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A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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of Beat

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A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

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The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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of Cut

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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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To destroy.

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The act of destroying; a tearing down; a bringing to naught; subversion; demolition; ruin; slaying; devastation.

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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

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To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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of End

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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.

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It.

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a neg…

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of Overcome

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To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.

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To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.

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To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; t…

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To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

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To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.

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The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.

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One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.

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An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

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To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.

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To reduce to nothing or nonexistence; to destroy the existence of; to cause to cease to be.

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To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

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To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.

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To sever the head from; to take off the head of.

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The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous…

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One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.

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To cut off the head of; to behead.

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To take the tenth part of; to tithe.

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To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.

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To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up.

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To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

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To execute or put to death by electricity. -- E*lec`tro*cu"tion, n. [Recent; Newspaper words]

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To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.

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To pluck up by the roots; to root up; as, an oak tree eradicated.

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To rub or scrape out, as letters or characters written, engraved, or painted; to efface; to expunge; to cross out; as, to erase a word or a name.

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To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

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To drive out or away; to expel.

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To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love,…

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To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat, butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lard or fat; as, to fry…

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It.

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To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale.

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To stone.

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To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to deter…

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To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

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One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.

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The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, t…

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The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

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To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.

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In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:

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To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.

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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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Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a dea…

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One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, o…

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Alt. of Sabre

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A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.

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The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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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 act of killing.

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To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.

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To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

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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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Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded…

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To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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Strangulated.

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Suffocated; choked.

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The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

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A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.

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To convert into vapor, as by the application of heat, whether naturally or artificially.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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To strike or hit suddenly, especially with a burst of energy

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The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

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of Behead

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The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

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A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.

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The act of beheading; beheading.

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Same as Dispatch.

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To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.

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The killing of one human being by another.

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The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

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Annihilation by one's own acts; annihilation of one's desires.

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The destruction of one's self; self-murder; suicide.

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The act of killing.

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The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

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The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate an…

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.

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One who deprives of life; one who, or that which, kills.

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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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To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

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Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

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He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Gone.

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.

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