An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…
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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
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An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…
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To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
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A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
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One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
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To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to…
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To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.
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To comb or card, as wool or flax.
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of Beset
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A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…
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See Chivy, v. t.
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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.
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To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.
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To bend or curve
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To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…
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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
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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 drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.
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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…
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A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the lik…
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A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the lik…
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The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.
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The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.
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The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs
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The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs
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To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.
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To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
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To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
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A violent gust of wind.
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A mound or small hill.
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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.
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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in f…
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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
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Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
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To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
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An engine for casting stones.
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