·- Any species of Goliathus, a genus of very large and handsome African beetles.
passage; revolution; heap ...
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Great. 1) A famous giant of Gath, who for forty days openly defied the armies of Israel, but was at...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(splendor), a famous giant of Gath, who "morning and evening for forty days" defied the armies of Is...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·vt To beat with a heavy mallet. II. Beetle ·vt A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavement...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
(Heb. hargol, meaning "leaper"). Mention of it is made only in Lev. 11:22, where it is obvious the w...
A shipwright's heavy mallet for driving the wedges called reeming irons, so as to open the seams in ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
[Locust] ...
·add. ·- A bark beetle that feeds on ambrosia. ...
·- A small beetle of many species (family Scolytidae), which in the larval state bores under or in t...
·- An overhanging brow. ...
·- Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. ...
·adj Dull; stupid. ...
·- ·see <<Elater>>. ...
·- A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has...
·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...
·noun A small beetle of the family Halticidae, of many species. They have strong posterior legs and ...
·add. ·- A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, ...
·- Any one of numerous species of aquatic beetles belonging to Dytiscus and allied genera of the fam...
One having thick projecting eyebrows. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Dull, stupid. ...
A large beetle, weighing 1000 lbs., swayed up by a crabwinch to a height, and dropped by a pincer-sh...
A caulker's largest mallet. ...
A heavy mallet. There is an old proverb: "A Dover court; all speakers and no hearers." "A Dover co...