To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…
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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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To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…
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To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…
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Burnt; consumed.
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Burnt; consumed.
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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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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
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To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
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Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
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Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…
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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…
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A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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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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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…
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See Color.
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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Created; composed; begotten.
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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
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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 alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolore…
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To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…
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Trial, as a test or experiment.
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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…
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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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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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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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A small lake. See Mere.
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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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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
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Alt. of Scath
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To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by…
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To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
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To scatter; to disperse.
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Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.
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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
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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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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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To make or render black.
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A stream of gas or vapor emitting light and heat in the process of combustion; a bright flame.
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To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
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Alt. of Charr
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A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.
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To burn; to reduce to ashes by the action of fire, either directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, inst…
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To burn with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; also, to snap and crackle with slight explosions when heated, as salt.
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A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire.
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To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
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A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
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To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
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That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…
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To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
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To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as,…
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Alt. of Sere
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To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.
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Alt. of Smoulder
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To burn and smoke without flame; to waste away by a slow and supressed combustion.
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A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
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To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
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To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.
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To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as,…
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To burn slightly or superficially; to burn the surface of; to burn the ends or outside of; as, to singe the hair or the skin.
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Combustible.
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Combustible.
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One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
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One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything.
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A cauterizing substance.
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A cauterizing substance.
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The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
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The act of searing some morbid part by the application of a cautery or caustic; also, the effect of such application.
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To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
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To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
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A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
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A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.
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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…
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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…
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One who, or that which, stings.
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One who, or that which, stings.
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Burnt; consumed.
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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To burn superficially; to parch, or shrivel, the surface of, by heat; to subject to so much heat as changes color and texture without consuming; as,…
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Alt. of Sere
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To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…
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To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.
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Burnt; consumed.
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.
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Reduced to ashes by burning; thoroughly consumed.
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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…
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To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.
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