Concern: alternatives and connections

To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

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To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion; to have reference to a subject not specifically and plainly mentioned; -- followed by to; as, the…

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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 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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That which is done or is to be done; matter; concern; as, a difficult affair to manage; business of any kind, commercial, professional, or public; --…

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The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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The business or employment of a broker.

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Alt. of Bugbear

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That which is borne or carried; a load.

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That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

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A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornam…

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The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in d…

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That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.

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Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.

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Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

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A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a d…

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A burdensome and troublesome load; anything that impedes motion or action, or renders it difficult or laborious; clog; impediment; hindrance; check.

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A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

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One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.

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One who manufactures.

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That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of concep…

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A burden; an obligation.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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The state or condition of being a partner; as, to be in partnership with another; to have partnership in the fortunes of a family or a state.

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A person whose occupation is to construct ships and other vessels; a naval architect; a shipwright.

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The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.

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The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

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Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.

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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 be placed in a center; to be central.

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To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…

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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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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

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A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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To keep in view; to behold; to look at; to view; to gaze upon.

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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Taken.

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To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to…

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Concern or solicitude respecting some thing or event, future or uncertain, which disturbs the mind, and keeps it in a state of painful uneasiness.

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduo…

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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The act of involving, or the state of being involved.

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Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if…

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

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That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

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Pain in the head; cephalalgia.

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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To take or hold possession of; to hold or keep for use; to possess.

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To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocea…

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To carry or send back.

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To bring back; to restore.

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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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The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference.

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Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference.

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