To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.
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Serving to gratify; agreeable.
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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.
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A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.
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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
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A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.
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To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…
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The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.
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To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…
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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
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To render null and void.
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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…
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Sound of any kind.
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.
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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
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One who rends.
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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…
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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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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
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To strike together, as in anger or pain; as, to gnash the teeth.
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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
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To masticate; to chew; to eat.
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To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
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The foot of a quadruped having claws, as the lion, dog, cat, etc.
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A lattice or grating.
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One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance…
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One who, or that which, grates; especially, an instrument or utensil with a rough, indented surface, for rubbing off small particles of any substance…
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of Grate
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of Grate
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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…
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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…
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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…
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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…
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An instrument with which anything is scraped.
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An instrument with which anything is scraped.
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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…
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An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking potter…
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To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
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of Stave
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See 1st Frith.
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of Grate
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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
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To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…
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