To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.
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To aim; to direct.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
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A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…
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To shoot over or beyond.
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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…
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To appoint.
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The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
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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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A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…
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A counter or opposing purpose; hence, that which is inconsistent or contradictory.
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A book of offices in the Roman Catholic Church; a gradual.
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The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…
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The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…
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To appoint.
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Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for…
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A stain; a tache.
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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 seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.
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The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide t…
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Designated; appointed; chosen.
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To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative…
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…
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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…
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The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race…
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The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
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To stretch' to extend; to distend.
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To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
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A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…
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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
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To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…
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of Steer
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Taken.
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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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Away.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…
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That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…
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A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
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A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
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To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to…
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of Bear
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To ascertain or determine by mathematical processes, usually by the ordinary rules of arithmetic; to reckon up; to estimate; to compute.
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To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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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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Jet, the mineral.
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of Head
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Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.
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A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
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To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.
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Of or pertaining to an object.
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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…
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To appoint.
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To set forth.
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Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.
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That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…
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Taken.
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A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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