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To bring from far; to seek out studiously. [Obs.] To farfetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew word. Fuller.

A word found in the Authorized Version of the Bible, representing different Hebrew originals. In Isaiah xxviii. 25, 27, it means the black aromatic seeds of Nigella sativa, still used as a flavoring in the East. In Ezekiel iv. 9, the Revised Version now reads spelt.

To trick up in a showy manner. Limning and flashing it with various dyes. A. Brewer.

Producing wind; flatulent. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

the habits of some animals of running back over the same track to mislead their pursuers. Brewer.

ns at equal rates of duty. -- Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. Simmonds. -- Free school. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by…

A Hebrew measure. See Homer.

The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation; hence, any residuum. Also called draff.

Fermented wort used for making vinegar. Gyle tan (Brewing), a large vat in which wort ferments.

The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

Of or pertaining to the Hebrews, or to the language of the Hebrews.

After the manner of the Hebrews or of the Hebrew language.

A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language. Addison.

One versed in the Hebrew language and learning.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Hebrew language or idiom.

To convert into the Hebrew idiom; to make Hebrew or Hebraistic. J. R. Smith.

The place of the dead, or of souls after death; the grave; -- called in Hebrew sheol, and by the Greeks hades. He descended into hell. Book of Common Prayer. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. Ps. xvi. 10.

A native of either ancient or modern Greece; a Greek. Brewer.

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure. W. H. Ward.

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]