The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.
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Obscenity; lewdness.
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The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.
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The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
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That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; le…
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Strong propensity to venery; lust; lecherousness.
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The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
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Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.
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Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of di…
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The state of being dusty.
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The state or quality of being feculent; muddiness; foulness.
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Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
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Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.
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Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
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The state of being grimy.
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The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.
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To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…
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The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness.
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The quality or state of being sordid.
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Quality or state of being squalid.
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Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
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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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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
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Soiled with smut; smutted.
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Soiled with smut; smutted.
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The state or quality of being clean.
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The state or quality of being clean.
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