Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
(Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin);
traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer;
[syn: phylactery, tefillin]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tefillin
n 1: (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing
texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as
tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left
arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer [syn:
phylactery, tefillin]