Rebusses
The Following Are Rebusses on the Names of Birds
1. A child’s plaything.
2. What we all do at every meal.
3. A disorder incident to man and horse.
4. Nothing, twice yourself, and fifty.
5. What we should always be ready to do to persons fighting, and the top of a house.
6. Equality and decay.
7. A celebrated English architect.
8. A tailor’s implement.
9. A lever.
10. An instrument for raising weights.
11. Three-eighths of a monthly publication, with a baked dish.
12. A valuable species of corn, and a very necessary part of it.
13. A cheated person.
14. A distant country.
15. Spoil half a score.
16. The defence of a bridge.
17. An instrument of diversion for men and boys.
18. A piece of wood, and a fashionable name for a street.
19. To cut off, and a vowel.
20. A piece of land, and a good thing which it produces.
21. What we say a person has got when he falls into the water.
22. An Animal which a Jew must not eat, a vowel, and a preposition.
23.
I am found in a jail; I belong to a fire;
And am seen in a gutter abounding in mire:
Put my last letter third, and then ’twill be found
I belong to a king, without changing my sound.
24.
Ye rebus wits,
Now mind your hits;
For your’s the task
My name to unmask:
A fruit we eat,
As sauce to meat;
And with fish too,
That wants a gout;
One letter, pray,
Take quite away;
A point of land
You’ll understand
Which sailors dread
Too near their lead,
But when embay’d,
Enjoy its shade:
One more letter
Then unfetter
The thing that’s left,
When thus bereft,
Is worn by all,
Both great and small,
From king and queen
To beggar mean.