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• REBUS (Lat. rebus, " by things ")

REBUS (See also:

• LAT

Lat. rebus, " by things ")  , a sort of riddle consisting of the See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation of some See also:

• SENTENCE (Lat. sententia, a way of thinking, opinion, judgment; vote, sentire, to feel, think)

sentence or thing by means of pictures or words, or a See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination of both . Rebuses first became popular in See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France, where they were at first called See also:

• REBUS (Lat. rebus, " by things ")

rebus de Picardie, that See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, according to G . See also:

• MENAGE, GILLES (1613-1692)

Menage (1613-1692), having been the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of their origin, which he found in the satires written by the students and See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young clerks on the foibles of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title " De rebus quae geruntur." See also:

• CAMDEN
• CAMDEN, CHARLES PRATT, 1ST EARL (1714-1794)
• CAMDEN, JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT, 2ND EARL
• CAMDEN, WILLIAM (1551-1623)

Camden mentions an instance of this See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of wit in a gallant who ex-pressed his love to a woman named See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

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

painting in the border of his See also:

• GOWN

gown a rose, a hill, an See also:

• EYE
• EYE (O. Eng. edge, Ger. Auge; derived from an Indo-European root also seen in Lat. oc-ulus, the organ of vision (q.v.)

eye, a See also:

• LOAF

loaf and a well; this, in the See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style of the rebus, reads " Rose Hill I love well." This kind of wit was happily ridiculed by See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

Ben See also:

• JONSON

Jonson in the humorous description of See also:

• ABEL (better ABELL), THOMAS (d. 1540)
• ABEL (Hebrew for breath)
• ABEL, KARL FRIEDRICH (1725-1787)
• ABEL, NIELS HENRIK (1802-1829)
• ABEL, SIR FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, BART

Abel Drugger's See also:

• DEVICE

device in the Alchemivt and by the Spectator in the device of See also:

• JACK

Jack of See also:

• NEWBERRY, JOHN STRONG (1822-1892)

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
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account in See also:

• DIVINING

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
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

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

grand See also:

• APPEAL

appeal (G grand, a See also:

• PETIT, SIR DINSHAW MANECKJI, BART

petit) . " Rebus " (or " allusive arms "), in See also:

• HERALDRY

heraldry, is a coat of arms which bears an allusion to the name of the See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person,—as three castles for See also:

• CASTLETON

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 .