·add. ·noun A local organization of Odd Fellows.
II. Temple ·noun The edifice erected at Jerusalem for the worship of Jehovah.
III. Temple ·noun Fig.: Any place in which the divine presence specially resides.
IV. Temple ·noun A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.
V. Temple ·vt To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; as, to temple a god.
VI. Temple ·add. ·noun A building dedicated to the administration of ordinances.
VII. Temple ·noun Hence, among Christians, an edifice erected as a place of public worship; a church.
VIII. Temple ·noun The space, on either side of the head, back of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch and in front of the ear.
IX. Temple ·noun A place or edifice dedicated to the worship of some deity; as, the temple of Jupiter at Athens, or of Juggernaut in India.
X. Temple ·noun One of the side bars of a pair of spectacles, jointed to the bows, and passing one on either side of the head to hold the spectacles in place.