Temple

·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.