To urge; to persuade; to incite.
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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
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To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.
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A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…
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Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.
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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
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To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
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To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
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To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
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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 put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
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To set up; to put upright.
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Tending to excite; exciting.
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Tending to excite; exciting.
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The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.
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The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.
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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
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To call to activity in any way; to rouse to feeling; to kindle to passionate emotion; to stir up to combined or general activity; as, to excite a per…
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To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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