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111ladybird — This bright little insect (also called lady cow or Bishop Barnaby) is said to bring luck if it alights on someone, and should never be harmed. Children encourage it to fly away with some variant of the rhyme: Ladybird, ladybird, fly away… …
112spiders — Considering how general is the dislike of spiders, they feature often and have mainly a positive reputation in English lore. The belief that it is unlucky to kill a spider is generally reported: . . . If you are sweeping, and come on a web,… …
113hitch and kick — noun : a standing high jump in which the jumper springs from, kicks with, and alights on the same foot * * * hitch and kick A technique in high jumping whereby the athlete springs from, kicks with, and lands on the same foot • • • Main Entry:… …
114land-plane — landˈ plane noun An aeroplane that takes off from and alights on land • • • Main Entry: ↑land …
115alight on — a ˈlight on [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they alight on he/she/it alights on present participle alighting on past tense …
116alight on/upon — [phrasal verb] alight on/upon (something) : to see, notice, or think of (something) Her eye/eyes alighted on a strange man in the crowd. a speaker who easily alights upon topics that interest a wide audience • • • Main Entry: ↑alight …
117BARUCH, REST OF THE WORDS OF — BARUCH, REST OF THE WORDS OF, apocryphal book, also called Paralipomena Jeremiae (Chronicles of Jeremiah) in its present form, a Christian reworking of a patently Jewish source. It is connected with the wider Baruch and Jeremiah literature… …
118SHALOM ALEICHEM — (Sholem Aleykhem; narrative persona and subsequent pseudonym of Sholem Rabinovitsh (Rabinovitz); 1859–1916), Yiddish prose writer and humorist born on February 18, 1859 (old style; March 2, new style), in Pereyaslav (today: Pereyaslav… …
