To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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A game of chance played with dice.
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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
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To foretell.
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To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
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To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
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To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
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In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…
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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.
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Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
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Trial; attempt; essay.
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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
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Authority; jurisdiction; control.
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An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
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That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.
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An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light,…
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Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
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Sick.
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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…
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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…
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A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.
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Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.
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Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
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To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
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Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
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Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
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That which happens without design; chance; hazard; hap; hence, chance of danger or loss.
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A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
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Hazard; peril.
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The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determinin…
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To play or game for money or other stake.
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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
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To expose to loss or injury; to risk; to jeopard.
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Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
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That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such…
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Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
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Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
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A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support…
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An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
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Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
A source of potential harm.
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