noun
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The desert in which Christ fasted for 40 days according to the Bible.
definition
A grace period of 40 days during which a widow has the right to remain in her dead husband's home, regardless of the inheritance.
Examples of quarantine in a Sentence
The Flores Island quarantine station is 12 m.
They were at a closer quarantine kennel for about a month.
After six months' stay in Algiers he once again, on the 21st of June 1809, set sail for Marseilles, where he had to undergo a monotonous and inhospitable quarantine in the lazaretto, before his difficulties were over.
If you are planning on traveling with your pet to a foreign land, give yourself plenty of time to gather that nation's quarantine regulations and make all the necessary preparations for your pet to enter the region.
Suez is a quarantine station for pilgrims from Mecca; otherwise its importance is due almost entirely to the ships using the canal.
I want my spam quarantine bin sent to a role account, rather than be held in a file local to the mail server.
Steve worked with the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service to promote awareness of the country's strict quarantine requirements.
The purpose of this quarantine period is to determine if pets may be carrying dangerous parasites and/or zoonotic diseases which could be transmitted to the indigenous population, both humans and animals.
In all 87,659 persons are said to have died out of a population of nearly 250,000.2 This great epidemic caused a panic in England which led to the introduction (under Mead's advice) of quarantine regulations, never previously enforced, and also led to the publication of many pamphlets, &c., beside Mead's well-known Discourse on Pestilential Contagion (London, 1720).
The health of animals branch, through which are administered the laws relating to the contagious diseases of animals, and the control of quarantine and inspection stations for imported animals, undertakes also valuable experiments on the diseases of farm live-stock, including glanders in horses, tuberculosis in cattle, &c. The policy of slaughtering horses reacting to the mallein test has been successfully initiated by Canada, the returns for 1908 from all parts of the country indicating a considerable decrease from the previous year in the number of horses destroyed and the amount of compensation paid.
In case you are wondering, yes, you will be allowed to visit your pet during its quarantine period.
If you may have gotten ill during movies like The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield or Quarantine then you may get the same type of feeling during an IMAX movie.
Among the more important legislative changes with which he was principally connected were a reform of the Navigation Acts, admitting other nations to a full equality and reciprocity of shipping duties; the repeal of the labour laws; the introduction of a new sinking fund; the reduction of the duties on manufactures and on the importation of foreign goods, and the repeal of the quarantine duties.
The United States government has at Port Townsend a customshouse, a revenue cutter service, a marine hospital, a quarantine station and an immigration bureau.
Two weeks into the quarantine a red lory from this group died without symptoms.
We are the traffic cop that enforces quarantine, " says Gillis.
Where the risk is assessed as not high, quarantine restriction will apply for 21 days with regular veterinary visits undertaken.
Check ahead about quarantine rules and requirements, if you're traveling to Hawaii or a foreign country.
In the meantime other ships had arrived from Syria, which were put in quarantine.
You can also create your own spam blacklists, add known safe senders to custom whitelists and release messages mistakenly held in quarantine.
Well cholera is extremely contagious, hence the quarantine.
Quarantine measures were regarded as detrimental to the interests of international commerce.
First having to undergo six months quarantine at Paradise Wildlife Park.
Virginia swiftly imposes a quarantine, trapping Becky and Justin and Randolph Brooks in Elizabeth.
Control over the lighthouse funds of the lighthouse authorities of the United Kingdom, the registry of British ships, wreck, salvage and quarantine are all among the matters dealt with by this department, which also has charge of the standards department for weights and measures.
Pet quarantine rules applying to dogs are largely designed to prevent the spread of the deadly rabies virus, especially into regions where the virus has not yet infiltrated the population.
Every point of entry has specific rules, regulations, and charges regarding pet quarantine, and those rules change quite frequently.
Pet quarantine facilities are definitely not comparable to the type of doggie day care centers you might be expecting.
Quarantine stations are usually fairly sparse, consisting of concrete stalls with floor drains, and chain link gates.
You can avoid this charge if you or someone at your pet's destination is able to transport him directly from the airport to the quarantine station.
You will need to pay the boarding charges for your pet's stay in quarantine and any additional veterinary charges that might be incurred.
Pet quarantine is not an easy process for you or your dog, but it is a necessary part of most international travel.
Quarantine treatment is typically required along with hospitalization.
If the individual was bitten by a domestic animal and the animal was captured, the animal will be placed under observation in quarantine for ten days.
This policy benefit covers the cost of placing an animal in quarantine before it will be allowed to enter a foreign country.
The series of bays to the N.W., approached between the points of Tigne and St Elmo, is known as the Marsamuscetto (or Quarantine) Harbour.
The principalities were to enjoy commercial freedom, and the right of establishing a quarantine cordon along the Danube or elsewhere.
Quarantine gives Rimmer a further taste of the power he's always craved, paralleling the lunacy that creates with actual madness.
Where contact has occurred animals should enter quarantine on return to the farm.
The policy of compulsory quarantine ended ten years ago.
May, despite the fact that much of rural Britain is in strict quarantine.
As the city has always been notoriously unhealthful, the United States, on undertaking the construction of the Panama Canal, became interested in preventing its becoming a centre of infection for the Canal Zone, and by the treaty of November 1903 secured complete jurisdiction in the city and harbour over all matters relating to sanitation and quarantine, and engaged to construct a system of waterworks and sewers in the municipality, which had been practically completed in 1907.
International procedure is supposed to be regulated by the Venice convention of 1897 (see Quarantine), but that instrument contains an optional clause, which allows countries to do as they please with their own frontiers.
Network administrators can customize how emails are handled with choices to accept, reject or quarantine emails with known viruses.
You will also notice the " Empty your quarantine folder " link under the list of emails.
If you plan to travel internationally with your pet, you're going to need the facts about pet quarantine.
Pet quarantine is the term used for isolating companion animals for a defined period of time when they enter a new country during travel.
And sure enough, the Authorities locate ET and quarantine the children's house.
The mysterious group is placed into quarantine, and the Seattle office of the Homeland Security Department is put in charge of monitoring and investigating them.
As the 4400 are released from quarantine and allowed to return (or try to return) to their pre-abduction lives, it becomes clear that they have been changed.