To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
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An incorporated town. See 1st Borough.
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A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.
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To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
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A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach…
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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…
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The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
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A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.
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A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a dep…
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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
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To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
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To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
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Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.
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An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loo…
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A hart or stag three years old.
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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
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A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
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To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
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A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a fun…
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To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
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To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…
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A stroke; a blow.
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To dash; to throw violently.
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To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
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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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Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…
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An evil spirit of the waters.
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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To mark in a notable manner; to distinquish clearly; to make noticeable or conspicuous; to piont out.
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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
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The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position; as, the site of a city or of a house.
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Taken.
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Thrist.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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of Touch
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To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…
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To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to disclose; as, to unearth a secret.
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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…
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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…
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One who, or that which, digs.
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One who, or that which, digs.
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To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
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To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
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The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
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The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
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To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.
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To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.
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of Mine
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of Mine
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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
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One who toils, or labors painfully.
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One who toils, or labors painfully.
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
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Taken.
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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…
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To take or seize; to take hold of.
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Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
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A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
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To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
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To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
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of Dig
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To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
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To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
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The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
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A knot or coarse part in cloth.
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To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
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To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of.
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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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Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow s…
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To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.
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To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…
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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
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To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
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A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…
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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
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The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
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of Shoot
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To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
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To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to sta…
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A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for taking prey; -- usually in the plural.
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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
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