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The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

deposited or due; -- usually with on or upon. You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey. Jay.

ernative. It is correlative to or. Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth. 1 Kings xviii. 27. Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede. Latham.

Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large. Mozley & W.

A wandering; a roving or irregular course. [Obs.] The rest of his journey, his error by sea. B. Jonson.

of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea. The troo…

Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life.

To journey or pass thought. [R.]

A journey chiefly for recreation; a pleasure trip; a brief tour; as, an excursion into the country.

A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migration from a place.

A journey in circuit of certain judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. Milton.

That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. Milton.

Journey; way; method of proceeding. [Obs.] "Follow him and his fore." Chaucer.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] Kersey.

Gird up the loins of your mind. 1 Pet. i. 13. -- Girt up; prepared or equipped, as for a journey or for work, in allusion to the ancient custom of gathering the long flowing garments into the girdle and tightening it before any exertion; hence, adjectively, eagerly or constantly active; strenuous; striving. "A severer…

tants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end. Part curb their fiery steeds, or shun the goal With rapid wheels. Milton.

Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.] Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10.

dan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea." Num. xxxiv. 12. (b) Departure or journeying. "And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys." Num. xxxiii. 2. -- Goings on, behavior; actions; conduct; -- usually in a bad sense.

resent their children for baptism. -- Halfway house, an inn or place of call midway on a journey.