A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
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To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth.
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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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A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
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An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar.
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A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter.
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A mesh.
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A mesh.
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One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.
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One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.
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To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
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To chew with force and noise; to craunch.
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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
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A mesh.
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