whip
  • Whip
  • Whip-dog Day
  • Whip with Six Strings
  • Whipping Boy
  • Whiskers
  • Whisky
  • Whisky-drinker
  • Whist
  • Whistle
  • Whistle
  • Whistle Down the Wind
  • Whistle for the Wind
  • White
  • White Bird
  • White Brethren or White-clad Brethren
  • White Caps
  • White Caps
  • White Caps
  • White-coat
  • White Cockade
  • White Company
  • White Czar
  • White Elephant
  • White Feather
  • White Friars
  • White Harvest
  • White Hat
  • White Horse
  • White Horses
  • White House
  • White Ladies
  • White Lies
  • White Moments of Life
  • White Moon
  • White Night
  • White Poplar
  • White Rose
  • White Sheep
  • White Squall
  • White Stone
  • White Stone
  • White Surrey
  • White Tincture
  • White Water-lotus
  • White Widow
  • White Witch
  • White as Driven Snow
  • White in the Eye
  • Whitebait Dinner
  • Whiteboys
  • Whitehall
  • Whitewashed
  • Whit-leather
  • Whitsunday
  • Whittington
  • Whittle
  • Whittle Down
  • Whitworth Gun
  • Whole Duty of Man
  • Whole Gale
  • Whom the Gods Love Die Young
  • Wick, Wicked
  • Wicked Bible
  • Wicked Prayer Book
  • Wicked Weed
  • Wicket-gate
  • Wicliffe
  • Wide-awake
  • Widenostrils
  • Widow
  • Widow
  • Widow Bird
  • Widow's Cap
  • Widow's Piano
  • Widow's Port
  • Wieland
  • Wife
  • Wig
  • Wig
  • Wig
  • Wight
  • Wigwam
  • Wild
  • Wild Boar
  • Wild Boy of Hamelin
  • Wild Children
  • Wild-goose Chase
  • Wild Huntsman
  • Wild Oats
  • Wild Women
  • Wild Women
  • Wild as a March Hare
  • Wilde
  • Wile away Time
  • Wilfrid
  • Wilhelm Meister
  • Will not when They may
  • William
  • William L
  • Willie-Wastle
  • Willow
  • Willow Garland
  • Willow Pattern
  • Willy-nilly
  • Wilmington
  • Wilt or Welk
  • Wiltshire
  • Winchester
  • Wind Egg
  • Winds
  • Windfall
  • Windmills
  • Windmill Street
  • Window.
  • Wine
  • Wine
  • Wine-month.
  • Wine Mingled with Myrrh
  • Wintrith
  • Wing, Wings
  • Wings of Azrael
  • Winged Rooks
  • Winifred
  • Winkle
  • Wint-monath
  • Winter, Summer
  • Winter's Tale
  • Wipple-tree or Whipultre
  • Wisdom-tooth
  • Wisdom of Many and the Wit of One
  • Wise
  • Wise as a Serpent
  • Wise as Solomon
  • Wise as the Mayor of Banbury
  • Wise as the Women of Mungret
  • Wise Men or Wise Women
  • Wise Men of Greece
  • Wise Men of the East
  • Wise Men of Gotham
  • Wiseacre
  • Wisest Man of Greece
  • Wish-wash
  • Wishy-washy
  • Wishart
  • Wishing-bone
  • Wishing-cap
  • Wishing-coat
  • Wishing-rod
  • Wisp
  • Wisp of Straw
  • Wit
  • Wits
  • Witch
  • Witch-finder
  • Witch Hazel
  • Witch of Endor
  • Witch's Bridle
  • Witches' Sabbath
  • Witchcraft
  • Witenagemot
  • Witham
  • Withe
  • Withers of a Horse
  • Within the Pale
  • Witney
  • Wittington
  • Witwold
  • Wives of Literary Men
  • Wo
  • Woo or Wooe
  • Woosh
  • Woo-tee Dynasty
  • Woden
  • Woe to Thee, O Land
  • Woful
  • Wokey
  • Wolf
  • Wolf
  • Wolf
  • Wolf Men
  • Wolf-month or Wolf-monath
  • Wolfs-bane
  • Wolves
  • Wonder
  • Wonder-worker
  • Wood
  • Wood
  • Wood's Halfpence
  • Woodbind
  • Woodbine
  • Woodcock
  • Wooden Horse
  • Wooden Horse
  • Wooden Horse of Troy
  • Wooden Mare
  • Wooden Spoon
  • Wooden Sword
  • Wooden Wall
  • Wooden Wedge
  • Woodfall
  • Woodwardian Professor
  • Wool
  • Wool-gathering
  • Woollen
  • Woolsack
  • Woolwich Infant
  • Worcester
  • Worcester College
  • Word
  • Word
  • Word to the Wise
  • Words
  • Working on the Dead Horse
  • World
  • World
  • Worm
  • Worms
  • Wormwood
  • Worse than a Crime
  • Worship
  • Worsted
  • Worth
  • Worthies
  • Wound
  • Wraith
  • Wrangler
  • Wrath's Hole
  • Wraxen
  • Wright of Norwich
  • Write
  • Write Like an Angel
  • Wrong
  • Wrong End of the Stick
  • Wrong Side of the Blanket
  • Wrong Side of the Cloth
  • Wrong Sow by the Ear
  • Wrongun
  • Wroth Money or Wroth Silver
  • Wulstan
  • Wunderberg
  • Wyn-monath
  • Wynd
  • Wyoming


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