Keen: alternatives and connections

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

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Of or pertaining to the act or power of perceiving; having the faculty or power of perceiving; used in perception.

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Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.

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Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.

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See Coranach.

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A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.

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To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.

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A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.

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A song of lamentation; a threnode.

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One who, or that which, grieves.

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One who, or that which, grieves.

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To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.

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To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.

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The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

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The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.

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The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

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The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

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Alt. of Greeve

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The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief a…

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Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

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A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

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of Cork

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of Crack

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of Cut

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One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

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of Discriminate

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Carefully selected or sought out; hence, of distinguishing and surpassing quality; exceedingly nice; delightfully excellent; giving rare satisfaction…

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Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, lengt…

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Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.

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To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.

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of Lanciname

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Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.

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Open country.

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Resembling a peach or peaches.

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of Penetrate

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Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun.

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of Pierce

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Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen.

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of Smash

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of Stab

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To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the le…

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