To be three sheets to the wind is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.

The deceased man had no near relatives.

There are two words in the Greek which set forth the nature of covetousness: 1. Pleonexia, which signifies an 'insatiable desire of getting the world.' Covetousness is a dry dropsy.

The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness.