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A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…

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A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…

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To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.

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To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

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To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf.

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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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Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

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To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.

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To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

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To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.

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Bright; glittering; fiery.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the…

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A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others.

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Fitted; suited.

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To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body, or things to a stan…

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To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

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To range or place in a line; to bring into line; to align.

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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Clearness; brightness; splendor.

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The quality or state of being clear.

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.

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Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.

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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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The quality or state of being distinct; a separation or difference that prevents confusion of parts or things.

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A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to im…

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The act of engrossing; as, the engrossment of a deed.

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The act of immersing, or the state of being immersed; a sinking within a fluid; a dipping; as, the immersion of Achilles in the Styx.

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The quality or state of being limpid.

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The quality or state of being lucid.

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The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

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Alt. of Pellucidness

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To appoint.

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of Set

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To make sharp.

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The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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A minute description; a detailed statement.

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To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

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To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.

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Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point.

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The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.

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The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.

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of Focus

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of Focus

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To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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of Centre

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To be placed in a center; to be central.

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of Centre

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Alt. of Concentre

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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…

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To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.

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The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.

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of Focus

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A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease e…

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One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

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A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down…

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To make sharp.

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Distress.

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To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

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To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

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