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salem
(encz) | Salem,hl.m. - Oregon v USA n: [jmén.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překlad |
salem
(encz) | Salem,Salem n: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
salem
(czen) | Salem,Salemn: [jmén.] příjmení, okres v USA Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
salem
(wn) | Salem
n 1: capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of
the state on the Willamette River [syn: Salem, {capital
of Oregon}]
2: a city in northeastern Massachusetts; site of the witchcraft
trials in 1692
3: a city in southern India |
salem
(foldoc) | SALEM
["SALEM - A Programming System for the Simulation of Systems
Described by Partial Differential Equations", S.M. Morris et
al, Proc SJCC 33(1), 1968].
(1994-12-08)
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jerusalem
(mass) | Jerusalem
- Jeruzalem |
going to jerusalem
(encz) | going to Jerusalem, n: |
jerusalem
(encz) | Jerusalem,hl.m. - Izrael n: [jmén.] Zdeněk Brož a automatický překladJerusalem,Jeruzalém [zem.] n: |
jerusalem artichoke
(encz) | Jerusalem artichoke,druh artyčoku Zdeněk Brož |
jerusalem cherry
(encz) | Jerusalem cherry, |
jerusalem cross
(encz) | Jerusalem cross, |
jerusalem oak
(encz) | Jerusalem oak, |
jerusalem sage
(encz) | Jerusalem sage, |
winston-salem
(encz) | Winston-Salem,město - Spojené státy americké n: [jmén.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
Jerusalem
(gcide) | Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr.
'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.]
The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the
glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
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Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,
sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
(a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower
(Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used
as food.
(b) One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two
species of Solanum (Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and
Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house
plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of
cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ({Chenopodium
Botrys}), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family
(Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree
(Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm
countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
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Jerusalem artichoke
(gcide) | Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr.
'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.]
The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the
glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
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Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,
sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
(a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower
(Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used
as food.
(b) One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two
species of Solanum (Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and
Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house
plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of
cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ({Chenopodium
Botrys}), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family
(Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree
(Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm
countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
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Jerusalem cherry
(gcide) | Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr.
'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.]
The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the
glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
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Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,
sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
(a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower
(Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used
as food.
(b) One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two
species of Solanum (Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and
Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house
plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of
cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ({Chenopodium
Botrys}), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family
(Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree
(Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm
countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
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Jerusalem cucumber
(gcide) | Cucumber \Cu"cum*ber\ (k?`k?m-b?r, formerly kou"k?m-b?r), n.
[OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis,
gen.cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre,F. concombre.] (Bot.)
A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the
genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of
which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants
or fruits of several other genera. See below.
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Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus Colocynthis syn.
Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth.
Cucumber beetle. (Zool.)
(a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris),
which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon
vines.
(b) The squash beetle.
Cucumber tree.
(a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia
(Magnolia acuminata), so called from a slight
resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber.
(b) An East Indian plant (Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces
the fruit known as bilimbi.
Jamaica cucumber, Jerusalem cucumber, the prickly-fruited
gherkin (Cucumis Anguria).
Snake cucumber, a species (Cucumis flexuosus) remarkable
for its long, curiously-shaped fruit.
Squirting cucumber, a plant (Ecbalium Elaterium) whose
small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe
and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force
through the opening thus made. See Elaterium.
Star cucumber, a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with
prickly fruit.
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Jerusalem oak
(gcide) | Oak \Oak\ ([=o]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [=a]c; akin to D.
eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.]
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1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks
have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and
staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut,
called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a
scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now
recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly
fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe,
Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few
barely reaching the northern parts of South America and
Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand
proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually
hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary
rays, forming the silver grain.
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2. The strong wood or timber of the oak.
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Note: Among the true oaks in America are:
Barren oak, or
Black-jack, Quercus nigra.
Basket oak, Quercus Michauxii.
Black oak, Quercus tinctoria; -- called also yellow oak
or quercitron oak.
Bur oak (see under Bur.), Quercus macrocarpa; -- called
also over-cup or mossy-cup oak.
Chestnut oak, Quercus Prinus and Quercus densiflora.
Chinquapin oak (see under Chinquapin), {Quercus
prinoides}.
Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, of California; -- also
called enceno.
Live oak (see under Live), Quercus virens, the best of
all for shipbuilding; also, Quercus Chrysolepis, of
California.
Pin oak. Same as Swamp oak.
Post oak, Quercus obtusifolia.
Red oak, Quercus rubra.
Scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea.
Scrub oak, Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus undulata, etc.
Shingle oak, Quercus imbricaria.
Spanish oak, Quercus falcata.
Swamp Spanish oak, or
Pin oak, Quercus palustris.
Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor.
Water oak, Quercus aquatica.
Water white oak, Quercus lyrata.
Willow oak, Quercus Phellos.
[1913 Webster] Among the true oaks in Europe are:
Bitter oak, or
Turkey oak, Quercus Cerris (see Cerris).
Cork oak, Quercus Suber.
English white oak, Quercus Robur.
Evergreen oak,
Holly oak, or
Holm oak, Quercus Ilex.
Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera.
Nutgall oak, Quercus infectoria.
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Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus
Quercus, are:
African oak, a valuable timber tree ({Oldfieldia
Africana}).
Australian oak or She oak, any tree of the genus
Casuarina (see Casuarina).
Indian oak, the teak tree (see Teak).
Jerusalem oak. See under Jerusalem.
New Zealand oak, a sapindaceous tree ({Alectryon
excelsum}).
Poison oak, a shrub once not distinguished from poison ivy,
but now restricted to Rhus toxicodendron or {Rhus
diversiloba}.
Silky oak or Silk-bark oak, an Australian tree
(Grevillea robusta).
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Green oak, oak wood colored green by the growth of the
mycelium of certain fungi.
Oak apple, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the
leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly ({Cynips
confluens}). It is green and pulpy when young.
Oak beauty (Zool.), a British geometrid moth ({Biston
prodromaria}) whose larva feeds on the oak.
Oak gall, a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall.
Oak leather (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms
leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.
Oak pruner. (Zool.) See Pruner, the insect.
Oak spangle, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the
insect Diplolepis lenticularis.
Oak wart, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.
The Oaks, one of the three great annual English horse races
(the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was
instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called
from his estate.
To sport one's oak, to be "not at home to visitors,"
signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's
rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.]
[1913 Webster]Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr.
'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.]
The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the
glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
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Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,
sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
(a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower
(Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used
as food.
(b) One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two
species of Solanum (Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and
Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house
plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of
cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ({Chenopodium
Botrys}), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family
(Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree
(Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm
countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
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Jerusalem sage
(gcide) | Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr.
'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.]
The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the
glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
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Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,
sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
(a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower
(Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used
as food.
(b) One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two
species of Solanum (Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and
Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house
plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of
cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ({Chenopodium
Botrys}), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family
(Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree
(Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm
countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
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Jerusalem thorn
(gcide) | Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr.
'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.]
The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the
glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
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Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,
sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
(a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower
(Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used
as food.
(b) One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two
species of Solanum (Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and
Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house
plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of
cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ({Chenopodium
Botrys}), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family
(Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree
(Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm
countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
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Knight of St John of Jerusalem
(gcide) | Knight \Knight\, n. [OE. knight, cniht, knight, soldier, AS.
cniht, cneoht, a boy, youth, attendant, military follower;
akin to D. & G. knecht servant; perh. akin to E. kin.]
1. A young servant or follower; a military attendant. [Obs.]
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2.
(a) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback
and admitted to a certain military rank with special
ceremonies, including an oath to protect the
distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless
life.
(b) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of
baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him
to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John. [Eng.] Hence:
(c) A champion; a partisan; a lover. "Give this ring to my
true knight." Shak "In all your quarrels will I be
your knight." --Tennyson.
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Knights, by their oaths, should right poor
ladies' harms. --Shak.
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Note: Formerly, when a knight's name was not known, it was
customary to address him as Sir Knight. The rank of a
knight is not hereditary.
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3. A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a
horse's head.
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4. A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave
or jack. [Obs.]
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Carpet knight. See under Carpet.
Knight of industry. See Chevalier d'industrie, under
Chevalier.
Knight of Malta, Knight of Rhodes, {Knight of St. John of
Jerusalem}. See Hospitaler.
Knight of the post, one who gained his living by giving
false evidence on trials, or false bail; hence, a sharper
in general. --Nares. "A knight of the post, . . . quoth
he, for so I am termed; a fellow that will swear you
anything for twelve pence." --Nash.
Knight of the shire, in England, one of the representatives
of a county in Parliament, in distinction from the
representatives of cities and boroughs.
Knights commanders, Knights grand cross, different
classes of the Order of the Bath. See under Bath, and
Companion.
Knights of labor, a secret organization whose professed
purpose is to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen
as respects their relations to their employers. [U. S.]
Knights of Pythias, a secret order, founded in Washington,
D. C., in 1864, for social and charitable purposes.
Knights of the Round Table, knights belonging to an order
which, according to the legendary accounts, was instituted
by the mythical King Arthur. They derived their common
title from the table around which they sat on certain
solemn days. --Brande & C.
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New Jerusalem Church
(gcide) | New \New\ (n[=u]), a. [Compar. Newer (n[=u]"[~e]r); superl.
Newest.] [OE. OE. newe, AS. niwe, neowe; akin to D. nieuw,
OS. niwi, OHG. niuwi, G. neu, Icel. n[=y]r, Dan. & Sw. ny,
Goth. niujis, Lith. naujas, Russ. novuii, Ir. nua, nuadh,
Gael. nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez, L. novus, Gr. ne`os,
Skr. nava, and prob. to E. now. [root]263. See Now, and cf.
Announce, Innovate, Neophyte, Novel.]
1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time;
having originated or occured lately; having recently come
into existence, or into one's possession; not early or
long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; --
opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book;
a new fashion. "Your new wife." --Chaucer.
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2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately
manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new
planet; new scenes.
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3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now
commencing; different from what has been; as, a new year;
a new course or direction.
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4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of
original freshness; also, changed for the better;
renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel
made him a new man.
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Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. --Bk. of
Com. Prayer.
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Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost
new. --Bacon.
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5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient
descent; not previously known or famous. --Addison.
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6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
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New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. --Pope.
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7. Fresh from anything; newly come.
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New from her sickness to that northern air.
--Dryden.
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New birth. See under Birth.
New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the church holding
the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See
Swedenborgian.
New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the
power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy
motives.
New land, land cleared and cultivated for the first time.
New light. (Zool.) See Crappie.
New moon.
(a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first
appears after being invisible.
(b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day
of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the
Jews. --2 Kings iv. 23.
New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an old name for the formation
immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided
into the Permian and Trias. See Sandstone.
New style. See Style.
New testament. See under Testament.
New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called
because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern
Hemisphere until recent times.
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Syn: Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See Novel.
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The New Jerusalem
(gcide) | Jerusalem \Je*ru"sa*lem\ (j[-e]*r[udd]"s[.a]*l[e^]m), n. [Gr.
'Ieroysalh`m, fr. Heb. Y[e^]r[=u]sh[=a]laim.]
The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with the
glory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus
Christ.
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Jerusalem artichoke [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,
sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.)
(a) An American plant, a perennial species of sunflower
(Helianthus tuberosus), whose tubers are sometimes used
as food.
(b) One of the tubers themselves.
Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of two
species of Solanum (Solanum Pseudo-capsicum and
Solanum capsicastrum), cultivated as ornamental house
plants. They bear bright red berries of about the size of
cherries.
Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot ({Chenopodium
Botrys}), common about houses and along roadsides.
Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family
(Phlomis tuberosa).
Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree
(Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm
countries, and used for hedges.
The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.
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going to jerusalem
(wn) | going to Jerusalem
n 1: a child's game in which players march to music around a
group of chairs that contains one chair less than the
number of players; when the music abruptly stops the
players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a
chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march
resumes until only the winner is seated [syn: {musical
chairs}, going to Jerusalem] |
jerusalem
(wn) | Jerusalem
n 1: capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel
(although its status as capital is disputed); it was
captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy
city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital
of an ancient kingdom [syn: Jerusalem, {capital of
Israel}] |
jerusalem artichoke
(wn) | Jerusalem artichoke
n 1: edible tuber of the Jerusalem artichoke
2: tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely cultivated
for its large irregular edible tubers [syn: {Jerusalem
artichoke}, girasol, Jerusalem artichoke sunflower,
Helianthus tuberosus]
3: sunflower tuber eaten raw or boiled or sliced thin and fried
as Saratoga chips [syn: Jerusalem artichoke, sunchoke] |
jerusalem artichoke sunflower
(wn) | Jerusalem artichoke sunflower
n 1: tall perennial with hairy stems and leaves; widely
cultivated for its large irregular edible tubers [syn:
Jerusalem artichoke, girasol, {Jerusalem artichoke
sunflower}, Helianthus tuberosus] |
jerusalem cherry
(wn) | Jerusalem cherry
n 1: small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for
its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-
sized fruit [syn: Jerusalem cherry, winter cherry,
Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum] |
jerusalem cricket
(wn) | Jerusalem cricket
n 1: large wingless nocturnal grasshopper that burrows in loose
soil along the Pacific coast of the United States [syn:
sand cricket, Jerusalem cricket, {Stenopelmatus
fuscus}] |
jerusalem cross
(wn) | Jerusalem cross
n 1: a cross with equal arms, each terminating in a small
crossbar |
jerusalem oak
(wn) | Jerusalem oak
n 1: Eurasian aromatic oak-leaved goosefoot with many yellow-
green flowers; naturalized North America [syn: {Jerusalem
oak}, feather geranium, Mexican tea, {Chenopodium
botrys}, Atriplex mexicana] |
jerusalem sage
(wn) | Jerusalem sage
n 1: a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated
for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers [syn:
Jerusalem sage, Phlomis fruticosa] |
jerusalem thorn
(wn) | Jerusalem thorn
n 1: thorny Eurasian shrub with dry woody winged fruit [syn:
Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, {Paliurus spina-
christi}]
2: spiny tree having dark red edible fruits [syn: jujube,
jujube bush, Christ's-thorn, Jerusalem thorn, {Ziziphus
jujuba}]
3: large shrub or shrubby tree having sharp spines and pinnate
leaves with small deciduous leaflets and sweet-scented
racemose yellow-orange flowers; grown as ornamentals or
hedging or emergency food for livestock; tropical America but
naturalized in southern United States [syn: {Jerusalem
thorn}, horsebean, Parkinsonia aculeata]
4: East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow
flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu [syn:
catechu, Jerusalem thorn, Acacia catechu] |
jerusalem warriors
(wn) | Jerusalem Warriors
n 1: ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the
Turkish Hizballah; killed a United States Air Force
sergeant in 1991 |
temple of jerusalem
(wn) | Temple of Jerusalem
n 1: any of three successive temples in Jerusalem that served as
the primary center for Jewish worship; the first temple
contained the Ark of the Covenant and was built by Solomon
in the 10th century BC and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar in
586 BC; the second was built in 515 BC and the third was an
enlargement by Herod the Great in 20 BC that was destroyed
by the Romans during a Jewish revolt in AD 70; all that
remains is the Wailing Wall [syn: Temple of Jerusalem,
Temple of Solomon] |
winston-salem
(wn) | Winston-Salem
n 1: a city of north central North Carolina |
ASSISES OF JERUSALEM
(bouvier) | ASSISES OF JERUSALEM. The name of a code of feudal law, made at a general
assembly of lords, after the conquest of Jerusalem. It was compiled
principally from the laws and customs of France. They were reduced to form
about the year 1290, by Jean d'Iblin, comte de Japhe et d'Ascalon. Fournel
(Hist. des Avocats, vol. i. p. 49,) calls them the most precious monument
of our (French) ancient law. He defines the word assises to signify the
assemblies of the great, men of the realm. See also, 2 Profession d'Avocat,
par Dupin, 674 to 680; Steph. on Plead. App. p. xi.
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