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Feast
·noun To be highly gratified or delighted. II. Feast ·noun A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more...

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Feast
As a mark of hospitality (Gen. 19:3; 2 Sam. 3:20; 2 Kings 6:23); on occasions of domestic joy (Luke ...

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feast
(A corruption of the Dutch vies, nice, fastidious.) 'I am feast of it,' is a literal translation of ...

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Dutch
·noun The language spoken in Holland. II. Dutch ·noun The people of Holland; Dutchmen. III. Dutch ...

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dutch
Language, or rather gibberish, which cannot be understood by a listener. (See double dutch.) ...

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Smell-feast
·noun One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. II. Smell-feast ·noun...

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shoulder feast
A dinner given after a funeral, to those who have carried the corpse. ...

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dutch comfort
Thank God it is no worse. ...

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dutch concert
Where every one plays or signs a different tune. ...

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dutch reckoning
or ALLE-MAL A verbal or lump account, without particulars, as brought at spungiug or bawdy houses. ...

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double dutch coiled against the sun
Gibberish, or any unintelligible or difficult language. ...

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dutch-caper
A light-armed vessel of the seventeenth century, adapted for privateering, and much used by the Dutc...

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dutch consolation
"Whatever ill befalls you, there's somebody that's worse;" or "It's very unfortunate; but thank God ...

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dutch courage
The excitement inspired by drinking spirits; false energy. ...

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dutch plaice
The Pleuronectes platessa. When small, it is called fleak; when large, Dutch plaice. ...

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dutch pump
A punishment so contrived that, if the prisoner would not pump hard, he was drowned. ...

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dutch reckoning
A bad day's work, all in the wrong. ...

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dutch reds
High-smoked herrings prepared in Holland. ...

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Tabernacles, Feast of
The third of the great annual festivals of the Jews (Lev. 23:33-43). It is also called the "feast of...

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Trumpets, Feast of
Was celebrated at the beginning of the month Tisri, the first month of the civil year. It received i...

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Weeks, Feast of
See Pentecost. ...

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Trumpets, Feast Of
(Numbers 29:1; Leviticus 23:24) the feast of the new moon, which fell on the first of Tisri. It diff...

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Dutch Church Almshouses
In Middle Moorfields. Erected by the Dutch Congregation of the Austin Friars early in 1700 (Strype, ...

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Dutch Church, Austinfriars
On the east side of Austinfriars, at No. 6 (P.O. Directory). The western end of the Priory Church o...

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dutch eel-skuyt
A flat-bottomed somewhat cutter-rigged sea-boat, carrying lee-boards, fitted with two water-tight bu...

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Dedication, Feast of the
(John 10:22, 42), i.e., the feast of the renewing. It was instituted B.C. 164 to commemorate the pur...

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New Moon, Feast of
Special services were appointed for the commencement of a month (Num. 28:11-15; 10:10). (See Festiva...

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Dedication, Feast Of The
the festival instituted to commemorate the purging of the temple and the rebuilding of the altar aft...

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Tabernacles, The Feast Of
(Exodus 23:16) ("the feast of ingathering"), the third of the three great festivals: of the Hebrews,...

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