Storksʹ Law or Lex Ciconaria.

A Roman law which obliged children to maintain their necessitous parents in old age, “in imitation of the stork.” Also called “Antipelargia.”

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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.

Stone of Tongues
Stones
Stonebrash
Stonehenge
Stonewall Jackson
Stony Arabia
Stool of Repentance
Stops
Store
Stork
Storks Law or Lex Ciconaria
Storm in a Teapot
Storms
Stormy Petrel (A)
Stornello Verses
Storthing (pron. stor-ting)
Stovepipe hat (A)
Stowe
Stowe Nine Churches
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Stradivarius (Antonio)