of the Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and where no person entered, except the high priest, once a year.

Holy Ghost, or Holy Spirit, the 

Holy war, a war undertaken to rescue the holy land, the ancient Judea, from the infidels; a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians against the Saracens in the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries; a war carried on in a most unholy manner. brothers, BROTHER, n. plus. brothers or brethren. L. frater.A human male born of the same father and mother. A male by one of the parents only is called a half-brother, or brother of the half-blood. Anyone closely united; an associate; as a band of brothers.One that resembles another in manners.                    He that is slothful in his work is a brother to him that is a great waster. Proverbs 18.            In scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman by blood more remote that a son of the same parents; as in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. Persons of the same profession call each other brother, as judges, clergymen, professors of religion, members of societies united in a common cause, monks and the like.  Kings give to each other the title of brother.address their congregations by the title of brethren. In a more general sense, brother or brethren is used for man in general; all men being children of the same primitive ancestors and forming one race of beings.Brother-german is a brother by the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, or by the mother only.