Defect; want; lack; default.
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Accusation.
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The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
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A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
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A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.
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The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.
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The state of being imperfect.
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The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.
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A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure.
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To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…
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Alt. of Service
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To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and…
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A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fl…
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A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.
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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
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To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
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A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
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A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
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To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
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A large, highly esteemed, edible fish of India (Lates calcarifer); -- also called begti.
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The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
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The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.
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The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.
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The quality of being foolish.
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Whole.
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The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.
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A running into; hence, an entering into a territory with hostile intention; a temporary invasion; a predatory or harassing inroad; a raid.
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A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…
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A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.
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An erroneous computation.
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The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
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Watchful care; superintendence; general supervision.
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To deny; to disown.
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To call or bring back; to recall.
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A basket. See Skep.
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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 overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.
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The quality or state of being stupid; extreme dullness of perception or understanding; insensibility; sluggishness.
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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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A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
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A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
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Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
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Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended.
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To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
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To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
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To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
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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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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
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That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
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A wandering; a roving or irregular course.
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of Fault
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A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase.
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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