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2,339 words match “RAS”

A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

The sun god of the Persians.

A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore. (Min.) See Bog ore, under Bog.

Marshy; fenny. [R.] Pennant.

NEURASTHENIA n.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

An extinct genus of Paleozoic Cephalopoda, having a long, straight, conical shell. The interior is divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa.

Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass. [Obs.] Spenser.

A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.

PARAPHRASE n. 3 definitions

of a text in other and ampler terms; a free translation or rendering; -- opposed to metaphrase. In paraphrase, or translation with latitude, the author's words are not so strictly followed as his sense. Dryden. Excellent paraphrases of the Psalms of David. I. Disraeli. His sermons a living paraphrase upon his practice.…

One who paraphrases.

PARAPHRASIAN n.

A paraphraser. [R.]

A paraphraser. T. Warton.

PARAPHRASTIC; PARAPHRASTICAL a.

Paraphrasing; of the nature of paraphrase; explaining, or translating in words more clear and ample than those of the author; not literal; free. -- Par`a*phras"tic*al*ly, adv.

A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.

One of two apartments adjoining the stage, probably used as robing rooms.

PARASCEVE n. 2 definitions

Among the Jews, the evening before the Sabbath. [Obs.] Mark xv. 42 (Douay ver.)

PARASCHEMATIC a.

Of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc. Max Müller.

A mock moon; an image of the moon which sometimes appears at the point of intersection of two lunar halos. Cf. Parhelion.

A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.

pl. of Parashah.