Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
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Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription.
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Incapable of being read; not legible; as, illegible handwriting; an illegible inscription.
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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
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Giving offense; causing displeasure or resentment; displeasing; annoying; as, offensive words.
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of Soil
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of Soil
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of Tangle
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of Tangle
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Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
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Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
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To deprive of fairness or beauty.
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To deprive of fairness or beauty.
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Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
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Acting contrary to the standard of right; not animated or controlled by justice; false; dishonest; as, an unjust man or judge.
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To attain; to get act; to hit.
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To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
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To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…
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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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The black grime or soot of coal.
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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
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The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.
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Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.
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Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.
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It.
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To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.
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The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.
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A kind of frock for children.
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To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…
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To shut up; to close.
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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
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A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…
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To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…
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The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…
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A frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.
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Infected. Cf. Enfect.
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The ear, or its lobe.
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Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
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Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as…
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The quality or condition of being foul.
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The quality or condition of being foul.
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In collision; entangled.
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To make foul; to soil.
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of Cheat
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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
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That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
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To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.
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To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
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To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.
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Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting.
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of Disgust
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Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
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Having an offensive smell; stinking.
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Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.
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of Foul
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Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
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Loathsome.
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Fitted to cause loathing; exciting disgust; disgusting.
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To spot; to stain; to blur.
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Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
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Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
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To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.
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Driving back; able or tending to repel.
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of Repel
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of Revolt
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Soiled with smut; smutted.
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of Stink
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Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
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Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
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Free from spots, specks, dirt, or imperfection; unblemished; clean; pure.
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