. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ht be the linencloth, aindon, cast about the young mansnaked The meil, generally of onepiece, was an upper tunic, larger than thekhethoneth, and worn over it. Travelers or-dinarily wore the two—a fact which givespeculiar significance to Christs prohibitionto his apostles when he sent them forth ontheir missionary The word meil oc-curs very frequently, and is rendered in al-most every conceivable mode by
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ht be the linencloth, aindon, cast about the young mansnaked The meil, generally of onepiece, was an upper tunic, larger than thekhethoneth, and worn over it. Travelers or-dinarily wore the two—a fact which givespeculiar significance to Christs prohibitionto his apostles when he sent them forth ontheir missionary The word meil oc-curs very frequently, and is rendered in al-most every conceivable mode by our Finally, there was an outer largewoolen garment, quadrangular, answering tothe present Arabic burnus. Several nameswere given to this, perhaps expressing somedifferences of size and quality. This outergarment was wrapped round the body, orbrought fiver the shoulder, with the ends 1 1 Sam. xix.,-4; I«a. XX., 2, 3 ; John xxi., 7; xxii., C: Isu. Iviii., T.—2 Jndfj. xiv., 12, 13; Markxiv.,51.—s Mutt, x., 10; Luke iii., II.—4 Exod. xxxix.,2-2; 1 Sam. ii., 19 ; xv.,27; xviii.,4: xxiv.,4,11; xxviii.,14; 1 Chron. xv., 2T ; Job i., 20; ii., An Egyptian Woman. hanging down, or passed over the head. Itwas this that in the corners or ends was tohave a fringe, and be bound with a rib-bon of blue. It was fastened round thewaist by a girdle, and one or more of itsfolds were used as convenient The dress of the women differed less fromthat of the men than it does in modern khethoneth, or inner tunic, was worn alikeby both sexes. There were, however, someouter garments peculiar to women. Theveil, or wimple, was a kind of shawl whichoften entirely enveloped the person. Theother titles employed, of which there are anumber, are not very well understood byscholars, and their significance is merely con-jectural. The dresses of women were, how-
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