To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
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To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
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A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…
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A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…
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Detected.
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Detected.
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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
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To uncover.
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To uncover.
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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…
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Jet, the mineral.
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Jet, the mineral.
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To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
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To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
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To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…
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To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…
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The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.
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The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.
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To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…
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To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…
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To cover again.
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To cover again.
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To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
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To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
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To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
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To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
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That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…
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That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…
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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
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The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…
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The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…
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Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
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Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
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A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince.
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To measure.
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To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
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To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
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To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…
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To fix the bounds of; to bring to a termination; to end.
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To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.
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Delineated; portrayed.
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To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish.
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To uncover.
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Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.
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To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a s…
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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…
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An animal of the Weasel family (Mustela / Putorius furo), about fourteen inches in length, of a pale yellow or white color, with red eyes. It is a na…
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To measure or determine with a gauge.
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To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
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That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…
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To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.
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To know again; to perceive the identity of, with a person or thing previously known; to recover or recall knowledge of.
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To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…
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To bend sharply and abruptly back; to break off.
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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
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A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the bod…
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The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
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Alt. of Situated
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To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…
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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 touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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Taken.
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One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be draw…
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To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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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 achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
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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 contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
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To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
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To shut up; to inclose.
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Dead.
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To point out; to show; to exhibit; to make evident.
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To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…
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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
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Trial, as a test or experiment.
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A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
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Jet, the mineral.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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It.
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A sight or view of the interior of anything; a deep inspection or view; introspection; -- frequently used with into.
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A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…
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A tassel.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…
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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…
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To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character,…
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To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…
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To try or to ascertain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the conte…
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To retch.
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A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…
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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
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See Show.
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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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The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.
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To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.
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of Catch
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The act of detecting; the laying open what was concealed or hidden; discovery; as, the detection of a thief; the detection of fraud, forgery, or a pl…
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The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
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The act of espying; notice; discovery.
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of Find
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of Spot
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of Spy
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of Trace
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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
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The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
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The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
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One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
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One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…
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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…
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of Feel
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of Feel
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One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for th…
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One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for th…
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of Find
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of Find
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The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
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The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
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of Rule
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of Rule
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To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
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A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
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Detected.
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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
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To uncover.
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The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot.
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To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…
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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…
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Jet, the mineral.
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To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.
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To meet or fall in with, as something inconvenient, harmful, or onerous; to put one's self in the way of; to expose one's self to; to become liable o…
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The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note.
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To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…
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To hold; to keep; to possess.
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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 cover again.
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To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
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To find again; to recover; to regain; to restore from loss or injury; as, to retrieve one's character; to retrieve independence.
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That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a r…
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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
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of Uncover
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Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
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To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…
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To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…
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