An old ship fitted up in a commercial port for the purpose of public Worship.
BETHEL(Βαιθήλ, Βηθήλ), a border city of the tribe of Ephraim, for the northern boundary of Benjamin ...
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
·noun A chapel for dissenters. II. Bethel ·noun A house of worship for seamen. III. Bethel ·noun A...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
House of God. 1) A place in Central Palestine, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, at the head of th...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
See floating bethel. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
(the house of God) well known city and holy place of central Palestine, about 12 mlles north of Jeru...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun The second coat of three-coat plastering. II. Floating ·noun Floating threads. ·see Floating ...
God of Bethel, the name of the place where Jacob had the vision of the ladder, and where he erected ...
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Floating lien. ...
·add. ·- A charge, lien, ·etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from ...
See campbell's academy. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The hulks. ...
A simple machine consisting of a fourfold canvas, stretched by two cross-bars of iron, rivetted in t...
A vessel expressly fitted for action in harbours or sheltered waters, having heavier offensive and d...
A passage formed across a river or creek by means of bridges of boats, as over the Douro, Rhine, &c....
(See frapping a ship.) A term for the old 10-gun brigs. ...
A caisson used instead of gates for a dry-dock. ...
See caisson. ...
A vessel moored off rocks or sand-banks, hoisting lights at night. ...
As the stage at Liverpool. ...
For caulkers, painters, &c. ...
A modified camel (which see). ...