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Caravan :: Caravan (n.) A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile tribes, as in Asia or Africa..

Escalop :: Escalop (n.) The figure or shell of an escalop, considered as a sign that the bearer had been on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land..

Burdon :: Burdon (n.) A pilgrim's staff.

Ihram :: Ihram (n.) The peculiar dress worn by pilgrims to Mecca.

Pilgrimage :: Pilgrimage (n.) The journey of a pilgrim; a long journey; especially, a journey to a shrine or other sacred place. Fig., the journey of human life..

Guidon :: Guidon (v. t.) One of a community established at Rome, by Charlemagne, to guide pilgrims to the Holy Land..

Scallop :: Scallop (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated in a characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some the species is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacobaeus) occurs on the coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrims as a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell. See Pecten, 2..

Bourdon :: Bourdon (n.) A pilgrim's staff.

Pilgrim :: Pilgrim (n.) A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger.

Canterbury :: Canterbury (n.) A city in England, giving its name various articles. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury (primate of all England), and contains the shrine of Thomas a Becket, to which pilgrimages were formerly made..

Liken :: Liken (a.) To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage..

Templar :: Templar (n.) One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple..

Xenodochium :: Xenodochium (n.) In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.].

Palster :: Palster (n.) A pilgrim's staff.

Pilgrimage :: Pilgrimage (n.) A tedious and wearisome time.

Pilgrimize :: Pilgrimize (v. i.) To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage.

Pilgrim :: Pilgrim (v. i.) To journey; to wander; to ramble.

"""fern " :: Fern (a.) Ancient; old. [Obs.] Pilgrimages to . . . ferne halwes. [saints]..

Hospitaler :: Hospitaler (n.) One of an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims, A. D. 1042. They were called Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and after the removal of the order to Malta, Knights of Malta..

Pilgrim :: Pilgrim (n.) One who travels far, or in strange lands, to visit some holy place or shrine as a devotee; as, a pilgrim to Loretto; Canterbury pilgrims. See Palmer..

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