To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
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To empty.
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The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
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Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
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The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
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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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A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
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The science of military command, or the science of projecting campaigns and directing great military movements; generalship.
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The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.
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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
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A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
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A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…
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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
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The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
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of Dodge
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A pet; a darling.
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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…
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To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…
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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…
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To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
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A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.
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The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.
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An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
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