Quarantine: alternatives and connections

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the…

The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of pe…

A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…

Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interes…

A fast of forty days on bread and water.

A festival celebrated with merriment and revelry in Roman Gatholic countries during the week before Lent, esp. at Rome and Naples, dur…

A bachelor of arts in Oxford, formerly appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.

That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delive…

A wooden rattle sometimes used as a substitute for a bell, in the Roman Catholic church, during the latter part of Holy Week, or the l…

The second month in the year, said to have been introduced into the Roman calendar by Numa. In common years this month contains twenty…

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression i…

One of forty equal parts into which one whole is divided; the quotient of a unit divided by forty; one next in order after the thirty-…

The space of fourteen days; two weeks.

The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid a…

Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

A small stuffed puppet to be pelted in Lent; hence, a simple fellow.

The fourth Sunday of Lent; -- so named from the Latin word Laetare (rejoice), the first word in the antiphone of the introit sung that…

Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty-ni…