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or f. (,  absorbed or dropped =) tale, story, lesson, esp. Agadah, that class of Rabb. literature which explains the Bible homiletically, opp. to Halakhah or legal interpretation. M. Kat. 23$a$ a legal tradition and an Agadah (homily). Y. Yeb. XII, 13$a$. Y. B. Bath. VI, 15$c$ it is a traditional Agadah.—Y. Git. IV, 45$c$ who among nsus [sic] can enter into what thy grandfather said?— a lecturer on Agadah. Gen. R. s. 94; a. fr.— the Agadah on Psalms. Ib. s. 33.—Pl. , . Lev. R. s. 22, beg.; a, fr.—Cmp. .

pl. Tosef. Makhsh. III, 8 ed. Zuck., v..

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(, popular corrupt., cmp. ) m. (ecdicus=cognitor sive defensor civitatis, esp. in Asia Minor) state's agent, syndic. Gen. R. s. 12 (ed. ;, corr. acc.) when an ecdicnsecdicus [sic] is in the country, he holds the authority over the public road (curator viæ, v. ). Yalk. Ps. 794 (a. Ar.), corr. acc.—Pl. , . Cant. R. to VII, 9 (ed. ).

m. (v. a., P. Sm. 23) worm-wood (Rashi: horehound). Ab. Zar. 29$a$ Ar. a. ed. (Ms. M., with ), in a prescription against asthma. Targ. Y. I. Deut. XXIX, 17 (Var. ); ed. Vienna pl. .

f. ch. (=h. ) 1) Agadah, homiletic literature. B. Kam. 60$b$ opp. . Sotah 49$a$ (abbr. ) the kaddish (prayer) after lectures. Y. Sabb. XVI, 15$c$—2) the Haggadah, i. e. the recitations for the Passover night. Ps. 115$b$ Haggadah and Hallel. Ib. 116$b$ who recited the Hag. in the house of R. Joseph (who was blind)?

m. ( to sting, v., √=, v. ) thorn, thorn-bush. Y. Shebi. VII, 37$b$ top.—Pl. . Y. Kil. V, 30$a$ bot.; v..

adv. inside, amid, v. . Hull, 130$ab$. Cmp. .

m. (, v, =h. q. v.) cleft, fissure. cataract, water-falls (issuing from a fissure). Lam. R. to I, 17 (play on ḥogeg ibid. Ps. XLII, 5) Ar. like the cataract that rests neither &c. [Ed. ].

m. band. Y. Sabb. VI, 8$a$ bot.; Y. Yeb. XII, 12$d$ top a band (of bast) with which mala punica (pomegranates) are tied together.—Pl. , const. . Peah VI, 10 stalks of garlic plant used for tying bunches; [oth. opin. bunches of garlic on one stalk], opp. to tied bunches. [Tosef. ib. III, 8 ed. Zuck., piles of garlic, v. .] [Num. R. s. 4 beg. , v. .]

f. (b. h., v. foreg.) 1) bundle, bunch. B. Mets. I, 8. Succ. 33$b$ as a bunch of herbs is tied; a. fr.—2) band, union; faction. Lev. R. s. 30; Gen. R. s. 88 one brotherhood.—Pl. . Peah VI, 10; v. foreg. Makhsh. VI, 2 (herb) bunches which have been lying in the market houses; v. Tosef. ib. III, 8.—Yeb. 13$b$ (ref. to Deut. XIV, 1)  do not form yourselves into religious factions. Ber. 4$a$ in companies (amusing themselves).—3)  pr. n. of a family, Beth-Aguddah. Mass. Sof'rim IV, 1  the scribes of the family Beth-Ag.

m. (=) thumb. Yoma II, 1. Cant. R. to III, 6.

m. (b. h.) nut. Git. 64$b$ (as signs of mental responsibility) if you throw a nut to it, and the child picks it npup [sic] (at the same time throwing a pebble away); a. e.—Pl. , const. . Orl. III, 8 when the nuts are burst open. Ib. 7 crack-nuts (eatable); a. fr. [Tosef. Sabb. XIV (XV), 1 ed. Zuck., read, v. .] [For etymol. cmp. .]

ch. same; also nut-tree. Keth. 77$b$ scrapings of the bark of a nut-tree; v. .—Cmp. ,

f. (v. ) nut-tree. Cant. R. to VI, 11.

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m. Quæstor. Gen. R. s. 12, v. a., end.

(, fr. ) ''up! come on!'' Gen. R. s. 78.

m. assembly, esp. public games. Y'lamd. Emor (quot. in Ar, missing in Tanh.).

Tanḥ. Mishp. 1, read.

f. Augusta, title of a female member of the imperial family (of Rome), in gen. princess &c. Esth. R. to I, 9. [Tanʿh. Vaëra 8,, read ]

m. (Augustanus, Augustianus) a servant in a colonia Augustana, (perhaps identical with Curialis or Decurio; cmp. Gibbon, ed. Milm. II, 142sq., Amer. ed.). Snh. 26$a$ Ms. M. (Ms. c. a. F.  ed., , corr. ) he may say (as an excuse for tilling in the Sabbath year), I am merely an imperial servant in the estate.

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m. Augustus, title of the Roman emperor, in gen. ruler, sovereign. Y. Ber. IX, 12$d$ bot. as one uses indiscriminately