Gag: alternatives and connections

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

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To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or…

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The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity.

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To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.

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To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

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Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

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the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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To still; to silence; to calm; to make quiet; to repress the noise or clamor of.

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A deed; an action; a gest.

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Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a wit…

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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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An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, phy…

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To make sick; to disease.

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The state of being silent; entire absence of sound or noise; absolute stillness.

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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Motionless; at rest; quiet; as, to stand still; to lie or sit still.

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To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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A knot; a fastening.

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of Wit

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A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.

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The quality of being witty.

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Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.

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One who howls.

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Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.

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To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.

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of Choke

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of Choke

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Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a wit…

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Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a wit…

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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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See 1st Frith.

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To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

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To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.

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A deed; an action; a gest.

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Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a wit…

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To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the fa…

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The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.

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A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.

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To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

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To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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Suffocated; choked.

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