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A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

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To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrator…

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A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a fa…

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Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.

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a woman's virtue or chastity

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That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

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Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

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Same as Poor, the fish.

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That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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The top or highest point; the culmination.

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To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

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The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.

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The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale o…

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Alt. of Calibre

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The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8…

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Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

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The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the…

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The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.

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The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Extended.

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At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

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The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone intermediate between F and G.

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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The condition of being high; elevated position.

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To hie.

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The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.

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The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance.

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Want of moderation.

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The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

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The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

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A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds…

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strong imp. of Laugh.

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The state or quality of being low.

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Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

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The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.

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The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

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A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

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Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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of Quicken

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Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.

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The top; the highest point.

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Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the…

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The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

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A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.)

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The sixth part of a circle.

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To hie.

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To hie.

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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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strong imp. of Laugh.

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strong imp. of Laugh.

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Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeab…

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Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeab…

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A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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To appoint.

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A floor or story of a house.

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