Temple

1. A house of worship, especially:
2. A meeting house of the Oddfellows fraternity; its members.
3. Any place regarded as holding a religious presence.
4. Any place seen as an important centre for some activity.

   a temple of commerce, a temple of drinking and dining

5. Anything regarded as important or minutely cared for.

   My body is my temple.

6. A gesture wherein the forefingers are outstretched and touch pad to pad while the other fingers are clasped together.

verb

To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to; to temple a god

1. The slightly flatter region, on either side of the human head, behind of the eye and forehead, above the zygomatic arch, and forward of the ear.
2. Either of the sidepieces on a set of spectacles, extending backwards from the hinge toward the ears and, usually, turning down around them.

noun

A contrivance used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.