To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
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The prostration made by mandarins and others to their superiors, either as homage or worship, by knocking the forehead on the ground. There are degrees in the rite, the highest being expressed by three knockings.
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To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
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of Bow
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One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens.
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Obedience.
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A toady.
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A toady.
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The same as Kotow.
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The same as Kotow.
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A toady.
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A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
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The same as Kotow.
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A mean flatterer; a toadeater; a sycophant.
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A small wheel or caster.
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