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An American tree, the winged elm. (Ulmus alata).

eeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch.

The whidah bird.

One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

A modern transliteration of the Hebrew word translated Jehovah in the Bible; -- used by some critics to discriminate the tribal god of the ancient Hebrews from the Christian Jehovah. Yahweh or Yahwe is the spelling now generally adopted by scholars.

The religion or worship of Yahweh (Jehovah), or the system of doctrines, etc., connected with it.

f the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.

The oil of the mahwa tree.

A Turkish policeman. [Written also zaptieh.]

A district or local division, as of a province. [India]

account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

t, in the scale of absolute temperature. It is equivalent to -273º centigrade or -459.4º Fahrenheit.

The state or quality of being absorbable. Graham (Chemistry).

Absorbed. [Arcahic.] "Absorpt in care." Pope.

The mahogany tree; also, its timber.

nt. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy.

One who maintains that points of the Hebrew word translated "Jehovah" are really the vowel points of the word "Adonai." See Jehovist.

To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres . . . advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes. Esther iii. 1.

ime that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when. [Archaic or Dial.] Urijah the priest made it, against King Ahaz came from Damascus. 2 Kings xvi. 11. Against the sun, in a direction contrary to that in which the sun appears to move.