To change or modify in any way for the better
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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
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To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
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To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
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To lighten or lessen the force or weight of.
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To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisf…
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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
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To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
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A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.
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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…
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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…
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See Distill.
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To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle.
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A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.
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Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
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To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…
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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…
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To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, general…
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To raise or lift up; to exalt.
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To make rich with any kind of wealth; to render opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge.
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Fixed; solidified.
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To bear fruit.
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To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…
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To pine; to lament; to long.
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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
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To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…
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Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
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Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…
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Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
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To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metal…
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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
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To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…
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To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to am…
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Reproduced.
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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
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To return.
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To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
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To restore vitality to; to bring back to life.
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To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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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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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…
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To look at again for the detection of errors; to reexamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a tr…
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Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
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Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory.
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Supplying amendment; corrective; emendatory.
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An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
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An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
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Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
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Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.
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The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.
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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
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To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…
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Remedial.
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That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for t…
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To return.
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Exasperated; imbittered.
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Exasperated; imbittered.
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