| peace offering | |
| —n | |
| 1. | something given to an adversary in the hope of procuring or maintaining peace |
| 2. | Judaism a sacrificial meal shared between the offerer and Jehovah to intensify the union between them |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |