Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, between the hand and the arm; the carpus. See Carpus.
2. (n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.
Strong's Hebrew
8285. sherah -- a bracelet... bracelet. From sharar in its original sense of pressing; a
wrist-band (as compact
or clasping) -- bracelet. see HEBREW sharar. 8284, 8285. sherah. 8286 .
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Answers to Prayer
... Through this misfortune her afflictions grew worse. In January, 1884, she fell
and broke one bone and dislocated another in the left wrist. ...
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A New Pretender
... He laid his hand on her wrist. ... There was a dead pause in which his fingers still
held her wrist and his deep eyes were fixed on her face. ...
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Talmage -- a Bloody Monster
... I think, if some of you should try to break away, you would find a chain on the
right wrist, and one on the left; one on the right foot, and another on the left ...
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Jesus is Arrested.
... They tied his hands as tightly as possible with hard new cords, fastening the
right-hand wrist under the left elbow, and the left-hand wrist under the right ...
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Devout Customs and Usages
... It should fall somewhat below the knees. The sleeves are flowing and of
considerable width at the wrist.". [Illustration: The surplice]. ...
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Those Days it was Near Twelve O'Clock by the Great Dial of History ...
... Both followed eagerly, he leading, and, as it stopped, he quickly covered the bit
of metal with his hand. "Let me see!" said she, her hand upon his wrist. ...
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The Dream of St. Ursula
... her head like a double crown. The white nightgown hides the arm, raised
on the pillow, down to the wrist. At the door of the room ...
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The Arrest of the Body
... which the Hand is now extended, and the extraordinary capacity for varied motion
afforded by the three-fold system of jointing at shoulder, elbow, and wrist. ...
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It was a Clear Morning and the Tenth Day Before the Kalends of ...
... rest. With a hand quick as the paw of a leopard, Vergilius whirled it away
and caught the wrist of the Jew and flung him down. While ...
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It is not Enough that God Know us to be Chaste: we must Seem So ...
... Otherwise, I know not whether the wrist that has been wont to be surrounded with
the palmleaf-like bracelet will endure till it grow into the numb hardness of ...
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Thesaurus
Wrist (3 Occurrences)... See Carpus. 2. (n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called
wrist pin. Multi-Version Concordance
Wrist (3 Occurrences).
.../w/wrist.htm - 7kPalm (49 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) The inner and somewhat concave part of
the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist. ...
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Bracelet (5 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times,
an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls. ...
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Carpus (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between ... The name,
common enough in Paul's day, signifies "fruit" (Young) or "wrist" (Davis). ...
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Cubit (51 Occurrences)
... uncertainty whether it included the entire length from the elbow to the tip of the
longest finger, or only from the elbow to the root of the hand at the wrist. ...
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Wrists (5 Occurrences)
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Hand (14438 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys,
and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus. ...
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Knee (12 Occurrences)
... the thigh and leg. 3. (n.) In the horse and allied animals, the carpal
joint, corresponding to the wrist in man. 4. (n.) A piece ...
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Unwashen (3 Occurrences)
... not physically), and so before meals must be cleansed (religiously) by washing,
which consisted in two affusions and must extend up to the wrist, else the hand ...
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Wrinkles (1 Occurrence)
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Resources
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