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Eden

The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt hence a delightful region or residence...


Eve

Evening...


Even

Evening See Eve n 1...


Night Before Christmas

The popular name for a poem by Clement Clarke Moore titled A Visit from St Nicholas a popular poem with the theme of St Nicholas Santa Claus coming to bring gifts to children on Christmans eve...


Puttyroot

An American orchidaceous plant Aplectrum hyemale which flowers in early summer Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm filled with exceedingly glutinous matter which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf Called also Adam and Eve...


Rheum

A serous or mucous discharge especially one from the eves or nose...


VerbarRidotto

A favorite Italian public entertainment consisting of music and dancing held generally on fast eves...


Fast-day

Fast-day, a day of mortification by religious ab-stinence. See a list of Church of England Fast-days in the Prayer-book Calendar Scheduled to the (English) Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 3, c. 23), and see also the still unrepealed 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3 (printed in the second revised edition of the statutes published by authority in 1888), by which the eves of Christmas Day and other holy days are 'commanded to be fasted,' and arch-bishops, bishops and others are authorized to inquire of every person offending in the premises, and to punish offenders by the censures of the Church, and to enjoin them such penance as shall be to the spiritual judge by his discretion thought meet and convenient. 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 19, however, providing for abstinence from flesh in Lent or on Fridays or Saturdays, which was expressly saved by s. 4 of this Act, has been repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64, with many other disused Acts.Fast-days may also be appointed on special occasions by royal proclamati...


Occupied

Occupied, occupation of a licensee, therefore, is to be deemed, in the eve of law, as the occupation of the licensor, Durga Das v. F. Balak Ram, AIR 1973 P&H 326 (328)....


Offices of the Supreme Court

Offices of the Supreme Court. The offices of the Supreme Court are to be open every day except Sundays, Good Friday, Easter Eve, Monday and Tuesday in Easter Week, White Monday, the first Monday in August, Christmas-day and the next following working day, and all days appointed by proclamation to be observed as days of general fast, humiliation, or thanksgiving, the day appointed to be kept as the King's birthday, and such days as the Lord Chancellor, with the concurrence of the Lord Chief Justice, the Master of the Rolls and the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, shall direct, (English) R.S.C., Ord. LXIII., r. 6 (as amended)As to the vacations in the offices of the Supreme Court, see VACATION....


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