To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.
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To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
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To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
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A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…
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A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…
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To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.
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To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.
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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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To engage in continuous thought; to think.
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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 tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
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To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc., or in strength, quality, or excellence; as…
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To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
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A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement.
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
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An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…
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To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, ran…
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To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.
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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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Honor; grace; favor; mercy; clemency; happy augry.
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An example; a model; a pattern.
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An original or model after which anything is copied; the pattern of anything to be engraved, or otherwise copied, cast, or the like; a primary form;…
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
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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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To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
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a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily,…
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To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
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To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.
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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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Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
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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 thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…
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To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
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Bright; glittering; fiery.
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An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…
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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…
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The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
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The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
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The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
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The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.
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The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.
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The quality of being dense, close, or thick; compactness; -- opposed to rarity.
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To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
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To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
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A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.
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A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…
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To draw or bring to a center point; to gather into or about a center; to bring into one system, or under one control.
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To be placed in a center; to be central.
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To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
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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 prepare by boiling; to digest in hot or boiling water; to extract the strength or flavor of by boiling; to make an infusion of.
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To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
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A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.
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One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…
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