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A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

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Evolved; unfolded.

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To explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applie…

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A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.

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To butt; to push with the horns.

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To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…

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To advise or counsel.

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To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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To refer.

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The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

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Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace, in speech.

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Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.

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A compound of bromine with a positive radical.

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A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.

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Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.

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Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

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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 turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…

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Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of di…

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A mode of opening the game, in which a pawn is sacrificed to gain an attacking position.

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To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.

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A vine or climbing shrub, of the genus Vitis, having small green flowers and lobed leaves, and bearing the fruit called grapes.

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Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from another.

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To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.

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A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.

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A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

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The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

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To butt; to push with the horns.

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The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.

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The quality or state of being flat, thin, or insipid; flat commonness; triteness; staleness of ideas of language.

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Sport; frolic.

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A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.

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The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.

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The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

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See Reflection.

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One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

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A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public fame; notoriety.

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Open the dictionary entry to review the exact meaning.

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To leap or rush out; to burst forth; to issue suddenly; as a body of troops from a fortified place to attack besiegers; to make a sally.

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Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgr…

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The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

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of Shoot

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To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.

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One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.

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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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A quick, witty remark

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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.

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A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.

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To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

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To write comments or notes upon; to make comments.

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A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

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A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.

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Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

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A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.

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To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.

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