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2781 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Marriage-feasts.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… or milk skins hung up on pegs on the wall. (Comp. Psalm 119:83 .) To some such marriage-feast Jesus and his five disciples were invited at Cana of Galilee.” Geikie’s …
2783 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Milk.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
Milk — (1.) Hebrew halabh, “new milk”, milk in its fresh state ( Judges 4:19 ). It is frequently mentioned in connection with honey ( Exodus 3:8; Exodus 13:5; Joshua 5:6; Isaiah …
2784 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Milk.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… , “curdled milk,” such as that which Abraham set before the angels ( Genesis 18:8 ), and which Jael gave to Sisera ( Judges 5:25 ). In this state milk was used by travellers …
2785 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Milk.4 (Matthew G. Easton)
This Hebrew word is also sometimes used for milk in general ( Deuteronomy 32:14; Job 20:17 ).
2786 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Sisera.2 (Matthew G. Easton)
… curdled milk) “in a lordly dish.” Having drunk the refreshing beverage, he lay down, and soon sank into the sleep of the weary. While he lay asleep Jael crept stealthily …
2787 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Sisera.3 (Matthew G. Easton)
… him milk; She brought him cream in a lordly dish. She stretched forth her hand to the nail, Her right hand to the workman’s hammer, And she smote Sisera; she crushed …
2788 Easton's Bible Dictionary, p. Wine.16 (Matthew G. Easton)
… with milk and honey” (debash), Exodus 3:8, Exodus 3:17; Exodus 13:5; Exodus 33:3; Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 13:27. (See HONEY .)
2789 Etymology dictionary, p. ablactation (n.).2
… lactis ) "milk" (from PIE root *g(a)lag- "milk").
2790 Etymology dictionary, p. acidophilus (adj.).2
… of milk fermented by acidophilic bacteria, from acidophil (1900), indicating "easily stained by acid dyes," a hybrid word, from Latin acidus "acidic, sour, tart …
2791 Etymology dictionary, p. albacore (n.).2
name given to a large type of tuna caught in the Tropics, 1570s, from Portuguese albacora, from Arabic al bakara "milk cow;" the fish so called for its size.
2792 Etymology dictionary, p. balderdash (n.).2
… liquors" (milk and beer, beer and wine, etc.); by 1670s as "senseless jumble of words." Perhaps from dash and the first element perhaps cognate with Danish balder …
2793 Etymology dictionary, p. batter (n.1).2
in cookery, "a mixture of ingredients (flour, eggs, milk) beaten together," late 14c., from Old French batteure "a beating," from Latin battuere "to beat, knock" (see batter (v.)).
2794 Etymology dictionary, p. beestings (n.).2
"colostrum," late Old English bysting, from beost "first milk of a cow after calving," a general West Germanic word (cognates: Old High German biost, German Biest, Middle Dutch and Dutch biest, North Frisian bjast ) of unknown origin.
2795 Etymology dictionary, p. bonnyclabber (n.).2
… soured milk," 1620s (in shortened form clabber ), from Modern Irish bainne "milk" (from Middle Irish banne "drop," also, rarely, "milk"; cognate with Sanskrit bindu- "drop …
2796 Etymology dictionary, p. booze (n.).3
… wine, milk, sugar and rose-water in the summer time." In New Zealand from c. World War II, a drinking binge was a boozeroo .
2797 Etymology dictionary, p. brose (n.).2
… boiling milk, liquid in which meat has been broiled, seasoning, etc., poured over oatmeal or barley meal, 1650s, Scottish, earlier browes, from Old French broez …
2798 Etymology dictionary, p. butter (n.).2
… of milk," obtained from cream by churning, general West Germanic (compare Old Frisian, Old High German butera, German Butter, Dutch boter ), an early loan-word from …
2799 Etymology dictionary, p. butterfly (n.).2
… or milk that is left uncovered. Or, less creatively, simply because the pale yellow color of many species' wings suggests the color of butter. Another theory …
2800 Etymology dictionary, p. buttermilk (n.).2
liquid that remains after the butter has been churned out of milk, c. 1500, from butter (n.) + milk (n.). Compare German Buttermilch, Dutch botermelk. Middle French had laict beurré and babeurre.