To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
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Gone.
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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To labor; to travail.
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To labor; to travail.
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To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…
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To be placed in a center; to be central.
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The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
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To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
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To urge; to persuade; to incite.
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To push, to press, to shove.
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To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
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To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
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To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.
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To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…
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To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of join…
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To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislo…
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To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusion…
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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
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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 quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…
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Elevated; raised aloft.
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To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…
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To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
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To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
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To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumo…
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Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
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To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
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To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
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To stuff; to lard; to farce.
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A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.
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Leave of abserice; especially, leave given to an offcer or soldier to be absent from service for a certain time; also, the document granting leave of…
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The glede or kite.
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Haired.
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It.
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To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
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To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.
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A turn. [Only in phrase.]
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To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
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of Lie, to recline.
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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
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A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
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Compar. of Low, a.
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Luxated.
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The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.
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To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.
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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
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To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…
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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…
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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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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
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Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
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Poor.
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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
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A low shoe with a thin sole.
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A pustule; a pimple.
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A pit.
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To raze.
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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
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An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…
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To locate again.
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The act of repositing; a laying up.
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To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
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To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
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A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is…
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See Roc.
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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…
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To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
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A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
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To leap or dance.
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To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
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To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…
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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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Pay; reward.
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Bad singing or poetry.
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To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…
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To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
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An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to…
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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
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Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
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A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
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To spatter; to splash.
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To display; to spread.
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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…
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The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
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To change the place of in any manner; to move.
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
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To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
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To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…
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To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
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To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…
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To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
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To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
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To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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A twist; a convolution.
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To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.
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To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
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To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
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To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
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To set up; to put upright.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…
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See Waive.
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A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising…
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To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a s…
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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…
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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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To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
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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 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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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 cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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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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To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
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To come, or be placed, in the room of; to replace.
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To trip up.
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Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed…
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Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed…
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…
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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…
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A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
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A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]
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To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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To settle upon (public land) with a right of preemption, as under the laws of the United States; to take by preemption.
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A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
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To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.
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