To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
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To aim; to direct.
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To aim; to direct.
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To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
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To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
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To fasten on, as armor.
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To fasten on, as armor.
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To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a…
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To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a…
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Alt. of Plough
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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
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To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…
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To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…
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To administer.
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An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.
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To mock; to ridicule.
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To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
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To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.
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To parboil, or soften by boiling.
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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
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Equal in rank or order; not subordinate.
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A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…
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To break to pieces; to shatter.
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Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the a…
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Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
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To feel or grope about; to make awkward attempts to do or find something.
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To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
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To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain
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To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.
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To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.
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To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate…
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The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritu…
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Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.
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To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
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To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
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To treat amiss; to abuse.
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To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
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One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles a…
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To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…
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To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
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To bend.
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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.
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A low shoe with a thin sole.
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To sob with convulsions.
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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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To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…
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To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sw…
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To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.
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To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…
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imp. of Wring. Wrung.
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Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.
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A spit.
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To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
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To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.
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A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.
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To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate…
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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A stick used as a handle of a broom.
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The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.
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The stock or wood to which the barrel of a hand gun is fastened.
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A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; t…
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The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
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A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.
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A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
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A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form
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The bow or arch in the front part of a saddle, or the pieces which form the front.
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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
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The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…
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The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…
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The griffin.
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The griffin.
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Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.
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Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.
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One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.
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One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.
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Alt. of Aspergillum
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The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches.
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The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
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A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
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An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…
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A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
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A covered pot in which coffee is prepared, or is brought upon the table for drinking.
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The business of a cutler.
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A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called al…
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A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
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A cart drawn or pushed by hand.
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A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
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That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.
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A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
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A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.
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A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It…
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See Racket.
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A small pan with a handle, in which sauce is prepared over a fire; a stewpan.
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A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.
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An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, et…
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A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock.
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A small cup from which to drink tea.
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A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton…
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See Chank.
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Alt. of Steem
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To aim; to direct.
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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
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The griffin.
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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
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The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.
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The inner and somewhat concave part of the hand between the bases of the fingers and the wrist.
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Alt. of Plough
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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.
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To govern; to rule; to keep, or have in charge; also, to possess.
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