To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen…
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That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
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Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
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To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
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The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…
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To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.
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A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a rope which hold…
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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
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To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.
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An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
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To cook by exposure to radiant heat before a fire; as, to roast meat on a spit, or in an oven open toward the fire and having reflecting surfaces wit…
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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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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
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To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
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To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.
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To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.
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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…
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To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
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Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
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A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
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To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…
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To soil. See Beray.
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To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
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A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
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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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A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators.
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To put faith (in); to repose confidence; to trust; -- usually followed by in; as, the prince confides in his ministers.
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The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…
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To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.
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To throw or spread out; to flutter; to move ostentatiously; as, a flaunting show.
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A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allow…
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To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure.
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A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.
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A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
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The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to…
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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 make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly.
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In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation wh…
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To accuse of crime; to inform against.
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A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in f…
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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 position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; espe…
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…
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obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
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To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.
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To leap; to bound; to jump.
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See Sunn.
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of Swink
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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
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To remove a cloak or cover from; to deprive of a cloak or cover; to unmask; to reveal.
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To strip of clothes or covering; to make naked.
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To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
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To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.
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To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.
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To strip of a mask or disguise; to lay open; to expose.
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To remove a veil from; to divest of a veil; to uncover; to disclose to view; to reveal; as, she unveiled her face.
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To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
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To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a…
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To uncover.
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To uncover.
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To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
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To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
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The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…
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The act of exposing or laying open, setting forth, laying bare of protection, depriving of care or concealment, or setting out to reprobation or cont…
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The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
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The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerableness.
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
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To uncover.
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To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
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To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…
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To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.
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To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to disp…
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Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
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At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…
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To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
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An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.
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To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.
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To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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