To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
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To distribute by lot.
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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…
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To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
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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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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject mo…
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That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…
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To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.
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Cut off; set apart.
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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.
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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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A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal…
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A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp., a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal…
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The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts a…
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The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts a…
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The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…
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The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate am…
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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…
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To distribute by lot.
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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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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
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That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
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