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Rogation Week
Rogation Week [fr. rogando (Deum), Lat., supplicating God], the second week before Whit Sunday; thus called from three fasts observed therein, the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, called Rogation days, because of the extraordinary prayers then made...
Soon before
Soon before, the expression 'soon before' is a relative term which requires to be construed in the context of specific circumstances of each case and no hard-and-fast rule of any universal application can be laid down...
Parbuckle
A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden as a cask The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft and both parts are looped around the object which rests in the...
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Pinchers
An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot used for griping things to be held fast drawing nails etc
Fastening
Anything that binds and makes fast as a lock catch bolt bar buckle etc
nonviolence
The theory doctrine or practice of peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate
Fasten
To fix firmly to make fast to secure as by a knot lock bolt etc as to fasten a chain to the feet to fasten a door or window
franchise
franchise [Anglo-French, literally, freedom, liberty, from Middle French, from franchir to free, from Old French franc free] 1 : a special right or privilege granted by the government to an individual, group, or business entity: as...
Bind
To tie or confine with a cord band ligature chain etc to fetter to make fast as to bind grain in bundles to bind a prisoner
Cheetah
A species of leopard Cynaeliglurus jubatus tamed and used for hunting in India The woolly cheetah of South Africa is Cynaeliglurus laneus It runs very fast in short spurts while hunting
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