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TORO EMPLOYEES Credit Union (finance) and angel (iou)


TORO EMPLOYEES Credit Union (finance)


TORO EMPLOYEES is a credit union with head office in BLOOMINGTON, MN





angel (iou)



angel noun & verb.
[Old English engel, corresp. to Old Frisian angel, engel, Old Saxon engil, Old High German angil, engil (Dutch, German Engel), Old Norse engill, Gothic aggilus (perh. immed. from Greek), one of the earliest Germanic adoptions from Latin; superseded in Middle English by forms from Old French angele from Christian Latin angelus from Greek aggelos messenger.]
A. noun.
Theology. A spiritual being more powerful and intelligent than a human being, esp. in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Other theologies, one acting as a messenger, agent, or attendant of God; in Christian theology also spec., a member of the ninth and lowest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, ranking directly below the archangels (usu. in pl.). OE.
on the side of the angels: see SIDE noun. recording angel: see RECORD verb.
Shakespeare Macbeth Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Pope Man seems to be placed as the middle Link between Angels and Brutes. Byron For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast. J. C. Oates The Indians had always feared the Spirit of Lake Noir, as an angel of mischief and death.
Theology. Any of the fallen spirits who rebelled against God; a devil. arch. exc. more fully fallen angel. OE.
Bible (AV): Matthew 25:41 Euerlasting fire, prepared for the deuill and his angels.
b. In full Hell's Angel. A member of a group of motorcyclists in California, orig. notorious for disturbances of civil order; a member of a similar group elsewhere. M20.
A guardian or attendant spirit (used both with and without implication of belief in such). Also fig., a person like such a spirit. ME.
familiar angel: see FAMILIAR adjective 1. GUARDIAN angel. ministering angel: see MINISTER verb.
Robert Burton Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending him in particular all his life long. Tennyson I to her became Her guardian and her angel. G. B. Shaw I am sure we all owe you the happiness of our lives. You are our good angel.
A person regarded as a messenger of God; a prophet, a preacher; a pastor or minister, esp. (in biblical translations, as at Revelation 2:1) in the early Church, and in some modern sects, as the Catholic Apostolic Church. ME.
A messenger. gen. poet. (now rare exc. as fig. use of sense 1). LME.
Jonson The dear good angel of the spring, The nightingale.
A conventional representation of a celestial angel, figured with wings and usu. a long robe. LME.
Joyce Mr Bloom walked..by saddened angels, crosses, broken pillars, family vaults.
Hist. In full angel-noble. A gold coin having as its device the archangel Michael piercing the dragon (cf. ANGELOT 1). LME.
An angelic person; a lovely or innocent being; an obliging or loving person; a person of exemplary conduct. L16.
Thackeray 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel. V. Woolf Prue, a perfect angel with the others. P. Barrington I'm no angel..but I'd never let anyone else swing for a crime they didn't commit.
A financial backer of an (esp. theatrical) enterprise. slang. L19.
An unexplained radar echo. M20.
Comb.: angel cake a very light and pale sponge cake; angel dust colloq. the drug phencyclidine; angelfish any of various fishes with winglike or elongated fins; spec. (a) = monkfish (a) s.v. MONK noun1; (b) a tropical marine fish of the family Pomacanthidae; (c) an aquarium fish of the S. American cichlid genus Pterophyllum, usu. silver and black; angel Food = angel cake above; angel-noble: see sense 7 above; angel's eye(s), angels' eyes dial. germander speedwell; angel-shark a shark of the family Squatinidae, with winglike pectoral fins; spec. = monkfish (a) s.v. MONK noun1; angels on horseback simmered oysters individually wrapped in bacon, served on toast; angel-skin [translating French peau d'ange] a fabric with a smooth waxy finish; angel-sleeve a long loose sleeve; angel's trumpet any of various South American shrubs or small trees of the genus Brugmansia (family Solanaceae), with large pendulous trumpet-shaped flowers.
b. verb trans. Infl. -ll-, *-l-. Back or finance (an enterprise, esp. a theatrical production). E20.
angelhood noun M19.
angelize verb trans. (arch.) = ANGELICIZE L16.
ange'lolatry noun the worship of angels M19.
ange'lology noun theological doctrine concerning angels M19.
ange'lophany noun a visible manifestation of angels M19.
angelship noun (a) (with possess. adjective, as
your angelship etc.) a mock title of respect for an angel; (b) the condition of being an angel: L16.