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An earthen pot for holding spirits; a large stone jar. Also an old man. (cf. Bellarmine.)
“We will give a cup of distilled waters . . unto the next pilgrim that comes over; and ye may keep for the purpose the grunds of the last greybeard.”—Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, chap. ix.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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