That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
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Lacking ability; unable.
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To disable; to disqualify.
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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 deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
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To care; to desire.
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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 draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…
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To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
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The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
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A cottage or small house; a hut.
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A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.
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A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
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To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
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That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
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To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruc…
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To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.
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To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.
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To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.
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To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.
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To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements…
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A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond;…
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To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
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To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…
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A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
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A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber,…
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One who halts or limps; a cripple.
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A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which…
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To wall around; to surround with walls.
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To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for…
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To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
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To imprison; to confine in a jail or prison.
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Internal.
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A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future ju…
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A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
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To care; to desire.
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Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
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A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
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A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.
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To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
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An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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To recommit; to send back.
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To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…
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Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisi…
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Stubble.
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To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
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To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.
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To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.
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To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…
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A knot; a fastening.
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To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.
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To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
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A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.
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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
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To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.
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To keep back or from; to withhold.
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To inclose. See Inclose.
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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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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…
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To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…
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Restricted.
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The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
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A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…
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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…
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