widow cruse

  • 1Cruse — may refer to: Cruse (name), surname (includes a list of people with this name) Cruse Bereavement Care, UK charity Cruse De Ocoa, small town in the Dominican Republic Cruse Memorial Heliport, private heliport in Douglas County, Oregon, United… …

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  • 2widow's cruse — n. an apparently inexhaustible supply: 2 Kings 4:1 7 …

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  • 3widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10 16 and II Kings 4:1 7. * * * widow s cruse noun A source of supply that never fails (from the story in the Bible, 1 Kings 17.10–16) • • • Main… …

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  • 4widow's cruse — noun Etymology: from the widow s cruse of oil that miraculously supplies Elijah during a famine (I Kings 17:8 16) Date: 1729 an inexhaustible supply …

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  • 5widow — n. & v. n. 1 a woman who has lost her husband by death and has not married again. 2 a woman whose husband is often away on a specified activity (golf widow). 3 extra cards dealt separately and taken by the highest bidder. 4 Printing the short… …

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  • 6widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10 16 and II Kings 4:1 7. * * * …

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  • 7widow's cruse — noun An inexhaustible supply, oftentimes of something that appears meager. Thus profits, as a source of capital increment for entrepreneurs, are a widows cruse which remains undepleted however much of them may be devoted to riotous living …

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  • 8widow's cruse — noun an apparently small supply that proves inexhaustible. Origin with biblical allusion to 1 Kings 17:10–16 …

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  • 91 Kings 17 — 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. 2 And the word of the LORD came unto… …

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