Demerit: alternatives and connections

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.

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To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and…

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Defect; want; lack; default.

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The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

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The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

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