Crank: alternatives and connections

Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.

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Not stable; not firm, fixed, or constant; subject to change or overthrow.

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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.

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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

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Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center o…

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To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Fixed; solidified.

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A paling; a hurdle.

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To bend; as, to flex the arm.

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Gone.

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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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Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flatt…

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Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

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To leap; to jump.

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To labor; to travail.

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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 contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a…

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One of the brachyuran Crustacea. They are mostly marine, and usually have a broad, short body, covered with a strong shell or carapace. The abdomen i…

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A hater of mankind; a misanthropist.

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A misanthrope.

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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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A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common l…

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A rustic; a countryman or laborer.

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Full of spirit; crank.

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An ill-natured person.

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A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or…

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Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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See Meathe.

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The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing…

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One who, or that which, starts; as, a starter on a journey; the starter of a race.

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One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

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Something that has short turns or angles.

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