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Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.

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Just hove clear of the ground; -- said of the anchor.

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Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.

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Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.

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Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.

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Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.

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Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

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Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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of Emancipate

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of Emancipate

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of Escape

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of Escape

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Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.

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Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.

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Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

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Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.

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Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.

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Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.

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Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.

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Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.

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of Liberate

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of Liberate

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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

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Not having existence.

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Not having existence.

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Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.

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Supreme or highest in power; superior to all others; chief; as, our sovereign prince.

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of Unbind

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of Unbind

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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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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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To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

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To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.

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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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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 go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To retch.

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Taken.

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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

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One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantil…

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To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.

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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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of Cut

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To divest of the body or corporeal existence.

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To disentangle; to free from perplexity; to extricate from confusion.

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To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.

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To free from entanglement; to release from a condition of being intricately and confusedly involved or interlaced; to reduce to orderly arrangement;…

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To uncover; to unfold or unroll; to disentangle.

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To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispens…

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To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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Cut off; set apart.

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To free, as from difficulties or perplexities; to disentangle; to disembarrass; as, to extricate a person from debt, peril, etc.

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To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign.

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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To prove or show to be just; to vindicate; to maintain or defend as conformable to law, right, justice, propriety, or duty.

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To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind…

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A word; an oral utterance.

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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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of Run

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The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

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To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

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To free from chains or slavery; to let loose.

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To disencumber of a clog, or of difficulties and obstructions; to free from encumbrances; to set at liberty.

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To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.

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To loose from tangles or intricacy; to disentangle; to resolve; as, to untangle thread.

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Dismission; discharge.

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Dismission; discharge.

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The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

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The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.

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of Relinquish

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of Relinquish

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The act of relinquishing.

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The act of relinquishing.

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The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

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The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

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Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.

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Not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others; not subordinate; as, few men are wholly independent.

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of Unbind

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of Unbind

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To set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt…

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Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

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Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.

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Costing nothing.

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Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.

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of Detach

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To empty out; to remove.

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.

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To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear;…

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To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislo…

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Cut off; set apart.

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For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.

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Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by…

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Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.

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Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spi…

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To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind…

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Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.

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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

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To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; t…

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imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.

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To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

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To thaw.

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To make loose; to loosen; to set free.

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To loosen; to unloose.

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of Bind

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of Bind

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To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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A frieze.

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A frieze.

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Not free; held in bondage.

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Not free; held in bondage.

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