A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
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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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That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
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To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help…
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The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
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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 move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.
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To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.
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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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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
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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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To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to sta…
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The point of a spear, or an arrowhead.
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A sparrow.
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A sparrow.
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of Goad
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of Goad
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A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
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A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
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A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…
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A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…
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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
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A sparrow.
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A sparrow.
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of Urge
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of Urge
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of Goad
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A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
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That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.
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of Prod
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A sparrow.
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of Spur
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of Urge
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