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A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form.

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The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

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The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government.

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The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

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of Manufacture

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To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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The act of placing, or the state of being placed.

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To leap; to jump.

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Pebbles, collectively; shingle.

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A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.

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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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To be placed in a center; to be central.

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A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornam…

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A high, steep rock; a precipice.

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The act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies.

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The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica i…

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A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the de…

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The act of depressing.

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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…

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The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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The act of uniting in a league; confederation.

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of File

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The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.

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The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

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A leaf, esp. a thin leaf or plate.

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of Forge

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A spring of water issuing from the earth.

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The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.

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The act of forming a groove or grooves; a groove, or collection of grooves.

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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.

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Flax; linen.

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A monoclinal fold.

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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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A flowing out; efflux.

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To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.

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Early; soon.

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A woman whose husband is dead; a widow.

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The quality or state of being reticulated, or netlike; that which is reticulated; network; an organization resembling a net.

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The back, or top of the back; a crest.

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of Rifle

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A ridge.

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of Rig

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A pebble; a stone; also, a heap of stones or rocky debris.

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Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.

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The act of setting, or the state of being settled.

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of Shear

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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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of Split

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To leap; to bound; to jump.

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The astragalus.

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of Turn

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One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous or arterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.

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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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The level formed by the surface of still water.

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A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above t…

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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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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation.

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The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation.

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The act of organizing; the act of arranging in a systematic way for use or action; as, the organization of an army, or of a deliberative body.

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of Shape

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