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The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

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Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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The act of supposing; also, that which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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Relating to, or forming, the base.

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Relating to, or forming, the base.

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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in S…

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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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of Foot

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The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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Foundation.

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of Grind

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That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.

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