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A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth.

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A device, usually of metal, consisting of a frame with one more movable tongues or catches, used for fastening things together, as parts of dress or…

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A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.

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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.

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The act of castrating.

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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 shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

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A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

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To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.

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To embrace, hence; to encompass.

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A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.

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A cottager; a cottier.

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Alt. of Cottar

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A withe for fastening a gate.

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of Darn

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A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other,…

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The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.

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A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

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A little band, especially one intended to encircle the hair of the head.

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A ring formed by twisting on itself a single strand of an unlaid rope; also, a metallic eyelet in or for a sail or a mailbag. Sometimes written grumm…

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To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.

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A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

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The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement.

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A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.

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One who, or that which, locks.

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A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

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The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

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the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.

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of Patch

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To peen.

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The act of constructing again; the state of being reconstructed.

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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 or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reestablishment; as, the restora…

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A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…

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Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.

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A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.

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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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of Spay

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of Stop

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A knot; a fastening.

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A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bi…

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The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of th…

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The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, pr…

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The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

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To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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Fixed; solidified.

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Fixed; solidified.

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To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

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To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

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of Alter

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One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

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of Fasten

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Fixed; solidified.

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The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.

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That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is,…

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Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.

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To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put…

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of Mend

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To return.

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The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, re…

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