Defect: alternatives and connections

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

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Deprivation of advantage; unfavorable or prejudicial quality, condition, circumstance, or the like; that which hinders success, or causes loss or inj…

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To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, makin…

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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.

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The state of being imperfect.

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Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.

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The scaup duck.

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A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fl…

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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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 cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, w…

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To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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A stroke; a blow.

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To dash; to throw violently.

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A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, wi…

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Whole.

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A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.

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An evil spirit of the waters.

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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…

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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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A suffocating smoke.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

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A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

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The blue-winged snow goose.

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One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the N…

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The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

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The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

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One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service…

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One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service…

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The act of renouncing.

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The act of renouncing.

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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 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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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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Defect; want; lack; default.

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A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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The act of falling, or coming short

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