A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulvus), the American gray fox (V. Virginianus), and the arctic, white, or blue, fox (V. lagopus) are well-known species.
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Mixed; confounded.
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Mixed; confounded.
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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
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A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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Alt. of Algonkin
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One who, or that which, beguiles.
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Of or pertaining to the family Canidae, or dogs and wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that or those of a dog.
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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
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One who cheats.
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To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
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To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to…
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One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor.
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To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of; to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
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The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.
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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
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The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
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That which makes smooth or sleek.
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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…
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To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.
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To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth.
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To bewilder or confuse someone
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Jet, the mineral.
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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
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To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…
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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.
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A female fox.
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Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.
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Like or pertaining to the fox; foxlike in disposition or looks; wily.
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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
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To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
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To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
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Mixed; confounded.
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One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices.
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A little pocket for a watch.
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To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
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A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.
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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
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