. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . The Gecko. ing things which were prohibited as etymology of the name, signifying thegroaner or sigher, points to some creaturewhich utters a mournful cry. There is a liz-. Sheep-fold. gardens of Damascus. They are built of^reat pieces of earth, made in the fashion ofbrick and hardened in the sun. In their di-mensions they are each two yards long, andsomewhat more than one broad, and half a 1 P^,12; Ecc
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . The Gecko. ing things which were prohibited as etymology of the name, signifying thegroaner or sigher, points to some creaturewhich utters a mournful cry. There is a liz-. Sheep-fold. gardens of Damascus. They are built of^reat pieces of earth, made in the fashion ofbrick and hardened in the sun. In their di-mensions they are each two yards long, andsomewhat more than one broad, and half a 1 P^,12; Eccles. 8; Nah. Hi., 17; Matt, xxi.,33; Markxli.,1. aid known as the gecko wall-lizard, or fan-loot, which is exceedingly plentiful in theEast, inhabiting the interior of houses, whoreit can find the Hies and other insects onwhich it lives. As it creeps along the wallby means of its peculiarly-formed, adhesivefeet, and frequently utters a mournful sound FESTIVALS 347 FETICHISM like the word geek-o, scholars have con-jectured that this may be the animal in-tended. [Lev. xi., 30.] Festivals or Feasts, a term denoting cer-tain periodically recurring days and seasonsset aside by a community for rest from the or-dinary labor of life, and more or less hallow-ed by religious solemnities. Passing by theheathen festivals, only a cursory glance can behere ta
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