(A corruption of the Dutch vies, nice, fastidious.) 'I am feast of it,' is a literal translation of the Dutch Ik ben 'er vies van, i. e. I am disgusted with, I loathe it. A New York phrase, mostly confined to the descendants of the Dutch.
·noun To be highly gratified or delighted. II. Feast ·noun A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
As a mark of hospitality (Gen. 19:3; 2 Sam. 3:20; 2 Kings 6:23); on occasions of domestic joy (Luke ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·noun One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. II. Smell-feast ·noun...
Where the entertainer gets drunk before his guest. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A dinner given after a funeral, to those who have carried the corpse. ...
The third of the great annual festivals of the Jews (Lev. 23:33-43). It is also called the "feast of...
Was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tisri, the first month of the civil year. It received i...
See Pentecost. ...
(Numbers 29:1; Leviticus 23:24) the feast of the new moon, which fell on the first of Tisri. It diff...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
(John 10:22, 42), i.e., the feast of the renewing. It was instituted B.C. 164 to commemorate the pur...
Special services were appointed for the commencement of a month (Num. 28:11-15; 10:10). (See Festiva...
the festival instituted to commemorate the purging of the temple and the rebuilding of the altar aft...
(Exodus 23:16) ("the feast of ingathering"), the third of the three great festivals: of the Hebrews,...