Word Meanings - PASSOVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb.

• Passionately
  In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.
• Blood money
  Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
• Passus
  of Passus
• Bloodwood
  A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
• Smithsonite
  Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.
• Egyptologer
  Alt. of Egyptologist
• Sparing
  of Spare
• Institutional
  Pertaining to, or treating of, institutions; as, institutional legends.
• Sparkish
  Like a spark; airy; gay.
• Marketableness
  Quality of being marketable.
• Sparse
  Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.
• Passacaglia
  Alt. of Passacaglio
• BLOODWITEBLOODWIT
  A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
• Passer-by
  One who goes by; a passer.
• SMITTLESMITTLISH
  Infectious; catching. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] H. Kingsley.
• Passionateness
  The state or quality of being passionate.
• Bloodroot
  A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstoc
• Passuses
  of Passus
• Bloodwort
  A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyein
• Smithy
  The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy.

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