To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
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To flatter in a servile way.
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A toady.
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A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
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The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degre…
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The same as Kotow.
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Struck.
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A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
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A small wheel or caster.
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To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.
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A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
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A servile or hypocritical flatterer.
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The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
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The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
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One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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