To bend or curve
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To deny and reject; to abjure.
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To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.
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Strife; contention.
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To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
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To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by fo…
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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 act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract g…
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To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
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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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Moisture; humidity; fog; fogginess; vapor.
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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 make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.
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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.
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Restricted.
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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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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
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A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing…
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.
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to write or engrave around.
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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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The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…
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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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To care; to desire.
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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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The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…
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To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
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To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
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Restricted.
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Restricted.
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A stone /et along a margin as a and protection, as along the edge of a sidewalk next the roadway; an edge stone.
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See Curbstone.
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The head gear with which a horse is governed and restrained, consisting of a headstall, a bit, and reins, with other appendages.
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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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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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of Curb
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To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.
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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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See Curb.
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Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
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Restricted.
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