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A necromancer. [R.]

A ptysmagogue.

A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.

Severe discipline. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.

An agent which promotes the flow of saliva.

Of or pertaining to a synagogue.

st appointed after the return from the Babylonish captivity; -- called also the Great Synagogue, and sometimes, though erroneously, the Sanhedrin.

A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.

to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver .] he in synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17.

A schoolmaster; a pedagogue. [Scot.] This was Abel Sampson, commonly called, from occupation as a pedagogue, Dominie Sampson. Sir W. Scott.

experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.

To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.

imple approbation, which is a decision of judgment. It is the commencement of affection." Gogan. No; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price. Cowper.

duty, will not excuse him from guilt in practicing it, if really and indeed it be against Gog's law. Abp. Sharp.

lendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent. Cloud-land, gorgeous land. Coleridge. Gogeous as the sun at midsummer. Shak. -- Gor"geous*ly, adv. -- Gor"geous*ness, n.

he Kingdom of God, and salvation. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom. Matt. iv. 23. The steadfast belief of the promises of the gospel. Bentley.

Literally, a letter word; a word represented by a logogram; as, it, represented by |, that is, t. pitman.

One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

Close or near. Whose house joined hard to the synagogue. Acts xviii.7. Hard by, near by; close at hand; not far off. "Hard by a cottage chimney smokes." Milton. -- Hard pushed, Hard run, greatly pressed; as, he was hard pushed or hard run for time, money, etc. [Colloq.] -- Hard up, closely pressed by want or necessity…

eduction from indigo blue, and by oxidation easily changed back to it; -- called also indigogen. -- Indigo yellow, a substance obtained from indigo.