Bartleby.com (see the
March 24, 2000 Scout Report) has recently placed this new work online. It is E. Cobham Brewer's 1898
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, a collection of more than 18,000 entries "that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog 'words with a tale to tell.'" The entries can be browsed alphabetically or searched by keyword.
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