To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
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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 officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow.
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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
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To empty.
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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
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To bewilder or confuse someone
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Jet, the mineral.
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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
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To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
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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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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…
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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.
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To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
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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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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
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To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.
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Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
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Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
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One who equivocates.
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One who equivocates.
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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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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 frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…
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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
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To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
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A pet; a darling.
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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
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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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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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