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Possessing in itself the property of emitting light. Sir D. Brewster.

designate a group of Asiatic and African languages, some living and some dead, namely: Hebrew and Phoenician, Aramaic, Assyrian, Arabic, Ethiopic (Geez and Ampharic). Encyc. Brit.

The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.

melting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)

aves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve…

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.

A line in the Scriptures; specifically (Hebrew Scriptures), one of the rhythmic lines in the poetical books and passages of the Old Treatment, as written in the oldest Hebrew manuscripts and in the Revised Version of the English Bible.

A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.

Among the Hebrews, a weight and denomination of money. For silver it was equivalent to 3,000 shekels, and in weight was equal to about 93

en through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope. Sir D. Brewster.

empestuous debate. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tem*pes"tu*ous*ness, n. They saw the Hebrew leader, Waiting, and clutching his tempestuous beard. Longfellow.

the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.

A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis. Milton.

The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.

A kind of ale brewed with brackish water obtained from a particular well; -- so called from the first brewer of it, one Thomas Tipper. [Eng.]

te of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale. Cowell.

ed from the twelve sons of Jacob. "The Lion of the tribe of Juda." Rev. v. 5. A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe. Shak.

The quality of being triliteral; as, the triliterality of Hebrew roots. W. D. Whitney.

Not equal; not of equal length. Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. Peacham.