(a) A movable dwelling place, tent, temporary hut; a pavilion; valei of tabernacles, Biblical Succoth, a site of uncertain location in the central Transjordan region; (b) feste of (solempnite of the) tabernacles, Sukkoth, the Jewish holiday during which tents are erected to commemorate the Biblical wanderings in the desert; (c) ?a booth, stall;—used as a term of association for bakers.

(a) The portable sanctuary of the Hebrews, used up to the time of the building of Solomon's Temple; one of the two sections into which this sanctuary was partitioned; also, the Temple of Solomon; also, the administrative support for the tabernacle [last quot.]; ~ of the bodi; ~ of witnesse (witnessinge, testimonie); (b) a portable shrine used in pagan worship.

(a) A dwelling place, habitation; a dwelling, an abode; also fig.; (b) a spiritual dwelling place, esp. the dwelling place of God; also, a heavenly mansion; also as epithet; (c) the body as the dwelling place of the spirit; also, the body of Christ or Mary as the dwelling place of God; also as epithet.

(a) An ornate canopied tomb, a canopied shrine; (b) a small canopied or roofed structure either freestanding within another structure or projecting from a wall; also, fig. a stage [2nd quot.]; (c) a canopied dais; (d) a canopied niche or recess in a wall, pillar, etc. designed to contain an image; (e) an ornamental representation of a canopied niche painted or embroidered on fabric; (f) an ornamental canopy; (g) fig. a shrine.

A cupola, turret.

Eccl. A receptacle used to contain the pyx; also, a reliquary [last quot.].

A large, flat board.