That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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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 pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument.
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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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To empty.
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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 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 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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Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.
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Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.
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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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Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
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Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice.
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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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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
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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 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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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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