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oses in various instances. They were Judaizing doctors, who taught the observation of the Mosaic law. Bp. Bull.

A weed; a kecksy. Bp. Gauden. Though the rough kex break The starred mosaic. Tennyson.

The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament. What things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law . . . But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the pro…

According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses

A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version).

Attachment to the system or doctrines of Moses; that which is peculiar to the Mosaic system or doctrines.

An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus. Ex. xxx. 34.

lor is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold. Ormolu varnish, a varnish applied to metals, as brass, to give the appearance of gold.

nd the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietra dura, though the ground may be soft marble.

A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.…

Formed of tesseræ, as a mosaic.

Formed of little squares, as mosaic work; checkered; as, a tessellated pavement.

The act of tessellating; also, the mosaic work so formed. J. Forsyth.

rthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token…

Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated. [Obs.] Sir R. Atkyns (1712).