im-age
(imij)n. 1. A reproduction of the form of a person or an object,
especially a sculptured likeness. 2. Physics. An optically formed
duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an
object, especially an optical reproduction of an object formed by a lens
or mirror. 3. One that closely or exactly resembles another; a double: He
is the image of his uncle. 4. The
opinion or concept of something that is held by the public. The
character projected to the public, as by a person or an institution,
especially as interpreted by the mass media. 5. A personification of
something specified: That child is the image of good health. 6. A mental
picture of something not real or present. 7.
A vivid description or representation. A figure of speech, especially a
metaphor or simile. A concrete representation, as in art, literature, or music,
that is expressive or evocative of something else: night as an image of death.
8. Mathematics. A set of values of a function corresponding to a particular
subset of a domain. 9. Computer Science. An exact copy of data in a file
transferred to another medium. 10. Obsolete. An apparition.v. tr. im-aged,
im-ag-ing, im-ag-es. 1. To make or produce a likeness of. 2. To mirror or
reflect. 3. To symbolize or typify. 4. To picture (something) mentally;
imagine. 5. To describe, especially so vividly as to evoke a mental picture of.
6. Computer Science. To translate (photographs or other pictures) by computer
into numbers that can be transmitted to a remote location and then reconverted
into pictures by another computer. 7. To visualize (something), as by magnetic
resonance imaging.[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin
imago.]--im'age-less adj.
rend (rend)v. rent
(rent). or rend-ed rend-ing, rends.v.
tr. 1. To tear or split apart or into pieces violently.
See Synonyms at tear1. 2. To tear (one's garments or hair) in
anguish or rage. 3.
To tear away forcibly; wrest. 4. To pull, split, or divide as if by
tearing: "Chip was rent between the impulse to laugh wildly and a
bitterness that threatened hot tears" (Louis Auchincloss). 5. To pierce or
disturb with sound: a scream rent the silence. 6. To cause pain or distress to:
tales that rend the heart.v. intr. To become torn or split; come apart.[Middle
English renden, from Old English rendan.]
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rec-om-pense
(rekm-pens)v. tr. rec-om-pensed, rec-om-pens-ing, rec-om-pens-es. 1. To
award compensation to: recompensed the victims of the accident. 2. To award
compensation for; make a return for: recompensed their injuries.n. 1. Amends
made, as for damage or loss. 2. Payment in return for something, such as
a service. [Middle English recompensen, from Old French recompenser, from
Late Latin recompensare : Latin re-, re- + Latin compensare, to compensate. See
COMPENSATE.]
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man-tle (mantl)n.
1. A loose, sleeveless coat worn over outer garments; a cloak. 2. Something that covers, envelops, or conceals: "On a
summer night ... a mantle of dust hangs over the gravel roads"
(John Dollard). 3. Variant of mantel.
4. The outer covering of a wall. 5. A zone of hot gases around a flame. 6. A
device in gas lamps consisting of a sheath of threads that gives off brilliant
illumination when heated by the flame. 7. Anatomy. The cerebral cortex. 8.
Geology. The layer of the earth between the crust and the core. 9. The
outer wall and casing of a blast furnace above the hearth. 10. The wings,
shoulder feathers, and back of a bird when differently colored from the rest of
the body. 11. Zoology. A fold or pair
of folds of the body wall that lines the shell and secretes the substance that
forms the shell in mollusks and brachiopods. The soft outer wall lining the
shell of a tunicate or barnacle.v. man-tled, man-tling, man-tles.v. tr. To
cover with or as if with a mantle; conceal. See Synonyms at clothe.v. intr. 1.
To spread or become extended over a surface. 2. To become covered with a
coating, as scum or froth on the surface of a liquid. 3. To be overspread
by blushes or colors: a face that was mantled in joy.[Middle English, from Old
English mentel, and from Old French mantel, both from Latin mantellum.]
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as-say (asa, a-sa)n. 1.
Qualitative
or quantitative analysis of a substance,
especially of an ore or drug, to determine its components. A substance
to be so analyzed. The result of such an analysis. 2. An analysis or
examination. 3. Archaic. An attempt; an essay.v. as-sayed, as-say-ing,
as-says (a-sa, asa).v. tr. 1. To subject to chemical analysis. 2. To examine
by trial or experiment; put to a test: assay one's ability to speak
Chinese. 3. To evaluate; assess: assayed the situation before taking action.
See Synonyms at estimate. 4. To attempt; try.v. intr. To be shown by analysis
to contain a certain proportion of usually precious metal.[Middle English, from
Old French essai, assai. See ESSAY.]--as-say'a-ble adj. --as-say'er n.
American Heritage Dictionary
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buffet verb
buf·fet | \ ˈbə-fət
\
buffeted; buffeting; buffets
Definition of buffet (Entry 2 of 4)
transitive verb
1: to strike sharply especially with the
hand : CUFF 2: to strike repeatedly : BATTER the waves buffeted the shore3: to
drive, force, move, or attack by or as if by repeated blows schools being
buffeted by budget cuts
Synonyms: Verb
bash, baste, bat, batter, beat, belabor,
belt, birch, bludgeon, bung up, club, curry, do, drub, fib [British], flog,
hammer, hide, lace, lambaste (or lambast), lash, lather, lick, maul, mess (up),
paddle, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punch out, rough (up), slate, slog,
switch, tan, thrash, thresh, thump, tromp, wallop, whale, whip, whop (or whap),
whup, work over
Webster
Dictionary
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in
the
image
of
God
created
he
*
called
Night.
*
him;
male
and
female
created
*
he
called Night.
*
he
them.
*
And
it
came
to pass,
when
he
began
to reign,
as
soon
as
he
sat
on his
throne,
that
he
slew
all the house of Baasha:
he
left
him
not
one
that
pisseth against a wall,
neither
of his kinsfolks,
nor
of
his
friends.
**
Now when
Job's
three friends
heard
of
all this
evil
that was
come upon
him,
*
yielding
fruit
after
his
kind,
*
and
I
shall
be a fugitive
and
a vagabond
in the
earth;
and it
shall
come to pass,
that
every
one
that findeth
me
shall
slay
me.
*
they
came
every one
*
that
Jacob
said
unto
Laban,
Send
me away,
that
I
may
go unto
mine
own
place,
and
to my
country.
*
his
own place;
Eliphaz the
Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite:
for they
had made an appointment together
to come to mourn
*
with him and to comfort him.
And
when they
lifted
up
their
eyes afar
off,
*
Where is Abel
thy brother?
And he said,
I know not:
*
and knew him
not,
they lifted
up
their voice,
and wept;
*
And
he
knew
it,
and
said,
It
is my
son's coat;
an
evil beast hath devoured
him;
Joseph
is without
doubt
rent
in pieces.
And Jacob
rent his
clothes,
and put
sackcloth
upon
his
loins,
and
mourned
for
his son
many days.
*
and they
rent
every one
his
mantle,
*
Then Job
arose,
and rent
his mantle,
and shaved his head,
and fell down
upon
the ground,
and worshipped,
And said,
Naked came
I
out of
my
mother's womb,
and naked shall
I
return thither:
the Lord gave,
and the Lord
hath taken away;
blessed be the name
of the Lord.
In all this Job sinned not,
nor charged God foolishly.
*
Therefore
as the fire devoureth the stubble,
and the
flame consumeth the chaff,
so
their root shall be as rottenness,
and their blossom shall go
up as dust:
because they
have cast away the law of the
Lord
of
hosts,
and despised the
word
of the
Holy
One of Israel.
*
and sprinkled
dust
upon their heads
toward heaven.
So
they sat down
with
him
upon the ground
seven
days
and
seven nights,
and
none
spake a word
unto him:
**
After
this opened Job his mouth,
and cursed
his day.
*
And
all flesh died that moved upon
the earth,
*
And
they were both naked,
the
man
and
his wife,
and
were not ashamed.
*
both
of fowl,
and
of cattle,
and
of beast,
and
of every creeping thing
that
creepeth
upon the earth,
and
every
man:
All
in whose nostrils was the breath of life,
of
all
that was
in the dry land, died.
*
And
Job
spake,
and
said,
Let the day perish
wherein
I
was
born,
and
the
night
in which
it was
said,
There is a
man child conceived.
**
for they
saw
that his
grief
was very great.
**
What?
shall we receive
good
at the
hand of God,
and shall
we
not receive
evil?
**
While
he
was yet speaking,
there came
also another,
and
said,
The Chaldeans
made out
three bands,
and
fell upon the camels,
and have
carried them away,
yea,
and
slain the servants with the edge of the sword;
and I
only am
escaped alone to tell thee.
**
from
his
own place;
Eliphaz the
Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite:
for they
had made an appointment together
to come to mourn
*
And he
said,
Who
told thee
that thou
wast naked?
Hast thou eaten of the
tree,
whereof
I
commanded
thee
that thou
shouldest
not eat?
*
If we
have forgotten the name
of
our God,
or
stretched out
our hands to a strange god;
Shall
not God search this out?
for he
knoweth the secrets
of
the heart.
**
We
grope for the wall like the blind,
and we grope as if we had no eyes:
we stumble at noon day as in the
night;
we are in desolate places as dead men.
We roar all like bears,
and mourn sore like doves:
we look for judgment,
but there is none;
for salvation,
but
it is
far off from us.
For our
transgressions
are
multiplied before thee,
and our sins testify against
us:
for our transgressions are with us;
and as for our inequities,
we know them;
*
If we
assay to commune with
thee,
wilt thou be grieved?
*
In that day
a man
shall cast his idols
of silver,
and his idols
of gold,
which they made
each one
for
himself to worship,
to the moles
and to the bats;
*
And Moses
and Aaron
were brought
again
unto
Pharaoh:
and he said unto
them,
Go,
serve the
Lord your
God:
but
who
are they
that shall go?
And Moses
said,
We
will go
with our young
and with our old,
with our sons
and with
daughters,
with our
flocks
and with our
herds will
we go;
for we
must hold
a feast unto the Lord.
*
And he did so,
walking naked
and barefoot.
*
And
said,
Naked
came
I
out
of
my mother's
womb,
and
naked shall I return thither:
*
And he
said,
Who
told thee
that thou
wast naked?
*****
but who
can withhold himself
from speaking?
Behold,
thou hast instructed many,
and thou hast
strengthened
the weak hands.
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For thou hast
delivered
my
soul from
death:
wilt not thou deliver
my feet
from falling,
that I
may walk before
God in
the light
of
the living?
*
Thy words have upholden him that was falling,
*
Strengthen ye the weak hands,
and confirm the feeble knees.
Say to them
that are
of a
fearful heart,
Be strong,
fear not:
behold,
your God
will come with vengeance,
even God
with a recompence;
he
will come
and save you.
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and thou hast strengthened
the feeble knees.
But now
it
is
come upon thee,
and thou faintest;
it toucheth thee,
and thou art troubled.
Is not this thy fear,
thy confidence,
thy hope,
and the uprightness of thy
ways?
Remember,
I pray thee,
who ever perished,
being innocent?
or where were the
righteous cut off?
Even as I have seen,
they that plow inequity,
and sow wickedness,
reap
the same.
. . .
The old lion perisheth for lack
of prey,
*
He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord:
*
and the stout lion's whelps
are scattered abroad.
. . . Now
a thing was secretly brought to
me,
and mine ear received a little thereof.
In thoughts from the visions of the night,
when deep sleep falleth on men,
Fear came upon me,
and trembling,
which made all my bones to shake.
Then
a spirit
passed before
my face;
*
And the
priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the
flesh:
and when the
hair in the plague is turned white,
and the
plague in sight be deeper than the
skin of his flesh,
it is a plague of
leprosy:
and the priest
shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
*
the hair of my flesh
stood up:
It
stood still,
but I
could not discern the form thereof:
an image was before mine eyes, there was silence,
and I heard a voice,
saying,
Shall mortal man be more just than God?
shall a man be more pure than his maker?
Behold,
he
put no trust
in
his servants;
and his angels
he
charged with folly:
How much less in them that dwell in houses
of clay,
whose foundation
is in the dust,
which are crushed
before the moth?
*
They are destroyed
from
morning to evening:
*
Behold,
the
Lord God
will help me;
who
is he
that shall condemn me?
lo,
they all shall wax old
as
a
garment;
the
moth
shall eat them up.
*
they perish for ever without any regarding it
Lo this,
we have searched it,
so
it is;
hear it,
and know thou it for thy good.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,
and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,
like as a shock of corn cometh
in in his season.
Lo this,
we have searched it,
so it is;
hear it,
and
know thou
it
for
thy good.
*
And it was
so,
when the days
of
their
feasting were gone about,
that Job
sent
and sanctified
them,
*
But Job
answered
and said, . . .
. . . Oh that my grief were throughly weighed,
and my calamity laid in the balances
together! . . .
not
an
appointed time
to
man upon earth?
are not
his days also
like the days
of
an hireling?
As a servant
earnestly desireth
the shadow,
and as an hireling looketh
for
the reward
of
his work:
So
am I
made to possess
months of vanity,
and
wearisome nights
are
appointed to me.
When
I
lie down,
I say,
When shall
I arise,
and the night be gone?
and
I am
full of tossings
to and fro
unto the dawning
of the day.
My flesh
is
clothed with worms
and clods of dust;
my skin is broken,
and become loathsome.
My days are swifter
than a
weaver's shuttle,
and are spent without
hope.
O
remember
that my life is wind:
mine eye shall
no more see good.
The eye
of
him
that hath seen me
shall
see me no more:
to
the grave shall
come up no more.
**
And the officers
shall speak
unto the
people,
saying,
is there
that hath built a new house,
and hath not dedicated it?
let him go
and return
to his house,
lest
he
die in the
battle,
and another man dedicate it.
*
He shall return no more
to his house,
neither shall
his place
know him any more.
Therefore
I
will not refrain my mouth;
I
will speak in the anguish
of
my spirit;
I
will complain
in
the
bitterness
of
my soul.
Am I
a sea,
or a whale,
that thou
settest a watch over me?
When I say,
My bed
shall comfort me,
my couch shall ease my complaint;
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And God saw
that the wickedness of man was great
in the earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was
only
evil continually.
*
And Satan
answered the Lord,
and said,
Skin for skin,
yea,
all
that a man
hath will
he
give
for his life.
**
Then the devil
taketh him
up into
the
holy city,
and setteth him on a
pinnacle
of
the
temple,
And saith unto him,
If thou
be the
Son of God,
cast thyself
down:
for it
is written,
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He cast upon them the
fierceness
of
his anger,
wrath,
and indignation,
and trouble,
by sending
evil
angels among them.
*
He
shall give
his
angels charge concerning thee:
and in
their
hands
they shall bear thee up,
lest
at any
time
thou dash
thy foot
against a stone.
*
there is bdellium
and the onyx stone.
*
Immanuel
said unto him,
It is written
again,
Thou shalt not tempt
the
Lord thy
God.
Again,
the devil
taketh
him up
into an
exceeding high mountain,
and sheweth
him
all the kingdoms
of the
world,
and the glory of them;
And saith unto him,
All these things
will I give thee,
if
thou
wilt fall down
and worship me.
Then saith Immanuel unto
him,
Get thee hence,
Satan:
for it is written,
Thou shalt worship the Lord
thy God,
and
him only shalt thou serve.
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Then thou
scarest
me
with
dreams,
and terrifiest me through visions:
So that my soul chooseth
strangling, and death
rather than
my life.
*
And the Lord
said,
My spirit shall
not
always
strive with
man,
for that
he
also is flesh:
**
I loathe it;
I
would not live
alway:
let me alone;
for my days are vanity.
What
is man,
that thou shouldest magnify him?
and that
thou shouldest
set thine
heart upon him?
And that thou shouldest
visit
him
every morning,
and try him every moment?
How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone . . .
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Then the high priest
rent
his clothes,
saying,
He hath spoken blasphemy;
what
further need have
we
of
witnesses?
behold,
now ye have heard his blasphemy.
What
think ye?
They
answered
and said,
He
is guilty of death.
Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him;
and others
smote him with the palms of their hands,
Saying,
Prophesy unto
us,
thou Christ,
Who
is he
that smote thee?
**
till I
swallow down my spittle?
I have sinned;
what shall I do unto
thee,
O
thou
preserver of men?
why hast thou set me as a mark against thee,
so
that I am
a burden to myself?
And why dost thou not pardon my
transgression, and take away mine inequity?
for now
shall
I sleep in the dust;
and thou
shalt seek me
in
the morning,
but
I
shall not be.
So
these three
men
ceased
to
answer Job,
because
he
was righteous
in
his
own eyes.
Then was kindled
the wrath of Elihu the son
of
Barachel
the
Buzite,
of
the
kindred
of Ram:
against
Job
was
his
wrath kindled,
because
he
justified
himself
rather than
God.
Also
against
his three
friends was his wrath kindled,
because they had found no
answer,
and yet had
condemned
Job.
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