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To break to pieces; to shatter.

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Address 76% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Plow 76% connected

Alt. of Plough

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Treat 76% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Advise 76% connected

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

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Bandy 76% connected

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

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Broach 76% connected

A spit.

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Chair 76% connected

A movable single seat with a back.

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Confab 76% connected

Familiar talk or conversation.

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Confabulate 76% connected

To talk familiarly together; to chat; to prattle.

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Confer 76% connected

To bring together for comparison; to compare.

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Consider 76% connected

To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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Consult 76% connected

To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

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Counsel 76% connected

Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

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Debate 76% connected

To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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Deliberate 76% connected

Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in det…

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Descant 76% connected

Originally, a double song; a melody or counterpoint sung above the plain song of the tenor; a variation of an air; a variation by ornament of the mai…

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Lead 76% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Moderate 76% connected

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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Moot 76% connected

See 1st Mot.

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Negotiate 76% connected

To transact business; to carry on trade.

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Powwow 76% connected

To use conjuration, with noise and confusion, for the cure of disease, etc., as among the North American Indians.

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Rede 76% connected

To advise or counsel.

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Discourse 92% connected

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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