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An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

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An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

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A melody; a song.

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General course of conduct; behavior.

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The act of dictating; the act or practice of prescribing; also that which is dictated.

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The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

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The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expr…

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The commercial language of the Levant, -- a mixture of the languages of the people of the region and of foreign traders.

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Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.

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A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.

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An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault.

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The art of uttering words correctly; a correct pronunciation of words; also, mode of pronunciation.

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The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinc…

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of Read

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of Say

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of Sign

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The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.

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A spelk, or splinter.

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an organ situated in the floor of the mouth of most vertebrates and connected with the hyoid arch.

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The designation of position and direction.

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The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

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The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

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The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any…

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A model or measure.

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A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, o…

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The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

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Of or pertaining to terminology.

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Of or pertaining to terminology.

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A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of e…

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A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or aut…

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That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

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Of or pertaining to the voice or speech; having voice; endowed with utterance; full of voice, or voices.

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Alt. of Lyrical

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A name.

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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.

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