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A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version.

Treacherous; betraying. Judas hole, a peephole or secret opening for spying. -- Judas kiss, a deceitful and treacherous kiss. -- Judas tree (Bot.), a leguminous tree of the genus Cercis, with pretty, rose-colored flowers in clusters along the branches. Judas is said to have hanged himself on a tree of this genus (C.…

m, in juridical construction, never dies. Burke. Juridical days, days on which courts are open.

e key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem. Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books. Locke. Who keeps the keys of all the creeds. Tennyson.…

The mouth or opening of an oven or kiln. Shak.

by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.

A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.

A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.

A salmon split open, salted, and dried or smoked; -- so called because salmon after spawning were usually so cured, not being good when fresh. [Scot.] Kipper time, the season in which fishing for salmon is forbidden. [Eng. & Scot.]

hey fold up out of sight and allow the kitchen to be made a part of the adjoining room by opening folding doors.

om in religious rites or as a men's dormitory. It is commonly lighted and entered from an opening in the roof.

A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.

at a thousand doors they knocked. Dryden. Seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. Matt. vii. 7. To knock about, to go about, taking knocks or rough usage; to wander about; to saunter. [Colloq.] "Knocking about town." W. Irving. -- To knock up, to fail of strength; to become wearied or worn out…

's face or figure. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Matt. vil. 16. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him. Luke xxiv. 31. To know Faithful friend from flattering foe. Shak. At nearer view he thought he knew the dead. Flatman.

render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate in open tanks, or under pressure.

he name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture. It always has a Arch. Pub. Soc.

Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as oo (food), o (old), etc., and as eu and u in French, and ö, ü in German. See Guide to Pronunciation,

The modification of an articulation by contraction of the lip opening.

To modify by contraction of the lip opening.

The folds of integument at the opening of the vulva.