That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad"
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Proof; evidence.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of infe…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.To engage in combat for; to strive for.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative b…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.persons who make or amend or repeal laws
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is…
Used in the same subject area: Politics and government, Parliament and legislatures.a military corps that enforces discipline and guards prisoners
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A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.Bade.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to br…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.A kind of occult theosophy or traditional interpretation of the Scriptures among Jewish rabbis and certain mediaeval Christians, which…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.The art or practice of using the manual alphabet or of communicating thoughts by sings made by the hands and fingers; a substitute for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.Wanting the sense of hearing, either wholly or in part; unable to perceive sounds; hard of hearing; as, a deaf man.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.A person who is deaf and dumb; one who, through deprivation or defect of hearing, has either failed the acquire the power of speech, o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.The condition of being a deaf-mute.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.Deaf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.Deaf; stupid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.Having the power of preventing entrance; debarring from participation or enjoyment; possessed and enjoyed to the exclusion of others;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.To make merry or jolly; to enliven; to animate; to gladden greatly; to cheer; as, good news exhilarates the mind; wine exhilarates a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pretend, certain, qualities, mind, acted.
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