Catch: alternatives and connections

The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

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The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Jet, the mineral.

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Jet, the mineral.

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A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

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A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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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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To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

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To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

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To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Taken.

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Taken.

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To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

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A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.

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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

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To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…

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To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

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To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.

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A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

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The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

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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 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 gripe or clinching with, or as with, the fingers or claws; seizure; grasp.

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To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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Burnt; consumed.

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To put together; to construct; to build.

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To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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To bend or curve

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A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingering inactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.

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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.

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To keep back or from; to withhold.

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To uncover.

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.

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To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

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One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

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To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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Jet, the mineral.

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Gone.

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To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.

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It.

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See Hoarding, 2.

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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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Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.

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To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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To lay hold of; to seize.

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To produce again.

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The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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To fall or rush upon suddenly and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp.

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The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property…

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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

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Taken.

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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 labor; to travail.

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To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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To catch in a snare. See Insnare.

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To catch in a trap; to insnare; hence, to catch, as in a trap, by artifices; to involve in difficulties or distresses; to catch or involve in contrad…

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A counter, used in various games.

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An amphibious animal of the genus Rana and related genera, of many species. Frogs swim rapidly, and take long leaps on land. Many of the species utte…

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Jet, the mineral.

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A spear or javelin used to strike and kill large fish, as whales; a harping iron. It consists of a long shank, with a broad, fiat, triangular head, s…

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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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A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

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To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for s…

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To take or seize by the way, or before arrival at the destined place; to cause to stop on the passage; as, to intercept a letter; a telegram will int…

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A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc.

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To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.

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To take or receive again.

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A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and…

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A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

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A contrivance, often consisting of a noose of cord, or the like, by which a bird or other animal may be entangled and caught; a trap; a gin.

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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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A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

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To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

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To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.

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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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To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog; especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking.

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A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

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The block or strip of wood or similar material which stops, at the right place, the shutting of a door.

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A clasp, especially a metal strap permanently fast at one end to a staple or pin, while the other passes over a staple, and is fastened by a padlock…

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A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

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The act of intercepting; as, interception of a letter; interception of the enemy.

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To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.

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To smear; to anoint.

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The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

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A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel…

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To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

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The act of receiving; receipt; admission; as, the reception of food into the stomach; the reception of a letter; the reception of sensation or ideas;…

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To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.

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One who trips or supplants; also, one who walks or trips nimbly; a dancer.

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The act of captivating.

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The act of captivating.

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A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.

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A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.

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One who, or that which, catches.

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One who, or that which, catches.

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A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

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A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

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To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of book…

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To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of book…

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Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot.

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Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot.

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The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or…

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The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or…

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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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A wrong step; an error of conduct.

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A wrong step; an error of conduct.

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The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

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The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

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One who views or examines.

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One who views or examines.

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A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or o…

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A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or o…

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To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.

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To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

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To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses.

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To charm; to captivate.

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To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.

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To gain an ascendency over by charms or incantations; to affect (esp. to injure) by witchcraft or sorcery.

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To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

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The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

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A melody; a song.

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Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the collar of a do…

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To inflame with love; to charm; to captivate; -- with of, or with, before the person or thing; as, to be enamored with a lady; to be enamored of book…

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To charm by sorcery; to act on by enchantment; to get control of by magical words and rites.

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The act of entering or going into; ingress; as, the entrance of a person into a house or an apartment; hence, the act of taking possession, as of pro…

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To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.

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Jet, the mineral.

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A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

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To pull or draw with force; to drag.

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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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To hear more of (anything) than was intended to be heard; to hear by accident or artifice.

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To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as be…

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.

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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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A tedious journey.

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The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…

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To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.

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To free from being hitched, or as if from being hitched; to unfasten; to loose; as, to unhitch a horse, or a trace.

Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.