Blemish: alternatives and connections

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

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To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

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To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

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The black grime or soot of coal.

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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.

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Same as Deflour.

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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

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To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…

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Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.

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The scaup duck.

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, w…

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To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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A stroke; a blow.

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To dash; to throw violently.

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A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, wi…

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A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.

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An evil spirit of the waters.

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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…

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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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A suffocating smoke.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

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A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

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The blue-winged snow goose.

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To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling man…

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A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

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A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation

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A pustule raised on the surface of the body in variolous and vaccine diseases.

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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…

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To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or porti…

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To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or porti…

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The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.

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The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.

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The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.

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The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement.

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A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

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A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

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To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or porti…

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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.

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A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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