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‖n. [ Heb. ] Half a shekel. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or , n. [ Heb. khanukkāh. ] The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabaeus, his brothers, and the whole congregation of Israel, in 165 b. c., to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The feast, which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev, corresponding to December), and is celebrated everywhere, chiefly as a festival of lights, by the Jews. [ Also spelled Chanuka. ]
Syn. -- Chanukah, Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast of the Dedication. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Per. or Ar. huqqa a round box or casket, a bottle through which the fumes pass when smoking tobacco. ] A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe. The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖n. A kind of notary public, or attorney, in the Levant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Native name, from its cry. ] (Zool.) A long-nosed monkey (Nasalis larvatus, formerly Semnopithecus nasalis), native of Borneo. The general color of the body is bright chestnut, with the under parts, shoulders, and sides of the head, golden yellow, and the top of the head and upper part of the back brown. Called also proboscis monkey. It is now an endangered species. [ Written also kaha. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]