To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…
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A kind of frock for children.
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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…
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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…
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To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]
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A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other purposes, but especi…
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A fortification, made in haste, of trees, earth, palisades, wagons, or anything that will obstruct the progress or attack of an enemy. It is usually…
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See Barricade.
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…
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The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of supplies; as, the blockade of th…
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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
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That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
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To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.
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A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother.
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A bird.
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Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire s…
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The joint next above the hock, and near the flank, in the hind leg of the horse and allied animals; the joint corresponding to the knee in man; -- ca…
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To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
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Suffocated; choked.
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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 keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
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To beat, pound, or together.
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To push, to press, to shove.
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Difficulty.
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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…
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Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
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To stuff; to lard; to farce.
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Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
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To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.
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To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…
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To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
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A pustule; a pimple.
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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…
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A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.
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A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence.
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One who obstructs or hinders.
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One who obstructs or hinders.
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The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
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The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
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Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
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Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
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The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
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The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…
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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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Fixed; solidified.
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Whole.
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To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops.
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of Jam
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Mass; church service.
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A mobcap.
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To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
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To block up; to stop up or close, as a way or passage; to place an obstacle in, or fill with obstacles or impediments that prevent or hinder passing;…
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To shut up; to close.
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A pact.
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See Picle.
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A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
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An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…
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The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
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of Thring
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Woad.
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To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear;…
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To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear;…
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