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A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only. [Obs.]

ull as good. Dryden. The diapason closing full in man. Dryden. Full in the center of the sacred wood. Addison.

t. Luke xxi. 15. The just gods gainsay That any drop thou borrow'dst from thy mother, My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword Be drained. Shak.

n. It is given me once again to behold my friend. Rowe. Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine. Pope.

instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle. And all along the forum and up the sacred seat, His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small glancing feet. Macaulay.

To pick up or gather anything by degrees. Piecemeal they this acre first, then that; Glean on, and gather up the whole estate. Pope.

gods, the occupants of the highest and cheapest gallery of a theater. [Colloq.] -- God's acre, God's field, a burial place; a churchyard. See under Acre. -- God's house. (a) An almshouse. [Obs.] (b) A church. -- God's penny, earnest penny. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. -- God's Sunday, Easter.

A wiseacre; a person deficient in wisdom; -- so called from Gotham, in Nottinghamshire, England, noted for some pleasant blunders. Bp. Morton.

A sacred government; by holy orders of men. Southey.

, Pertaining to the hagiographa, or to sacred writings.

One who treats of the sacred writings; a writer of the lives of the saints; a hagiographer. Tylor. Hagiologists have related it without scruple. Southey.

The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints. J. H. Newman.

ricted to a genus including a limited number of species having omnivorous habits, as the sacred kingfisher (Halcyon sancta) of Australia. Amidst our arms as quiet you shall be As halcyons brooding on a winter sea. Dryden.

Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths. [Archaic] So God me help and halidom. Piers Plowman. By my halidom, I was fast asleep. Shak.

To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [Ge…

The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).

; as, a thousand head of cattle. It there be six millions of people, there are about four acres for every head. Graunt.

superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

oclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character.

of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres. [Written also hyde.]