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Hind :: Hind (a.) In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Marshal :: Marshal (n.) One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession, and the like..

Splendor :: Splendor (n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like..

Exequy :: Exequy (n.) A funeral rite (usually in the plural); the ceremonies of burial; obsequies; funeral procession.

Way :: Way (n.) A moving; passage; procession; journey.

Foot :: Foot (n.) The lowest part or base; the ground part; the bottom, as of a mountain or column; also, the last of a row or series; the end or extremity, esp. if associated with inferiority; as, the foot of a hill; the foot of the procession; the foot of a class; the foot of the bed..

Procession :: Procession (n.) An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons, either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir around the church, within or without..

Cope :: Cope (n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions..

Cross-week :: Cross-week (n.) Rogation week, when the cross was borne in processions..

Manducus :: Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage..

By :: By (adv.) Passing near; going past; past; beyond; as, the procession has gone by; a bird flew by..

Riding :: Riding (n.) A festival procession.

Processioner :: Processioner (n.) An officer appointed to procession lands.

Stationed :: Station (n.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station o

Heraldry :: Heraldry (n.) The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies..

Processionalist :: Processionalist (n.) One who goes or marches in a procession.

Procession :: Procession (v. i.) To honor with a procession.

Procession :: Procession (n.) An old term for litanies which were said in procession and not kneeling.

Processioning :: Processioning (n.) A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession.

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