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Take-off
·noun An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
II. Take-off ·add. ·noun The spot at which...
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Shine
·vi Shining; sheen.
II. Shine ·noun Caper; antic; row.
III. Shine ·noun Sunshine; fair weather.
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shine
It shines like a shitten barn door.
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shine
To take the shine off, is to surpass in beauty or excellence.
Cousin P--, with his dandy cut trouse...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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shine
♦ To take the shine out of. To excel another vessel in a manœuvre. To surpass in any way.
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Take
·p.p. <<Taken>>.
II. Take ·noun The quantity or copy given to a compositor at one time.
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take
The draught of fishes in a single drag of the net. Also, to take, in a military sense, to take or ad...
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Off
·adv Denoting opposition or negation.
II. Off ·interj Away; begone;
— a command to depart.
III. O...
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off
The opposite to near. Also applied to a ship sailing from the shore into the open sea. Also, implies...
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off the reel
At once; without stopping. In allusion to the way in which the log-line flies off the reel when a sh...
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Earth shine
·- ·see Earth light, under <<Earth>>.
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Take-in
·noun Imposition; fraud.
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Take-up
·noun That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the...
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take (a man) down
Australian sporting slang.
1) Toinduce a man to bet, knowing that he must lose.
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to take on
To grieve; to fret at a misfortune or disappointment.
"Why, Polly, what's the matter, gal," inquire...
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take-up
The part between the smoke-box and the bottom of the funnel in a marine boiler. Also, a seaman takes...
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clean off the reel
When the ship by her rapidity pulls the line off the log-reel, without its being assisted. Also, upr...
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Blow-off
·adj as, a blow-off cock or pipe.
II. Blow-off ·noun A blowing off steam, water, ·etc.;.
III. Blow...
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Cast-off
·adj Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.
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Cut-off
·noun That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.
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Damp off
·- To decay and perish through excessive moisture.
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Far-off
·adj Remote; as, the far-off distance. ·cf. Far-off, under Far, ·adv
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Knock-off
·add. ·adj That knocks off; of or pertaining to knocking off.
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Left-off
·adj Laid aside; cast-off.
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Let-off
·noun A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom....
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Put-off
·noun A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an <<Excuse>>.
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Set-off
·noun ·see <<Offset>>, 7.
II. Set-off ·noun ·same·as <<Offset>>, ·noun, 4.
III. Set-off ·noun That...
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Taking-off
·add. ·noun The removal of sheets from the press.
II. Taking-off ·noun Removal; murder. ·see To tak...
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Throw-off
·noun A start in a hunt or a race.
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Wash-off
·adj Capable of being washed off; not permanent or durable;
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clawed off
Severely beaten or whipped; also smartly poxed or clapped.
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toss off
Manual pollution.
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to whip off
To run away, to drink off greedily, to snatch. He whipped away from home, went to the alehouse, wher...
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to bluff off
To put on a troublesome questioner, or dun, &c.
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to choke off
A figurative expression borrowed from the act of choking a dog to make him loosen his hold. To arres...
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to fob off
To delude by a trick.--Johnson.
A low word now seldom used, though we have good authority for it.
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to head off
To get before; to intercept. Ex. 'The thief ran fast, but the officer managed to head him off.'
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to slab off
I do not know the exact meaning of this expression.
You must take notice that I am slabb'd off from...
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to stave off
To push away as with a staff; to delay; as, 'to stave off the execution of the project.--Webster.
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cut-off
Passages cut by the great Western rivers, particularly the Mississippi, affording new channels, and ...
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hands off
A vulgar phrase for keep off; forbear.--Johnson.
They cut a stag into parts; but as they were enter...
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put off
An excuse, an illusory pretext for delay.--Carr's Craven Dialect.
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right off
Directly; immediately.
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away off
At a distance, but in sight.
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boxing off
Is performed by hauling the head-sheets to windward, and laying the head-yards flat aback, to pay th...
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break-off
(See broken-off)
"She breaks off from her course," applied only when the wind will not allow of ke...
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broken-off
Fallen off, in azimuth, from the course. Also, men taken from one duty to be put on another.
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claw off
See claw, to
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crawling off
Working off a lee-shore by slow degrees.
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cut off
A term used to denote a vessel's being seized by stratagem by the natives, and the crew being murder...
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ease off!
,or ease away there!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully.
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falling off
The opposite of griping, or coming up to the wind; it is the movement or direction of the ship's hea...
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hold off
The keeping the hove-in part of a cable or hawser clear of the capstan.
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keep off
To fall to a distance from the shore, or a ship, &c. (See offing.)
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killing-off
Striking the names of dead officers from the navy list by a coup de plume.
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laying off
See laying down
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lie off!
An order given to a boat to remain off on her oars till permission is given for her to come alongsid...
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making off
Cutting the flensed blubber of a whale into pieces, fitted to pass in at the bilge-holes of the butt...
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nothing off!
A term used by the man at the conn to the steersman, directing him to keep her close to the wind; or...
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off duty
An officer, marine, or seaman in his watch below, &c. An officer is sometimes put "off duty" as a pu...
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off-reckoning
A proportion of the full pay of troops retained from them, in special cases, until the period of fin...
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paid off
See paying off.
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paying off
The movement by which a ship's head falls off from the wind, and drops to leeward. Also, the paying ...
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push off
See put off!
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put off!
or push off
The order to boats to quit the ship or the shore.
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shove off!
The order to the bowman to put the boat's head off with his boat-hook.
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slack off
, or slacken!
The order to ease away the rope or tackle by which anything is held fast; as, "Slack...
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taking off
Said of tides, when decreasing from the spring-tides.
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The
·vi ·see <<Thee>>.
II. The (·art·def) A word placed before nouns to limit or individualize their me...
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to take to do
To take to task; to reprove.
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take order for
to provide for or against any thing. North.
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take-to-un
1) to take-to-un, to attack any one, either with blows, words, or law. W.
2) To TAKE TO ANYTHING is...
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touch-and-take
An old proverb which Nelson applied to a ship about to encounter her opponent. A Nelsonian maxim.
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lee-hatch, take care of the!
A word of caution to the helmsman, not to let the ship fall to leeward of her course.
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to bark off squirrels
A common way of killing squirrels among those who are expert with the rifle, in the Western States, ...
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off and on
Vacillating, changeable, undecided; in which sense it is much used with us. In England it is also us...
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back off all
The order when the harpooner has thrown his harpoon into the whale. Also, to back off a sudden dange...
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ball-off, to
To twist rope-yarns into balls, with a running end in the heart for making spun-yarn.
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blow off, to
To clear up in the clouds.
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blow-off-pipe
, in a steamer, is a pipe at the foot of each boiler, communicating with the sea, and furnished with...
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ease off handsomely!
,or ease away there!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully.
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fend off, to
In order to avoid violent contact, is, by the application of a spar, junk, rattans, &c., to prevent ...
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file off, to
To march off to a flank by files, or with a very small front.
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haul off, to
To sail closer to the wind, in order to get further from any object.
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move off, to
To defile.
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off and on
When a ship beating to windward approaches the shore by one board, and recedes from it when on the o...
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off she goes!
Means run away with the purchase fall. Move to the tune of the fifer. The first move when a vessel i...
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pricking her off
Marking a ship's position upon a chart by the help of a scale and compasses, so as to show her situa...
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pyke off, to
To go away silently.
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sheer off, to
To move to a greater distance, or to steer so as to keep clear of a vessel or other object.
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swig off, to
To pull at the bight of a rope by jerks, having its lower end fast; or to gain on a rope by jumping ...
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tell off, to
To divide a body of men into divisions and subdivisions, preparatory to a special service.
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well off, to
A mode of shutting off a leak by surrounding it by timbers screwed home through the lining to the ti...
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turn, to take or catch a
To pass a rope once or twice round a cleat, pin, kevel, or any other thing, to keep it fast.
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Jukes, The
·add. ·- A pseudonym used to designate the descendants of two sisters, the "Jukes" sisters, whose hu...
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Hermonites, the
(Ps. 42:6, 7) = "the Hermons", i.e., the three peaks or summits of Hermon, which are about a quarter...
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Sea, The
(Heb. yam), signifies (1) "the gathering together of the waters," the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river...
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Transfiguration, the
Of our Lord on a "high mountain apart," is described by each of the three evangelists (Matt. 17:1-8;...
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Word, The
(Gr. Logos), one of the titles of our Lord, found only in the writings of John (John 1:1-14; 1 John ...
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go, the
The dash. The mode. He is quite the go, he is quite varment, he is prime, he is bang up, are synonim...
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bag, the
Allowed for the men to keep their clothes in. The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-toke...
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Archite, The
(as if from a place named Erech, on the frontiers of Ephraim), the usual designation of David's frie...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Arkite, The
from Arka, one of the families of the Canaanites, (Genesis 10:17; 1 Chronicles 1:16) and from the co...
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Ashurites, The
Only in (2 Samuel 2:9) By some of the old interpreters the name is taken as meaning the Geshurites; ...
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Bachrites, The
the family of Becher, son of Ephraim. (Numbers 26:35)
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Baharumite, The
[Bahurim]
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Barhumite, The
[Bahurim]
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Belaites, The
(Numbers 26:38) [Bela, 3]
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Beriites, The
A tribe of people who are named with Abel and Beth-maachah, and who were therefore doubtless situate...
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Berothite, The
(1 Chronicles 11:39) [Beeroth Of The Children Of Jaakan]
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Canaanite, The
the designation of the apostle Simon, otherwise known as "Simon Zelotes." It occurs in (Matthew 10:4...
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Canaanites, The
a word used in two senses:
• A tribe which inhabited a particular locality of the land west of the ...
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Chemarim, The
(those who go about in black, i.e. ascetics). In the Hebrew applied to the priests of the worship of...
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College, The
In (2 Kings 22:14) it is probable that the word translated "college" represents here not an institut...
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Danites, The
The descendants of Dan and the members of his tribe. (Judges 13:2; 18:1,11; 1 Chronicles 12:35)
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Elonites, The
(Numbers 26:26) [Elon, 2]
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Epicureans, The
derived their name from Epicurus (342-271 B.C.), a philosopher of Attic descent, whose "Garden" at A...
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Eranites, The
(Numbers 26:36)
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Eshkalonites, The
(Joshua 13:3) [Ashkelon, Askelon]
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Eshtaulites, The
with the Zareathites, were among the families of Kirjath-jearim. (1 Chronicles 2:53)
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Exodus, The
of the Israelites from Egypt. the common chronology places the date of this event at B.C. 1491, deri...
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Eznite, The
According to the statement of (2 Samuel 23:8) Adino the Eznite was another name for Jashobeam, a Tac...
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Ezrahite, The
(son of Zerah), a title attached to two persons-Ethan, (1 Kings 4:31; Psalms 89:1) title, and Heman,...
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Gadites, The
the descendants of Gad, and members of his tribe.
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Garmite, The
Keilah the Garmite, i.e. the descendant of Gerem, is mentioned in the obscure genealogical lists of ...
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Gazathites, The
(Joshua 13:3) the inhabitants of Gaza.
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Gazites, The
Inhabitants of Gaza. (Judges 16:2)
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Gederathite, The
the native of a place called Gederah, apparently in Benjamin. (1 Chronicles 12:4)
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Gederite, The
the native of some place named Geder or Gederah. (1 Chronicles 27:28)
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Gershonites, The
the family descended from Gershon or Gershom, the son of Levi. "THE GERSH0NITE," as applied to indiv...
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Gezrites The
The word which the Jewish critics have substituted in the margin of the Bible for the ancient readin...
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Gibeonites, The
the people of Gibeon, and perhaps also of the three cities associated with Gibeon, (Joshua 9:17)-Hiv...
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Giblites, The
[Gebal]
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Gileadites, The
(Numbers 26:29; Judges 10:3; 12:4,5), a branch of the tribe of Manasseh, descended from Gilead.
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Gilonite, The
native of Giloh. (2 Samuel 15:12; 23:34)
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Girgasite, The
(Genesis 10:16) or NEXT ENTRY ...
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Gizonites, The
(inhabitant of Gizoh). "The sons of Hashem the Gizonite "are named amongst the warriors of David's g...
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Gunites, The
the descendants of Guni, son of Naphtali. (Numbers 26:48)
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Hagerite, The
Jaziz the Hagerite, i.e. the descendant of Hagar, had the charge of David's sheep. (1 Chronicles 27:...
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Haggites, The
a Gadite family sprung from Haggi. (Numbers 26:15)
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Hamathite, The
one of the families descended from Canaan, named last in the list. (Genesis 10:18; 1 Chronicles 1:16...
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Hamulites, The
the family of the preceding. (Numbers 26:21)
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Harodite, The
the designation of two of the thirty-seven warriors of David's guard, Shammah and Elika, (2 Samuel 2...
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Hebronites, The
A family of Kohathite Levites, descendants of Hebron the son of Kohath. (Numbers 3:27; 26:58; 1 Chro...
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Hepherites, The
the family of Hepher the son of Gilead. (Numbers 26:32)
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Hermonites, The
Properly "the Hermons," with reference to the three summits of Mount Hermon. (Psalms 42:6) (Psal 42:...
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Huphamites, The
descendants of Hupham, of the tribe of Benjamin. (Numbers 26:39)
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Jimnites, The
descendants of the preceding. (Numbers 26:44)
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Kenite, The
and Ken'ites (smiths), The, inhabited the rocky and desert region between southern Palestine and the...
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Machirites, The
the descendants of Machir the father of Gilead. (Numbers 26:29)
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Mahavite, The
the designation of Eliel, one of the warriors of King David's guard, whose name is preserved in the ...
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Manassites, The
that is, the members of the tribe of Manasseh. (4:43; Judges 12:4; 2 Kings 10:33)
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Maonites, The
a people mentioned in one of the addresses of Jehovah to the repentant Israelites, (Judges 10:12) el...
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Mecherathite, The
that is, the native or inhabitant of a place called Mecherah. (1 Chronicles 11:36) In the parallel l...
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Median, The
Darius, "the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes," (Daniel 9:1) or "the Mede," ch. (Daniel 11...
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Meholathite, The
a word occurring once only- (1 Samuel 18:19) It no doubt denotes that Adriel belonged to a place cel...
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Mehunims, The
a people against whom King Uzziah waged a successful war. (2 Chronicles 26:7) The name is the plural...
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Meronothithe, The
that is, the native of the place called probably Meronoth, of which, however, no further traces have...
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Mesobaite, The
a title attached to the name of Jasiel. (1 Chronicles 11:47) It is impossible to pronounce with any ...
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Mishraites, The
the fourth of the four "families of Kirjath-jearim," i.e. colonies proceeding therefrom and founding...
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Mithnite, The
the designation of Joshaphat, one of David's guard in the catalogue of (1 Chronicles 11:43)
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Morasthite, The
that is, the native of a place named Moresheth. It occurs twice- (Jeremiah 26:18; Micah 1:1)-each ti...
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Naamites, The
the family descended from Naaman, the grandson of Benjamin. (Numbers 28:40) only.
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Nehelamite, The
the designation of a man named Shemaiah, a false prophet, who went with the captivity to Babylon. (J...
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Pelonite, The
Two of David's men, Helez and Ahijah, are called Pelonites. (1 Chronicles 11:27,36) (B.C. about 1015...
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Pentateuch, The
is the Greek name given to the five books commonly called the "five books of Moses." This title is d...
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Perizzite, The
and Per'izzites (belonging to a village), one of the nations inhabiting the land of promise before a...
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Pharzites. The
the descendants of Parez the son of Judah. (Numbers 26:20)
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Plague, The
The plague is considered to be a severe kind of typhus, accompanied by buboes (tumors).-Like the cho...
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Praltite, The
Helez "the Paltite" is named in (2 Samuel 23:26) among David's mighty men. (B.C. 1015.)
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Puhites, The
According to (1 Chronicles 2:53) the "Puhites" or "Puthites" belonged to the families of Kirjath-jea...
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Punites, The
the descendants of Pua, or Puvah, the son of Issachar. (Numbers 26:23)
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Quicksands, The
more properly THE Syrtis, The, (Acts 27:17) the broad a deep bight on the north African coast betwee...
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Ramathite, The
Shimei the Ramathite, i.e. a native of Ramah, had charge of the royal vineyards of King David. (1 Ch...
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Sardites, The
descendants of Sered the son of Zebulun. (Numbers 26:26) (In the Revised Version of (Revelation 4:3)...
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Shaalbonite, The
Eliahba the Shaalbonite was one of David's thirty seven heroes. (2 Samuel 23:32; 1 Chronicles 11:33)...
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Shearinghouse, The
a place on the road between Jezreel and Samaria, at which Jehu, on his way to the latter, encountere...
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Shechemites, The
the family of Shechem son of Gilead. (Numbers 26:31) comp. Josh 17:2
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Sheepgate, The
one of the gates of Jerusalem as rebuilt by Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 3:1,32; 12:39) It stood between the ...
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Sheepmarket, The
(John 5:2) The world "market" is an interpolation of our translators. We ought probably to supply th...
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Shelanites, The
the descendants of Shelah. 1. (Numbers 26:20)
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Shemidaites, The
the descendants of Shemida the son of Gilead. (Numbers 26:32)
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Shillemites, The
[Shillem]
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Shilonite, The
that is, the native or resident of Shiloh; a title ascribed only to Ahijah. (1 Kings 11:29; 12:15; 1...
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Shilonites, The
are mentioned among the descendants of Judah dwelling in Jerusalem at a date difficult to (1 Chronic...
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Shimites, The
the descendants of Shimei the son of Gershon. (Numbers 3:21)
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Shimronites, The
[Shimron]
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Shiphmite The
probably, though not certainly, the native of Shepham. (1 Chronicles 27:27)
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Shuhamites, The
[Shuham]
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Shulamite, The
one of the personages in the poem of Solomon's (Song of Solomon 6:13) The name denotes a woman belon...
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Shumathites, The
one of the four families who sprang from Kirjath-jearim. (1 Chronicles 2:53)
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Shunammite, The
i.e. the native of Shunem, is applied to two persons: Abishag, the nurse of King David, (1 Kings 1:3...
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Shunites, The
the descendants of Shuni.
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Shuphamites, The
the descendants of Shupham or Shephupham, the Benjamite. (Numbers 26:3)
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Shuthalhites, The
[Shuthelah]
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Syrtis, The
(Acts 27:17) in the Revised Version in place of "quicksands" in the Authorized Version. It was the w...
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Tachmonite, The
"The Tachmonite that sat in the seat," chief among David's captains, (2 Samuel 23:8) Isa in 1Chr 11:...
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Tahanites, The
(Numbers 26:35) [Tahan]
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