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The seventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, answering to a part of September with a part of October.

Traditional. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster.

Ceremonially unclean, according to the Jewish law; -- opposed to kosher.

An action for injuries accompanied with force. Trespass offering (Jewish Antiq.), an offering in expiation of a trespass. -- Trespass on the case. (Law) See Action on the case, under Case.

t vacating the authority of the precedent. Eikon Basilike. The necessity of observing the Jewish Sabbath was Vacated by the apostolical institution of the Lord's Day. R. Nelson.

The thirteenth, or intercalary, month of the Jewish ecclesiastical calendar, which is added about every third year.

from the wavelike color markings on the wings. -- Wave offering, an offering made in the Jewish services by waving the object, as a loaf of bread, toward the four cardinal points. Num. xviii. 11. -- Wave of vibration (Physics), a wave which consists in, or is occasioned by, the production and transmission of a vibrat…

Day; -- a Hebrew word used in the names of various Jewish feast days; as, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement; Yom Teruah (lit., day of shouting), the Feast of Trumpets.

The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May.

A Jewish cabalistic book attributed by tradition to Rabbi Simon ben Yochi, who lived about the end of the 1st century, a. d. Modern critics believe it to be a compilation of the 13th century. Encyc. Brit.