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nounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.

es; that which impairs or destroys. A blight seemed to have fallen over our fortunes. Disraeli.

To flourish and prosper. Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit. Isa. xxvii. 6.

any fungus of the family Boletaceae. [WordNet 1.5]

n a contemptuous sense. "This brat is none of mine." Shak. "A beggar's brat." Swift. O Israel! O household of the Lord! O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed! Gascoigne.

A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling. [North of Eng. & Scot.] Fairfax.

with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.

Swelling out in bunches. An unshapen, bunchy spear, with bark unpiled. Phaer.

p. a member of any of the tribes who inhabited Canaan at the time of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.

the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

Aee under Force.

A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

al red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion. Cinnabar Græcorum (. Etym: [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure cinnabar of…

a, i.e., exclusive of the sponges. They are so named from presence of stinging cells (cnidae) in the tissues. See Coelenterata.

A partner in a lease taen.

To take in coal; as, the steaer coaled at Southampton.

An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.

One of the ten laws or precepts given by God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

actions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.

are commitment to the Tower. Clarendon. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew. Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras.