To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
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The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
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To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
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A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.
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The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.
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See Techiness.
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The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.
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Capable of being irriated.
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Capable of being irriated.
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The state of being bilious.
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The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.
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The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.
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The quality of being readily excited; proneness to be affected by exciting causes.
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The quality of being fussy.
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The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.
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Alt. of Petulancy
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The quality or state of being surly.
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To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…
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