To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
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Mixed; confounded.
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Mixed; confounded.
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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
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A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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of Beset
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See Chivy, v. t.
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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.
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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…
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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.
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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
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An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…
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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
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To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
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A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…
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To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.
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To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth.
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To bewilder or confuse someone
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Jet, the mineral.
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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
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One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
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To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
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To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to…
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To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…
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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
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To comb or card, as wool or flax.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
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To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
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Mixed; confounded.
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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
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A mound or small hill.
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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…
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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
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To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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An engine for casting stones.
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