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An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…

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To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

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A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of…

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One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

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To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to…

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To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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of Beset

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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of Forbid

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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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One who persecutes, or harasses.

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One who persecutes, or harasses.

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An engine for casting stones.

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An engine for casting stones.

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One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.

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One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.

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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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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 frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…

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A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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A mound or small hill.

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To tread under foot; to trample.

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At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

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An engine for casting stones.

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