"Gang-Week" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL
The time when the bounds of the parish are lustrated or gone over by the parish officers,—rogation week. Enc. Lond
I can speak of our baby like this to no one else. Who but his father would linger over the exact width of his gummy little smile or the blueness of his eyes, or the sweetness of his little lick of tawny hair on his forehead?
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On a drive in the country, a city slicker noticed a farmer lifting a pig up to an apple tree and holding the pig there as it ate one apple after another."Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about," said the city slicker, "but if you just shook the tree so the apples fell to the ground, wouldn't it save a lot of time?""Time?" said the farmer. "What does time matter to a pig?"
In English ecclesiastical law. A court of appeal belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Judge of which is called …
Read the complete definitionbató-bató - Dim. of bató. Also: to do a little at a time, pick up here and there, read and …
Read the complete definitionAn inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the …
Read the complete definitionIn English ecclesiastical law. An inferior parish officer, who is chosen b.v the vestry, and whose business is to attend …
Read the complete definitionTo be native to, or an inhabitant of; esp. to have a legal residence, settlement, or inhabitancy, whether by birth …
Read the complete definitionThe head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable.
Read the complete definitionOne who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
Read the complete definitionLand In Norfolk, so call-ed because it is not known to what parish lt belongs, and the minister who first …
Read the complete definitiond. 287.—Aot of parliament. A statute, law, or edict, made by the British sovereign, with the advice and consent of …
Read the complete definitionThe precinct and limits of a chapel. The same thing to a chapel as a parish is to a church. …
Read the complete definitionA church or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used.
Read the complete definitionA parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists …
Read the complete definitionA feast for the benefit of the parish clerk.
Read the complete definitionBeing composed or made up of. This word is not synonymous with “Including;” for the latter, when nsed in connection …
Read the complete definitionA spiritual court in England, belng a branch of, and annexed to, the Court of Arches. It has a jurisdiction …
Read the complete definitionSpiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate; hence, that which is committed …
Read the complete definitionIn ecclesiastical law. The ecclesiastical or spiritual charge of a parish, including the usual and regular duties of a miuister …
Read the complete definitionIn eoolesiastioal and old European law. An officer having supervision over ten; a dean. A term applied not only to …
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. A device, award, or decree; also a devise; also bounds or limits of division of a …
Read the complete definitiondúkà - A quick downward motion of the head from drowsiness, a nod; to let the head sink—,—drop—,—bend—, from drowsiness, …
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