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'Three Estates of the Realm' The Three Estates of the Ream are:  the nobility, the clergy and the commonality. After their advent, the newspapers have been termed the Fourth Estate.   The Wiseacre; This word is derived from the German word weissage r which means a wise sayer or prophet. Anyway the word has lost its original meaning. Now it is applied to conceited persons, wise only, ''in their own conceit.''

DEAD-HEAT A race to be run again between two horses that have "tied". A heat is that part of a race run without stopping.  Two or more heats  makes a race. A dead heat is a heat which goes for for nothing; it is dead,  as if it had never taken place. At the present day, when two horses reach the winning post simultaneously they are said to dead-heat for the first place and are bracketed winners.