To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
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To defile by adultery.
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To defile by adultery.
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To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
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To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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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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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…
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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…
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To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
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To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.
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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
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A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.
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A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
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To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
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To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
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To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
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To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
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To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
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To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
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To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
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To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…
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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
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To inclose; to infold.
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To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…
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To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.
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Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
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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 become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…
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To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out.
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
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To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
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To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
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One who rends.
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To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
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obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
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To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…
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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.
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To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
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To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.
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A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel.
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A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…
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Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
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To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or d…
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A marriage portion; dowry.
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To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.
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To lap over; to lap.
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To strain one's self to excess.
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The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
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To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
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To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
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To array.
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The back, or top of the back; a crest.
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imp. & p. p. of Spin.
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To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing o…
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Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.
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To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sw…
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Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
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A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
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To comply with the time or occasion; to humor, or yield to, the current of opinion or circumstances; also, to trim, as between two parties.
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To enlarge by extension of territory.
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Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along and under, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examining it.
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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…
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That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
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That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
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Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality…
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Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality…
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Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.
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Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible.
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Extended.
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Extended.
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To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
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To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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of Offer
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of Offer
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Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
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Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.
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The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.
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The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.
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The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.
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The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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of Strain
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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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To grow broad; to become broader or wider.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
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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 lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
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Alt. of Exserted
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To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
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Gone.
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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
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To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.
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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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To open the folds of; to expand; to spread out; as, to unfold a tablecloth.
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To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
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