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An announcement of some coming calamity. The allusion is to the handwriting on Belshazzar’s palace-wall announcing the loss of his kingdom. (Dan. v. 5–31.)
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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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