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  • 11laying-room — laying room …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 12laying aside — index release Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 13laying out — index disbursement (act of disbursing) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 14laying-on of hands — 1. The touch of a bishop or presbyters in ordination 2. In spiritual healing, the action of placing hands on, over or near an ill person • • • Main Entry: ↑hand …

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  • 15Laying on of hands — A 1946 laying on of hands at the Pentecostal Church of God in Lejunior, Kentucky. The laying on of hands is a religious ritual that accompanies certain religious practices, which are found throughout the world in varying forms. In Christian… …

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  • 16Laying worker bee — A laying worker bee is a worker bee that lays unfertilized eggs usually in the absence of a queen bee. Only drones develop from the eggs of laying worker bees (with some exceptions, see thelytoky). A beehive cannot survive with only a laying… …

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  • 17laying on of hands —    Throughout church history the laying on of hands the purposeful and symbolic touching of one Christian by another has been used for a variety of purposes. It can be a formal public acknowledgment that the church is commissioning a member for… …

    Encyclopedia of Protestantism

  • 18Laying Down The Law — Artwork title=Trial By Jury artist=Sir Edwin Landseer year=1840 type=Oil on canvas height=72 width=95 Trial By Jury , or Laying Down The Law as it is commonly known, is an oil on canvas painting from 1840 by the English painter Sir Edwin Landseer …

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  • 19laying house — ▪ farm building       in animal husbandry, a building or enclosure for maintaining laying flocks of domestic fowl, usually chickens, containing nests, lighting, roosting space, waterers, and feed troughs. Feeders and waterers may be automatic. In …

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  • 20laying ghosts —    Many traditions about haunt ings imply that there is nothing the living can do to lay the ghost to rest. Others, however, describe ghosts which depart once whatever is troubling them has been dealt with; it may be that their bones need burial …

    A Dictionary of English folklore