Spirit
The
vital principle or
animating force within living beings. Incorporeal consciousness.
2. The soul, considered as departing from the body of a person at death.
3. Spirit. The Holy Spirit. 4. Spirit. Christian Science. God. 5. A supernatural
being, as: An angel or a demon. A being inhabiting or embodying a
particular place, object, or natural phenomenon. A fairy or sprite.
6. The part of a human being
associated with the mind, will, and feel
ings: Though unable to
join us today, they are with us in spirit. The essential nature of a person or
group. 7. A person as characterized by a stated quality: He is a proud spirit.
8. An inclination or a tendency of a
specified kind: Her actions show a generous spirit. A causative, activating, or
essential principle: The couple's engagement was announced in a joyous spirit.
9. spirits. A mood or an emotional
state: The guests were in high spirits. His sour spirits put a damper on the
gathering. 10. A particular mood or an emotional state characterized by vigor
and animation: sang with spirit. 11. Strong loyalty or dedication: team spirit.
12. The predominant mood of an occasion or a period: "The spirit of 1776
is not dead" (Thomas Jefferson). 13. The actual though unstated sense or
significance of something: the spirit of the law. 14. Often spirits n (used with a sing. verb. An
alcohol solution of an essential or volatile substance). 15. spirits. An alcoholic beverage, especially
distilled liquor.v. tr. spir-it-ed, spir-it-ing, spir-its. 1. To carry off
mysteriously or secretly: The documents had been spirited away. 2. To impart
courage, animation, or determination to; inspirit.[Middle English, from Old
French espirit, from Latin spiritus, breath, from spirare, to breathe.]
bul-wark
(boolwrk, -work, bul-)n. 1. A wall or
embankment raised as a defensive fortification; a rampart. 2. Something
serving as a defense or safeguard: "We have seen the necessity of
the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger" (James
Madison). 3. A breakwater. 4. Often bulwarks.
Nautical. The part of a ship's side that is above the upper deck.v. tr.
bul-warked, bul-wark-ing, bul-warks. 1. To fortify with a wall, an embankment,
or a rampart. 2. To provide defense or protection for.[Middle English bulwerk,
from Middle Dutch bolwerk, from Middle High German bolwerc : bole, plank. See
bhel-2. + werc, work (from Old High German. See werg-.]
by-word also byword
(biwurd)n. 1.
A proverbial expression; a proverb. An often-used word or phrase.
2. One that represents a type, class, or quality: "Polyester
got its declasse reputation in the 1970s after cheap, poorly made
double-knit leisure suits became a byword for bad taste"
(Fortune). 3. An object of notoriety or interest: The eccentric
poet was a byword in literary circles. 4. An epithet.[Middle English
byworde, from Old English biword, translation of Latin proverbium.]
Excerpted from American Heritage Dictionary
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and
the
waters
shall
no
more
become
a
flood to destroy
all
flesh.
*
Noah
was a
just man
and
perfect in his
generations,
and Noah walked
with God.
*
And
the
bow
shall
be in
the
cloud;
and
I
will
look upon it,
*
And
the Lord
said,
I
will
destroy man
whom I
have
created
from
the
face
of
the
earth;
both
man,
and
beast,
*
And
the
Lord
God
said
unto
the
serpent,
Because
thou
hast done this,
thou art
cursed
above all
cattle,
*
Behold
now,
I know
that
thou
art
a
fair woman to look upon:
*
and
above every beast
of
the field;
upon
thy belly
shalt thou go,
and
dust
shalt thou eat all the days of
thy
life:
And
I
will
put
enmity between
thee
and
the woman,
and
between thy seed
and
her
seed;
it
shall bruise thy head,
and
thou shalt
bruise his heel.
*
Whatsoever
goeth
upon
the
belly,
**
Yet these
may ye
eat
of
every flying creeping thing that goeth upon
all
four,
which
have legs above their feet,
to
leap
withal upon the earth;
Even
these
of
them
ye may eat;
*
And she
said
to
her
father,
Let
it not
displease
my
lord
that
I
cannot
rise up
before thee;
for the
custom
of women
is upon
me.
And
he
searched,
but
found not
the images.
*
the
locust after
his
kind,
and
the bald locust after his kind,
and
the beetle after his kind,
and
the grasshopper after his kind.
*
And
thou
shalt
make for
it four
rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on
the four feet thereof.
*
But all other flying
creeping
things,
which
have four feet, shall be an abomination
unto you.
And
for
these
ye
shall
be
unclean:
whosoever
toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until
the even.
**
and
whatsoever
goeth
upon all four,
or
whatsoever
hath more
feet among all creeping things
that
creep upon the earth,
them
ye
shall
not eat;
for
they are an abomination.
*
and
the creeping thing,
and
the fowls of the air;
for
it
repenteth
me
that
I
have
made them.
*
that I
may
remember the everlasting covenant between God
and
every living creature of all flesh
*
For the day of the Lord of hosts
shall be upon every one
that is
proud and lofty,
and upon every one
**
and bare
up
the
ark,
and
it
was
lift up above the earth.
*
that is
lifted up;
and he
shall be brought low:
*
that is
upon
the earkh.
For Tophet
is
ordained
of old;
yea,
for the king
it is
prepared;
he
hath made it deep and large:
the pile
thereof is fire
and much wood;
the breath
of the
Lord ISamuelYea,
like a stream
of
brimstone,
doth kindle it.
Woe to them that go down
to Egypt for help; and stay on horses,
and trust in chariots,
because they are many;
and in horsemen,
because they are very strong;
but they
look not unto the
Holy One
of Israel,
neither seek
the Lord!
Yet
he also
is wise,
and will bring evil,
and will not call back
his words:
but will arise against the house of the evildoers,
and against the help of them that work inequity.
*
wherefore
it
is said,
Even
as Nimrod
the
mighty
hunter
before
the
Lord.
And
the beginning
of
his
kingdom
was Babel,
*
And
the earkh
was
without form,
and
void;
*
and
Erech,
and
Accad,
and
Calneh,
*
He discovereth deep things out of darkness,
and bringeth
out to light the shadow
of death.
*
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.
*
and
man became a living soul.
*
He increaseth the nations,
and destroyeth
them:
he enlargeth the nations,
and straiteneth them again.
He taketh away the heart of the
chief of the people of the earth,
and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no
way.
They
grope in
the dark
without light,
*
and
Erech,
and
Accad,
and
Calneh,
*
and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.
*
and
darkness
was
upon
the
face
of
the
deep.
And
the
Spirit
of
God moved
upon
the face
of
the
waters.
*
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought,
and the rock
is removed out
of his place.
The waters wear the stones:
thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust
of the earth;
and thou
destroyest the hope
of man.
ISamuelO
