Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
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The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after…
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Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.
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To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
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See 1st Frith.
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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
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To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
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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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Saw.
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The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…
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The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
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The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.
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See Waive.
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Strife; contention.
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To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.
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An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter…
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To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
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The side of a ship toward the wind.
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To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash whe…
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A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous.
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A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.
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A dagger; a poniard.
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The lobe of the ear.
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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
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A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
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The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
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A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
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To lap over; to lap.
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an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.
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The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.
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Curtain or covering; -- applied to various membranous partitions, especially to the soft palate. See under Palate.
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Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.
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Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.
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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…
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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…
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The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.
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The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.
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See Waive.
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See Waive.
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One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the cas…
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To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.
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A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles.
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Bustle; confusion; tumult; flutter; bother.
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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…
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Same as Undulated.
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See Waive.
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