stom-ach-er
(stum-kr)n. A heavily embroidered or jeweled garment formerly worn over the chest and stomach, especially by women.
mock-er-ies.
1. Scornfully contemptuous ridicule; derision. 2. A specific act of ridicule or derision. 3. An object of scorn or ridicule: made a mockery of the rules. 4. A false, derisive, or impudent imitation: The trial was a mockery of justice. 5. Something ludicrously futile or unsuitable: The few packages of food seemed a mockery in the face of such enormous destitution.
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base1
(bas)n. Abbr. b., B. 1. The lowest or bottom part: the base of a cliff; the base of a lamp. Biology. The part of an animal or plant organ nearest its point of attachment. 2. A supporting part or layer; a foundation: a skyscraper built on a base of solid rock. A basic or underlying element; infrastructure: the nation's industrial base. 3. The fundamental principle or underlying concept of a system or theory; a basis. 4. A fundamental ingredient; a chief constituent: a paint with an oil base. 5. The fact, observation, or premise from which a reasoning process is begun. 6.
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is-sue
(ishoo)n. 1. A point or matter of discussion, debate, or dispute: legal and moral issues. A matter of public concern: refused to address the economic issues. The essential point; crux: the issue of how to provide adequate child care. A culminating point leading to a decision: bring a case to an issue. 5. A place of egress; an outlet: a lake with no issue to the sea. 6. Pathology. A discharge, as of blood or pus. A lesion, a wound, or an ulcer producing such a discharge. 7. Archaic. Termination; close.v. is-sued, is-su-ing, is-sues.
American Heritage Talking Dictionary
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And
he
said
unto
the
woman,
Yea,
hath
God
said,
Ye
shall not eat of every tree
of
the garden?
And the woman said unto the serpent,
We
may eat of the fruit
of
the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit
of the tree
which is in the midst
of the
garden,
God
hath said,
Ye
shall not eat of it,
neither shall
ye
touch it,
lest ye die.
And the serpent said unto
the
woman,
Ye
shall not surely die:
For God
doth know
that in
the day
ye
eat thereof,
then your eyes shall be opened,
and
ye
shall be as gods,
knowing
good
and evil.
*
To whom then will
ye
liken me,
or
shall I be equal?
saith the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high,
and behold who hath created these things,
that bringeth out their host by number:
he calleth them all by names
by the
greatness of his might,
for that he is strong in power;
not one faileth.
Why sayest thou,
O Jacob,
and speakest,
O Israel,
My way is hid from the Lord,
and my judgment is passed over from my God?
Hast thou not known?
hast thou not heard,
that the everlasting God,
the Lord,
the Creator of the ends
of the earth,
fainteth not,
neither is weary?
there is no searching of his understanding.
He giveth power to the faint;
and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
and the young men shall utterly fall:
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run,
and not be weary;
and they shall walk,
and not faint.
*
and the fruit tree yielding fruit
after his kind,
whose seed is in itself,
upon the earth:
and it was
so.
**
And Cain talked with
Abel his brother:
and it
came to pass,
when they were
in the
field,
rose up against
Abel
his brother,
and slew
him.
*
So God created
man
in
his
own image,
*
They that
make
a
graven
image
are all
of
them vanity;
and their delectable things
shall not profit;
and they
are
their own witnesses;
they see not,
nor know;
that they may
be as ham ed.
Who hath formed a god,
or
molten
a
graven image
that is
profitable for nothing?
*
*
And the Lord
said
unto Cain,
Where is Abel
thy brother?
And
he
said,
I
know not:
*
When the Almighty
was yet with me,
when my children
were about me;
When
I
washed my steps with butter,
and the rock poured
me
out rivers
of
oil;
When
I
went out
to the gate through the city,
when
I
prepared my seat in the street!
The young men saw me,
and hid themselves:
and the aged arose,
and stood up.
The princes refrained talking,
and laid their hand on their mouth.
The nobles held their peace,
and their
tongue
cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
When the ear heard me,
then it blessed me;
and when the eye saw me,
it
gave witness to me:
Because
I
delivered
the
poor that cried,
and the fatherless,
and
him
that had none
to
help him.
After my words
they
spake not again;
and my speech
dropped upon them.
And they waited
for me
as
for the rain;
and
they
opened
their mouth wide
as
for the
latter rain.
*
that Cain
rose up
against
Abel
his
brother,
*
And in process
of
time it came to pass,
that Cain
brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.
And Abel,
he also
brought of the firstlings
of
his flock
and
of
the
fat thereof.
And the
Lord
had respect unto
Abel
and
to
his offering:
But unto Cain
and
to
his offering
he
had not respect.
And Cain
was
very wroth,
and his countenance fell.
And the Lord said unto Cain,
Why art thou wroth?
and why
is
thy
countenance fallen?
If thou doest well,
shalt thou not be accepted?
and if thou doest not well,
sin lieth at the door.
And unto
thee
shall be
his
desire,
*
And
I
will turn my hand upon thee,
and purely purge away thy dross,
and take away all thy tin:
And
I
will restore thy judges
as at
the first,
and thy
counsellors
as at
the beginning:
*
and thou shalt rule over him.
And Cain talked
with
Abel his brother:
and it came to pass,
*
These are the generations
of the
heaven and the earth.
*
And the
earth
was without
form,
and void;
*
and of the
earth
when
they
were created,
in the day
that the
Lord God
made the
earth
and the
heavens,
*
when they were in the field,
that Cain
rose up against Abel
his brother,
and slew him.
*
But now
they that are younger than
I
have me in derision,
whose fathers
I
would have disdained
to have set
with the dogs
of
my flock.
Yea,
whereto might the strength
of
their hands profit me,
*
Nevertheless
in the time
of
his old age
he
was diseased
in
his feet.
**
in
whom
old age was perished?
For want
and famine
they were solitary;
fleeing into the wilderness
in
former time
desolate and waste.
Who cut up mallows
by
the bushes,
and juniper roots
for
their meat.
They were driven forth
from
among men,
(they cried after them as after a thief;)
To dwell in the cliffs
of
the valleys,
in caves of the earth,
and in the rocks.
Among the bushes they brayed;
under the nettles they were gathered together.
They were children of fools,
*
And the earth
was
without form,
and void;
*
children of base men:
they were viler than the earth.
And now
am I
their song,
yea,
I am
their byword.
They abhor me,
they flee far from me,
and spare not to spit in my face.
Because
he hath loosed my cord,
and afflicted me,
they have also
let loose
the
bridle before me.
Upon my right hand rise the youth;
they push away my feet,
and
they raise up against me
the ways
of
their destruction.
They mar my path,
they set forward my calamity,
they have no helper.
**
And he said,
What
hast thou
done?
the voice
of
thy brother's
blood
crieth unto
me
from
the ground.
*
Because
thou hast
forgotten
the God
of
thy salvation,
and hast not been mindful
of
the
rock
of
thy
strength,
therefore
shalt
thou plant
pleasant plants,
and shalt
set it
with strange slips:
In the day
shalt thou
make
thy plant to grow,
and in the morning
shalt thou
make thy seed to flourish:
but the harvest shall be a heap
in the day
of
grief
and of desperate sorrow.
*
And Cain
said unto
the Lord,
My
punishment
is
greater than
I
can
bear.
Behold,
thou hast
driven
me
out this day
from
the
face
of the
earth;
and from
thy face
shall
I
be hid;
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.
And the Lord
said
unto him,
Therefore
whosoever slayeth
Cain,
vengeance
shall be taken
on him sevenfold.
And the Lord
set a
mark upon Cain,
lest any finding
him
should
kill him.
And Cain
went out
from
the presence
of
the Lord,
and dwelt in the land of Nod,
on the
east of Eden.
*
But of the fruit
of
the
tree
which
is in
the
midst
of
the garden,
God
hath said,
Ye
shall not eat of
it,
neither shall
ye
touch it,
lest ye die.
*
And the earth brought
forth
grass,
and herb
yielding seed
after
his kind,
and the
tree
yielding fruit,
whose
seed was
in it self,
after
his kind:
and God
saw that it was good.
**
And
the
Lord God
caused
a
deep sleep
to
fall upon
Adam,
*
For the Lord
hath poured
out upon
you the spirit
of
deep sleep,
and hath closed your eyes:
the prophets
and your rulers,
the seers
hath
he covered.
And the vision
of all
is
become unto you
as
the words
of a
book that is sealed,
which men deliver
to
one that is learned,
saying,
Read this,
I
pray thee:
and
he
saith,
I
cannot;
for it is sealed:
And the book
is
delivered to
him
that is
not learned,
saying,
Read this,
I
pray thee:
and he saith,
I am
not learned.
Wherefore
the Lord
said,
Forasmuch
as this
people draw near
me
with their mouth,
and with their lips
do honour me,
but
have removed their heart
far from
me,
and their fear toward
me
is taught
by the
precept of men:
Therefore,
behold,
I
will proceed to do
a
marvellous
work among this people,
even a
marvellous work
and a wonder:
for the wisdom
of
their wise men shall perish,
and the understanding
of
their prudent men shall be hid.
Woe unto them
that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord,
and their works
are in
the dark,
and they say,
Who seeth us?
and who knoweth us?
Surely your turning
of
things upside down shall
be
esteemed
as
the potter's clay:
for shall the work
say of
him that made it,
He made me not?
or shall
the thing
framed say
of him
that framed it,
He had no understanding?
*
and he slept:
*
and the darkness
he
called Night.
*
and he took
one
of
his ribs,
and
closed up
the
flesh instead
thereof;
*
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.
*
And it shall come
to
pass,
that instead
of sweet smell
there
shall be stink;
*
And when
they
lifted up
their eyes afar off,
and
knew him not,
they
lifted up their voice,
and wept;
and
they
rent every
one
his mantle,
and
sprinkled
dust upon their heads
toward heaven.
*
and instead
of a girdle a rent;
So
they sat down
with
him
upon the ground
seven days
and
seven nights,
and none
spake a word
unto
him:
*
and instead
of
well set hair
baldness;
and instead
of
a stomacher
a girding
of
sackcloth;
and burning
instead of beauty.
Thy men shall fall
by the sword,
and thy mighty
in
the war.
And her
gates
shall lament
and mourn;
and
she
being desolate
shall
sit upon
the
ground.
And in
that day
seven women
shall take hold
of
one man,
saying,
*
And the
woman
said
We
may eat
of
the fruit
of the
trees
of
the garden:
*
We will eat
our own
bread,
and wear
our own
apparel:
only
let us
be
called
by
thy
name,
*
And God said,
Let us make man
in
our
image,
*
to
take away
our
reproach.
In that day shall the branch
of the
Lord be beautiful
and glorious,
and the fruit
of the
earth shall be excellent
and comely
for them
that are escaped
of
Israel.
*
And the rib,
which the
Lord God
had taken from man,
made he a woman,
and brought
her
unto the man.
And Adam said,
This is now
bone
of
my bones,
and flesh
of
my flesh:
she
shall be called
Woman,
because
she
was taken
out of Man.
Therefore shall
a
man leave
his father
and his mother,
and shall cleave
unto
his wife:
and they shall
be
one flesh.
*
after his kind:
and God
saw
that it was good.
And they were both naked,
the man and his wife,
and were not as ham ed.
*
That the sons
of
God
saw the daughters
of
men
that they
were fair;
and
they
took
them
wives
of
all which
they chose.
*
And Cain knew
his wife;
and she conceived,
and bare Enoch:
*
And unto
Enoch
was born Irad: . . .
and Methusael
begat Lamech.
And Lamech
took unto him
two wives:
the name
of the
one was Adah,
and the name
of
the
other Zillah.
And Adah bare Jabal:
he
was the father
of
such as dwell in tents,
and of such as have cattle.
And his brother's
name was
Jubal:
he
was the father
of all
such as
handle
the harp and organ.
And Zillah,
she
also
bare Tubalcain,
an instructor
of
every artificer
in brass and iron:
and the sister
(daughter of Adah)
of
Tubalcain was Naamah.
(His wife)
**
And Adam knew
his
wife again;
and she bare a son,
and called
his name
Seth:
For God,
said she,
hath appointed
me
another seed
instead
of
Abel,
whom Cain slew.
And to Seth,
to
him
also
there
was
born a son;
*
Jubal:
he
was the father
of all
such as
handle
the harp and organ.
*
and he called
his
name Enos:
then began men
to
call upon
the
name of the Lord.
**
And now
art thou
cursed
from
the earth,
which hath
opened
her mouth
to
receive
thy
brother's blood
from
thy hand;
When thou tillest
the ground,
it
shall not henceforth yield
unto thee
her strength;
a fugitive
and a vagabond
shalt thou
be
in the
earth.
*
This is the book of the generations of Adam.
In the day
that God
created man,
in the
likeness
of
God
made he him;
Male and female
created
he them;
and blessed them,
and called their name
Adam,
in the day when
they
were created.
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