To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. (b) To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. (c) To slander, tarnish, or impair, as reputation or character. (d) To impair or diminish, as happiness or virtue. (e) To give pain to, as the sensibilities or the feelings; to grieve; to annoy. (f) To impair, as the intellect or mind.
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To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
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To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…
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To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams w…
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Vexation; mortification.
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To shake or agitate.
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To beat, pound, or together.
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Lacking ability; unable.
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Excruciated; tortured.
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The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
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An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additiona…
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Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
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It.
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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
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To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.
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To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
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The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
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Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
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An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and…
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To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
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To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
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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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A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…
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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…
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The external membranous integument of an animal.
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To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without lux…
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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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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…
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An engine for casting stones.
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Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind.
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To tread under foot; to tread down; to prostrate by treading; as, to trample grass or flowers.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…
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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
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To call out; to summon forth.
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To bring forth young.
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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 cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
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Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
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Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
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Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…
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Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…
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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To strike against; to attack; to assail.
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Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
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