To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…
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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…
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To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…
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To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
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To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
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Evolved; unfolded.
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Evolved; unfolded.
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To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
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To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
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Jet, the mineral.
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Jet, the mineral.
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A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
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A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
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To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
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To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…
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To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
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To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
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To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
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A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.
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The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as,…
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A small protuberance on the stem or branches of a plant, containing the rudiments of future leaves, flowers, or stems; an undeveloped branch or flowe…
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To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
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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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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…
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To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to develop differential characteristics in; to…
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The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, menta…
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To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.
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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…
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To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from…
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To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
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One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.
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Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.
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In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.
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Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
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To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.
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A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…
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To surpass in growing; to grow more than.
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A bag; a pouch.
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A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
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To become a pupa.
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To grow again.
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A seat of any kind.
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To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.
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A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward.
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To leap; to bound; to jump.
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To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
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A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
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To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…
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Taken.
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One who tills; a husbandman; a cultivator; a plowman.
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
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To change or modify in any way for the better
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.
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Created; composed; begotten.
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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…
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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
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To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To clothe; to wrap.
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To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
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To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of pos…
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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Arranged; furnished; provided.
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To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…
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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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To meet; to clash.
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
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To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…
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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…
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To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.
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To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
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To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…
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To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or i…
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To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.
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One who, or that which, develops.
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One who, or that which, develops.
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The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…
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The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…
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The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…
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The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act o…
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Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
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Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience.
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The act of exploiting or utilizing.
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The act of exploiting or utilizing.
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The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
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The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.
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The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…
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The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity;…
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Beginning; commencement; initiation.
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Beginning; commencement; initiation.
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Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.
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Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.
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The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
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The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
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The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.
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The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.
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Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.
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Having power, or tending, to originate, or bring into existence; originating.
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Alt. of Recrudescency
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Alt. of Recrudescency
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The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
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The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…
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To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
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Evolved; unfolded.
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To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ.
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Jet, the mineral.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
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To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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