To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.
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To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
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To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
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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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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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A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
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A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall.
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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
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To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…
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To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…
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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 break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
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To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
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To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
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Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
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Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
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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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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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To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
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To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
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To uncover.
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To uncover.
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To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…
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To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…
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He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
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He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
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To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
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To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…
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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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Gone.
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Gone.
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
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To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
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To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
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To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
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To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
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To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
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Same as Weir.
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Same as Weir.
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The act of abating, or the state of being abated; a lessening, diminution, or reduction; removal or putting an end to; as, the abatement of a nuisanc…
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A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
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A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also…
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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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To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
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A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
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The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks…
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An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and t…
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
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To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…
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The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.
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The act of interpelling or interrupting; interruption.
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The act of introducing or inserting anything, especially that which is spurious or foreign.
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The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.
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A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…
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To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm; to soothe; to quiet.
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The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and pla…
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The act of postponing; a deferring, or putting off, to a future time; a temporary delay.
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The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a s…
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The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which…
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To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days.
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A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
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To arrest.
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The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…
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Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same reli…
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
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To watch; to observe; to take notice.
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Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contin…
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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The act of altering or making different.
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To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
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To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
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To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
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To empty.
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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
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Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
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the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
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To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
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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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To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…
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To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…
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To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
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To cause to turn; to turn.
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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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A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
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To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces.
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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
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To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of mov…
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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers o…
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To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail;…
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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…
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A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.
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Any one sent and empowered to act for another; one deputed to represent; a chosen deputy; a representative; a commissioner; a vicar.
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To appoint as deputy or agent; to commission to act in one's place; to delegate.
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Designated; appointed; chosen.
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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
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To part; to separate or disunite; to disengage; -- the opposite of attach; as, to detach the coats of a bulbous root from each other; to detach a man…
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The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
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To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a buildin…
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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
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To change into a diphthong, as by affixing another vowel to a simple vowel.
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To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
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To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.
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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.
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Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
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To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.
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To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from…
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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…
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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
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To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man…
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The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
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A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
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To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, makin…
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The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.
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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
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Accident; chance; casualty.
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One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
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Jet, the mineral.
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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Gone.
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To clothe; to wrap.
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To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
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Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
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To lead in; to introduce.
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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…
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Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…
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To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…
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A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.
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To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseaso…
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To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an…
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To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…
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To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…
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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 void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.
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To meet; to clash.
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A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.
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Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.
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To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
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To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
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To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.
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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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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
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To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
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To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…
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Same as Squash.
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Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
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To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
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A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
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A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.
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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…
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To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up (what is obscure or difficult to be understood); to work out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a…
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To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…
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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
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Struck.
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To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
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To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
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A small, flexible twig or rod.
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To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
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To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
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To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.
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Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.
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To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…
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Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.
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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…
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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…
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of Wind
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To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
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To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…
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To soil. See Beray.
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To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
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A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
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A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.
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To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
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A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or…
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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
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The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet, separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in a hoop or mold.
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To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
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To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
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A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
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To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.
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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 break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
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Alt. of Crayfish
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To draw or press into wrinkles or folds; to crush together; to rumple; as, to crumple paper.
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.
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To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers o…
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To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
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To disconnect from things associated; to disunite; to dissociate.
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Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint.
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To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
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To separate from fellowship or union; to disunite; to disjoin; as, to dissociate the particles of a concrete substance.
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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
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A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically…
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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…
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To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…
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To clap or strike, as a bird its wings, a fish its tail, etc.; to flap.
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To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
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Affray; broil; contest; combat.
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A frieze.
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To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.
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To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…
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To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseaso…
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A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds…
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A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
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In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation wh…
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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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To accuse of crime; to inform against.
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The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.
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To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to que…
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Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.
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To arrest.
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To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
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The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
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To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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of Run
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To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from…
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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To break at once into many pieces; to dash, burst, or part violently into fragments; to rend into splinters; as, an explosion shatters a rock or a bo…
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Old form of Since.
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To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…
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To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…
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The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.
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of Split
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To leap; to bound; to jump.
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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
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To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
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To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
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To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…
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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…
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Capable of being broken.
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Capable of being broken.
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The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
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The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
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One who, or that which, breaks.
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One who, or that which, breaks.
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of Crack
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of Crack
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Defect; want; lack; default.
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Defect; want; lack; default.
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To br…
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The act of breaking open and entering, with a felonious purpose, the dwelling house of another, whether done by day or night. See Burglary, and To br…
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The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.
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The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.
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The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
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The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
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of Split
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of Split
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The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
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The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon a sloping beach.
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Capable of being violated, broken, or injured.
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Capable of being violated, broken, or injured.
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Violating, or tending to violate.
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Violating, or tending to violate.
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One who, or that which, weakens.
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One who, or that which, weakens.
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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
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Same as Weir.
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A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so…
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A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for wat…
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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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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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To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
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To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
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To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
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To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.
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To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
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To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as,…
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To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as,…
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A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
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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 of breaking, in a figurative sense.
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The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
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of Break
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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
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of Burst
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A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
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To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.
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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 fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…
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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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Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
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To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
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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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of Dice
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To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
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To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
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To uncover.
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The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks…
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To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…
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To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…
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Defect; want; lack; default.
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One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or…
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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Gone.
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Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
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The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
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To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.
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To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…
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The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
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To strike against; to attack; to assail.
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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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A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
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Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
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A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
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To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.
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A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay.
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To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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p. p. of Rive.
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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
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The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the ruptu…
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.
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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
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To make soft or more soft.
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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
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The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
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To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
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To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
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To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…
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Same as Weir.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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