andrew : Idioms & Phrases

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andrew carnegie

  • noun United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
    Carnegie.
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andrew d. white

  • noun United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
    Andrew D. White; White.
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andrew dickson white

  • noun United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
    Andrew D. White; White.
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andrew fielding huxley

  • noun English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
    Andrew Fielding Huxley; Huxley.
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andrew huxley

  • noun English physiologist who, with Alan Hodgkin, discovered the role of potassium and sodium ions in the transmission of the nerve impulse (born in 1917)
    Andrew Fielding Huxley; Huxley.
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andrew jackson

  • noun 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845)
    Old Hickory; Jackson.
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andrew jackson downing

  • noun United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852)
    Downing.
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andrew johnson

  • noun 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)
    President Johnson; Andrew Johnson; Johnson.
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andrew lloyd webber

  • noun English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948)
    Lloyd Webber; Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton.
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andrew marvell

  • noun English poet (1621-1678)
    Marvell.
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andrew mellon

  • noun United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)
    Andrew W. Mellon; Mellon; Andrew Mellon.
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andrew w. mellon

  • noun United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)
    Andrew W. Mellon; Mellon; Andrew Mellon.
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andrew william mellon

  • noun United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)
    Andrew W. Mellon; Mellon; Andrew Mellon.
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andrew wyeth

  • noun United States painter (born in 1917)
    Wyeth.
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andrew's clintonia

  • noun plant with nearly leafless stalk topped by a cluster of red or reddish lavender flowers; California to Oregon
    red Clintonia; Clintonia andrewsiana.
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low st andrew's cross

  • noun low shrubby plant having yellow flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; Bermuda and southeastern United States to West Indies and eastern Mexico
    Hypericum hypericoides.
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merry andrew

  • noun a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior
    goof; goofball; buffoon; clown.
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merry-andrew

Mer"ry-an"drew noun
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  1. One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. ✍ This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who gained patients by facetious speeches to the multitude.
Webster 1913

president andrew johnson

  • noun 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)
    President Johnson; Andrew Johnson; Johnson.
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robert andrews millikan

  • noun United States physicist who isolated the electron and measured its charge (1868-1953)
    Millikan.
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roy chapman andrews

  • noun United States naturalist who contributed to paleontology and geology (1884-1960)
    Andrews.
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saint andrew

  • noun (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland
    Saint Andrew; Saint Andrew the Apostle; Andrew.
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saint andrew the apostle

  • noun (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland
    Saint Andrew; Saint Andrew the Apostle; Andrew.
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st andrews's cross

  • noun shrubby plant having yellow to apricot flowers with four petals arranged in a cross; southeastern United States: New York to Texas
    Hypericum crux andrae.
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st. andrew

  • noun (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of Peter; patron saint of Scotland
    Saint Andrew; Saint Andrew the Apostle; Andrew.
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st. andrew's cross

  • noun a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length
    saltire.
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