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Day's journey
The usual length of a day's journey in the East, on camel or horseback, in six or eight hours, is ab...

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Sabbath
·noun The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival. II. Sabbath ·nou...

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Sabbath
(Heb. verb shabbath, meaning "to rest from labour"), the day of rest. It is first mentioned as havin...

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Sabbath
(shabbath), "a day of rest," from shabath "to cease to do to," "to rest"). The name is applied to di...

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Journey
·noun The travel or work of a day. II. Journey ·vt To <<Traverse>>; to travel over or through. III...

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Journey
1) A day's journey in the East is from 16 to 20 miles (Num. 11:31). 2) A Sabbath-day's journey is 2...

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Journey-bated
·adj Worn out with journeying. ...

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journey-work
Work performed by the day. ...

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Sabbathdays Journey
(Acts 1:12) The law as regards travel on the Sabbath is found in (Exodus 16:29) As some departure fr...

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Cross-days
·noun ·pl The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension. ...

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Dog days
·- A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the...

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Day's Court
On the east side of Old Change (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

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born days
One's life-time ever since one was born; a vulgar expression used in various parts of the country. I...

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boon-days
days when statute-work on the high-ways is performed. York. ...

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vore-days
late in the day. Exm. ...

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banyan days
See banian ...

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day's work
In navigation, the reckoning or reduction of the ship's courses and distances made good during twent...

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lay-days
The time allowed for shipping or discharging a cargo; and if not done within the term, fair weather ...

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overlay days
Days for which demurrage can be charged. ...

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Ancient of Days
An expression applied to Jehovah three times in the vision of Daniel (7:9, 13, 22) in the sense of e...

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cooking a day's work
To save the officer in charge. Reckoning too is cooked, as in a certain Antarctic discovery of land,...

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working a day's work
Reducing the dead-reckoning and meridian altitudes to noon of each day. ...

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