- barnaby day
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see barnaby bright
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Barnaby Day or Barnaby Bright nounSt Barnabas's Day, 11 June, in Old Style reckoned the longest day• • •Main Entry: ↑Barnaby
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barnaby bright — bē noun or barnaby day Usage: usually capitalized 1st B Etymology: after St. Barnabas (Acts 4:36 37), whose feast day is June 11 : June 11 Old Style, the longest day in the year called also St. Barnabas day; contrasted with Lucy light * * * … Useful english dictionary
Barnaby's thistle — noun European weed having a winged stem and hairy leaves; adventive in the eastern United States • Syn: ↑yellow star thistle, ↑Centaurea solstitialis • Hypernyms: ↑weed * * * ˈbärnəbēz noun Usage: usually capitalized B … Useful english dictionary
Barnaby Rudge — … Wikipedia
Barnaby bright, Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night — St. Barnabas’ Day, 11 June, was reckoned the longest day of the year under the Old Style calendar. Cf. 1595 SPENSER Epithalamion 1. 266 This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight, With Barnaby the bright. 1659 J. HOWELL Proverbs (English) 20… … Proverbs new dictionary
BARNABY K C — UNITED KINGDOM (see also List of Individuals) .. 1887 Southampton/UK 22.3.1968 /UK Kenneth C. Barnaby served his apprenticeship at the Thornycroft shipyard in Southampton and graduated in engineering from the Central Technical College, South… … Hydraulicians in Europe 1800-2000
day — see as the day lengthens, so the cold strengthens be the day weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to evensong one day honey, one day onion another day, another dollar an apple a day keeps the doctor away … Proverbs new dictionary
Barnaby — see Barnaby bright, Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night … Proverbs new dictionary
Long Barnaby — same as ↑Barnaby Day above. • • • Main Entry: ↑Barnaby … Useful english dictionary
Inspector Barnaby — Seriendaten Deutscher Titel Inspector Barnaby Originaltitel Midsomer Murders … Deutsch Wikipedia
Inspecteur Barnaby — Titre original Midsomer Murders Autres titres francophones Inspecteur Barnaby Genre Série policière Pays d’origine … Wikipédia en Français
