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n days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next. I fast twice in the week. Luke xviii. 12.

The end of the week; specif., though loosely, the period observed commonly as a holiday, from Saturday noon or Friday night to Monday; as, to visit one for a week-end; also, a house party during a week-end.

Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.

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Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n.

Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions.

The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

Coming, or made, or done, once every half week; as, a semiweekly newspaper; a semiweekly trip. -- n.

Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, a triweekly newspaper. -- adv.

The week last past; last week.

In hotels, aplan upon which guests pay for both room and board by the day, week, or other convenient period; -- contrasted with European plan.

n anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

chamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. [Eng.] -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen. [Eng.]

Most; largest; as, the best part of a week. Best man, the only or principal groomsman at a wedding ceremony.

ny paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc. Bill of adventure. See under Adventure. -- Bill of costs, a statement of the items which form the total amount of the costs of a party to a suit or action. -- Bill of credit. (a) Wi…

The act of borrowing. [Obs.] Of your royal presence I'll adventure The borrow of a week. Shak.

The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on which Christmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc. The night of this day is boxing night. [Eng.]

ngement of the division of time, adapted to the purposes of civil life, as years, months, weeks, and days; also, a register of the year with its divisions; an almanac.

stop at some place designated, as for orders. He ordered her to call at the house once a week. Temple. To call for (a) To demand; to require; as, a crime calls for punishment; a survey, grant, or deed calls for the metes and bounds, or the quantity of land, etc., which it describes. (b) To give an order for; to reques…

der several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates. The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated. Macaulay.