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belshazzar

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What does belshazzar mean?

proper noun

  1. Alternative form of Balthazar.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (dated) An early kind of overhead projector.

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Belshazzar trembled when he saw the fingers of a man's hand writing upon the wall, Mene tekel phares.
Richard de BuryThe Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de BuryTranslated by Ernest Chester ThomasProject Gutenberg ebook #626
To have been Belshazzar, King of Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously, therein certainly must have been some touch of mundane grandeur.
Herman MelvilleMoby Dick; Or, The WhaleProject Gutenberg ebook #2701
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The expression used of Belshazzar in Daniel v. 27, "Thou art weighed in the balance, and found wanting" (and the analogue in Job xxxi.
Alexander Francis ChamberlainThe Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-DayProject Gutenberg ebook #7966
This was a small human hand, in the act of lifting pieces of fuel into the fire, but for all that could be seen the hand, like that which troubled Belshazzar, was there alone.
Thomas HardyThe Return of the NativeProject Gutenberg ebook #122