Fence: alternatives and connections

To contend in words; to dispute with zeal, heat, or anger; to wrangle.

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To argue pertinaciously.

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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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To clamor; to contest noisily.

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To surround with a rampart or wall.

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To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.

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To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wra…

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To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.

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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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To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.

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An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

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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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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in…

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To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

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To separate combatants by intervening.

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A line of stout posts or timbers set firmly in the earth in contact with each other (and usually with loopholes) to form a barrier, or defensive fort…

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One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor.

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A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

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One who deals; one who has to do, or has concern, with others; esp., a trader, a trafficker, a shopkeeper, a broker, or a merchant; as, a dealer in d…

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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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To inclose. See Inclose.

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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…

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of Have

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To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

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A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.

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To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.

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To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to re…

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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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One engaged in trade or commerce; one who makes a business of buying and selling or of barter; a merchant; a trafficker; as, a trader to the East Ind…

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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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A row of shrubs, or trees, planted for inclosure or separation of fields.

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of Pale

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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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Alt. of Wear

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One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

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One who fences; one who teaches or practices the art of fencing with sword or foil.

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/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence

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/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence

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A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground…

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A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground…

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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.

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To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.

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To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.

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To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence

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A strong, long stake, one end of which is set firmly in the ground, and the other is sharpened; also, a fence formed of such stakes set in the ground…

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To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope; a wall knot; a wale.

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