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A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.

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To declare not to be true; to gainsay; to contradict; -- opposed to affirm, allow, or admit.

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To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.

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To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an…

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Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

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To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

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To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

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To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

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An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.

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To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.

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To part; to divide; to separate.

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To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.

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To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

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To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

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To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or d…

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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…

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To drive or beat back; to repulse.

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To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to…

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See Show.

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To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…

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To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…

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An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.

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An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.

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Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.

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Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.

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Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

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Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

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Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

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Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.

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One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.

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One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.

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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

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To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

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To make matter of controversy; to dispute or oppose by reasoning; to contend against in words or writings; to contest; to debate.

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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

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To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.

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