See also:REBUS (See also:Lat. rebus, " by things ")
, a sort of riddle consisting of the See also:representation of some See also:sentence or thing by means of pictures or words, or a See also:combination of both
.
Rebuses first became popular in See also:France, where they were at first called See also:rebus de Picardie, that See also:province, according to G
.
See also:Menage (1613-1692), having been the See also:scene of their origin, which he found in the satires written by the students and See also:young clerks on the foibles of the See also:day under the See also:title " De rebus quae geruntur." See also:Camden mentions an instance of this See also:kind of wit in a gallant who ex-pressed his love to a woman named See also:Rose See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill by See also:painting in the border of his See also:gown a rose, a hill, an See also:eye, a See also:loaf and a well; this, in the See also:style of the rebus, reads " Rose Hill I love well." This kind of wit was happily ridiculed by See also:Ben See also:Jonson in the humorous description of See also:Abel Drugger's See also:device in the Alchemivt and by
the Spectator in the device of See also:Jack of See also:Newberry
.
The name is also applied to arrangements of words in which the position of the several vocables is to be taken into See also:account in See also:divining the meaning
.
Thus " I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking " makes the rebus
stand take to taking
I you throw my; or in See also:French
pir vent vemr
un vient d'un
may be read " un soupir vient souvent d'un souvenir." A still simpler French rebus is expressed by the two letters G a, which may be read, J'ai See also:grand See also:appeal (G grand, a See also:petit)
.
" Rebus " (or " allusive arms "), in See also:heraldry, is a coat of arms which bears an allusion to the name of the See also:person,—as three castles for See also:Castleton, three cups for See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler, three conies for Coningsby
.
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