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Pelf Filthy pelf. Money. The word was anciently used for refuse or rubbish. Who steals my purse steals
trash. Filthy means ungodly; the Scripture expression is unrighteous mammon. It is certainly not connected
with pilfer, as it is usually given; but it may possibly be with the Anglo-Saxon pila, a pile or heap. Pelias The huge spear of Achilles, which none but the hero could wield; so called because it was cut from an ash growing on Mount Pelion, in Thessaly. Pelican in Christian art, is a symbol of charity. It is also an emblem of Jesus Christ, by whose blood
we are healed (Eucherius and Jerome). (See below.) Than sayd the Pellycane,Pelicans. The notion that pelicans feed their young with their blood arose from the following habit:- They have a large bag attached to their under bill. When the parent bird is about to feed its brood, it macerates small fish in this bag or pouch, then pressing the bag against its breast, transfers the macerated food to the mouths of the young. A pelican in her piety is the representation of a pelican feeding her young with her blood. The Romans called filial love piety, hence Virgil's hero is called pius AEneas, because he rescued his father from the flames of Troy. |
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