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That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade…

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That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade…

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To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as,…

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To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as,…

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The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the…

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Act of accentuating; applications of accent.

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The act of accomplishing; entire performance; completion; fulfillment; as, the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc.

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The act of achieving or performing; an obtaining by exertion; successful performance; accomplishment; as, the achievement of his object.

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The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.

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Exposure to the free action of the air; airing; as, aeration of soil, of spawn, etc.

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The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war…

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The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.

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The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

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The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.

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Fertile. See Battel, a.

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The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased p…

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Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the beh…

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(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

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The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.

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The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of th…

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The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in prefe…

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A treatise on colors

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of Clot

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The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous co…

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The process of concreting; the process of uniting or of becoming united, as particles of matter into a mass; solidification.

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The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.

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A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

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The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.

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The act or process of conveying or transmitting.

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A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

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The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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of Curdle

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of Cure

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To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail;…

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See Defense.

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Alt. of Defence

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The act of diffusing, or the state of being diffused; a spreading; extension; dissemination; circulation; dispersion.

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The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.

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The act of dissolving, sundering, or separating into component parts; separation.

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The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.

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Distillation; the substance obtained by distillation.

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A driving; a violent movement.

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The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a car…

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Alt. of Effervescency

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of Emphasize

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The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed.

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The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest.

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The act of belching wind from the stomach; a belch.

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The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust.…

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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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A yew.

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The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

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The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…

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The act of extinguishing or making extinct; a putting an end to; the act of putting out or destroying light, fire, life, activity, influence, etc.

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The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a…

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The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels or ducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after a rupture of the vessels.

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To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get.

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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

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The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

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imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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The act of forbidding; prohibition; command or edict against a thing.

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The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.

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The lock of a gun, for producing the discharge. See Lock.

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of Harden

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State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.

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To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.

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The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.

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Intermediate action.

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The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.

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See 3d Leech.

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of Leach

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The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized.

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The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

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The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.

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The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration.

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The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.

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The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance o…

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To throw; to pitch.

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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of Play

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High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.

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The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.

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The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a sc…

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The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.

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The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.

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Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.

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To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.

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A leaping or jumping.

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of Save

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of Scatter

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The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

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The raising of silkworms.

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of Set

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To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…

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To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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The act of soaking, or the state of being soaked; also, the quantity that enters or issues by soaking.

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of Soak

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of Soften

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Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.

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of Solidify

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The sudden issuing of a body of troops, usually small, from a besieged place to attack or harass the besiegers; a sally.

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The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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The act of stimulating, or the state of being stimulated.

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The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied.

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The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succe…

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A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

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To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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Fencing; a sword fight.

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The doctrine or theory, attributed to Melanchthon, that in the regeneration of a human soul there is a cooperation, or joint agency, on the part both…

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Combined action

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of Take

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Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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The act of conveying over.

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The act of transfusing, or pouring, as liquor, out of one vessel into another.

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The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of com…

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The act or process of transpiring or excreting in the form of vapor; exhalation, as through the skin or other membranes of the body; as, pulmonary tr…

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Belief in the existence of vampires.

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Same as Vitrifaction.

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Ware; aware.

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Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.

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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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An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message con…

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Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Dead.

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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill.

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To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anythi…

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A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.

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of Proceed

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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Free of impediment; unimpeded.

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To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

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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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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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That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.

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That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.

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Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of t…

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Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of t…

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Turning a plan or policy into actual practice.

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Turning a plan or policy into actual practice.

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The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.

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An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…

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Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting; -- opposed to passive, that receives; as, certain acti…

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To complete, as time or distance.

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The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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Open the dictionary entry to review the exact meaning.

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To fill up; to make full or complete.

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To make the subject of a lawsuit; to contest in law; to prosecute or defend by pleadings, exhibition of evidence, and judicial debate in a court; as,…

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.

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Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

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Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness.

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