a leading string, or back-string, for children. Sometimes called only a CAL. York, - West Riding.
·noun Title; appellation; name. II. Calling ·noun A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament. II...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A profession, or as we usually say, a vocation (1 Cor. 7:20). The "hope of your calling" in Eph. 4:4...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
giving public notice by the cryer; I had it called, I had it cried. Northumb. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·vt A bond. II. Band ·- imp. of Bind. III. Band ·vt A belt or strap. IV. Band ·vt Pledge; securit...
a string of any kind. North. ...
The musicians of a band are called idlers in large ships. Also a small body of armed men or retainer...
The Sailor's Word-Book
The "band of Roman soldiers" referred to in (Matthew 27:27) and elsewhere was the tenth part of a le...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·- A small red fish of the genus Cepola; the ribbon fish. ...
·noun A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for ...
(Acts 27:1.: literally, of Sebaste, the Greek form of Augusta, the name given to Caesarea in honour ...
The name of the Roman cohort to which Cornelius belonged (Acts 10:1), so called probably because it ...
a kind of great can with a cover; called in Yorkshire a BOW-KITE. ...
a band. N. ...
, or ribbon-fishes A popular name of the Gymnetrus genus. ...
A strip of canvas, half way between the close-reef and the foot of square sails, to strengthen them....
See sand and coral bank or islet. ...
A northern term for the grommet to an oar-pin or thole. ...
One of the bands of a sail, to give additional strength. ...
A narrow band of canvas sewed on the reef-line to support the strain of the reef-points. It is pierc...
(Acts 27:1) [Army] ...
[Army] ...
These words are employed to represent the Hebrew word gedud, which has invariably the sense of an ir...