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ts, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling. The host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim. 1 Chron. xi. 15.

The act of pitching tents or forming huts, as by an army or traveling company, for temporary lodging or rest.

t; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend in traveling; two armies encounter each other; to encounter obstacles or difficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. I am most…

th the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance. The Apostles, so far as they evangelized, might claim the tittle though there were many evangelists who were not Apistles. Plumptre.…

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

The act of moving in any manner; traveling; as, the going is bad.

Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc. [Scot.] Jamieson.

ecially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.

The edge or border of a garment or cloth, doubled over and sewed, to strengthen raveling.

A professional tramp; one who spends his life traveling from place to place, esp. by stealing rides on trains, and begging for a living. [U. S.] -- Ho"bo*ism (#), n.

A man who is skilled in traveling upon ice, as among glaciers.

Freedom from thirst. [Obs.] The insitiency of a camel for traveling in deserts. Grew.

Passing or traveling about a country; going or preaching on a circuit; wandering; not settled; as, an itinerant preacher; an itinerant peddler. The king's own courts were then itinerant, being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made. Blackstone.…

Itinerant; traveling; passing from place to place; done on a journey. It was rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress. Bacon.

The act of giving a jog or jogs; traveling at a jog.

Characterized by, or suitable for, knocking about, or traveling or wandering hither and thither.

ise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.

An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.

The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship.

Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. Shak.