To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
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To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
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To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
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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 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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One who rends.
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One who rends.
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To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…
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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…
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to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
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To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
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To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
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Created; composed; begotten.
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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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To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…
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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.
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A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances.
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To leap; to jump.
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To make to exist; to make real.
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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…
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To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
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To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
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To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
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To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
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To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
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To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
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To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…
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Fixed; solidified.
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To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.
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A license of reprisals. See Marque.
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The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.
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To mention by name; to name.
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To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify…
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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…
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of Set
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To make foolish; to make a fool of; as, to stultify one by imposition; to stultify one's self by silly reasoning or conduct.
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The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
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The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.
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The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.
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The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.
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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.
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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
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To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.
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To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
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To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
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of Find
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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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of Grind
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To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
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Established; organized; founded.
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To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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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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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…
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See Show.
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To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…
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To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…
Establish overlaps with show, but its tone, intensity or usual context may differ. Check the definition before substituting it.
To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…
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To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
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To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.
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To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
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To overwhelm by argument; to refute conclusively; to prove or show to be false or defective; to overcome; to silence.
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