In newly settled countries at the West, every mile square is marked by "blazed" trees, and the corners especially distinguished by stakes whose place is pointed out by trees called witness-trees.--Mrs. Clavers's Western Clearings, p. 3.
·vi That which furnishes evidence or proof. II. Witness ·vi Attestation of a fact or an event; test...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
More than one witness was required in criminal cases (Deut. 17:6; 19:15). They were the first to exe...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Among people with whom writing is not common the evidence of a transaction is given by some tangible...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
Boughs of, were to be carried in festive procession on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles (Le...
Equivalent to blazed trees, which see. Maine. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
The two cross-pieces of a gun-carriage, fixed across and under the fore and hinder parts of the chee...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Another name for bilge-coads. ...
Certain timbers supported by the cheeks and trestle-trees at the upper ends of the lower and top mas...
Two strong bars of timber fixed horizontally fore-and-aft on each side of the lower mast-head, to su...
the former occurring in (2 Chronicles 2:8; 9:10,11) the latter in (1 Kings 10:11,12) These words are...
[Algum Or Almug Trees TREES] see Algum Trees ...
(Heb. becaim). Mention of these is made only in (2 Samuel 5:23,24) and 1Chr 14:14 We are quite unabl...
Single iron cross-trees at the head of long topgallant-masts, to support royal and skysail masts. ...
(Rom. 8:16), the consciousness of the gracious operation of the Spirit on the mind, "a certitude of ...
The chess-trees, the cross-trees, the rough-trees, the trestle-trees, and the waste-trees. ...
The name given to Jericho (q.v.), Deut. 34:3; Judg. 1:16; 3:13. ...