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Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.

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Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.

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Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

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To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.

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An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction fro…

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

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A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.

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A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's

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Alt. of But

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To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.

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The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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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 lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich al…

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To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.

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To inclose. See Inclose.

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To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.

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To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; to inhume.

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Fixed; solidified.

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of Grind

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Alt. of Imbricated

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To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

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To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to inter.

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To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

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To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.

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To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.

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To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book.

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To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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A turn. [Only in phrase.]

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To place in juxtaposition.

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A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

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To conceal.

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A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

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Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.

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Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station…

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To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.

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To make and occupy a nest; to nest.

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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 render parallel.

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A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.

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Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flav…

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A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartm…

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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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Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.

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A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.

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To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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To postpone.

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To place or set before; to prefix.

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Same as Arrack.

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An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

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To bury again.

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A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.

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To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.

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To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

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To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

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The act of repositing; a laying up.

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To arrest.

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The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

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of Seed

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of Set

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A seat of any kind.

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To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.

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Pay; reward.

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That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower lev…

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obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Alt. of Situated

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To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.

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To sew. See Sew.

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Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

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To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position

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To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.

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To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.

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To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.

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The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Thrist.

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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.

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To lay beneath; to put under.

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To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

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To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…

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To lay on; to set or place; to put; to deposit.

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A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to the Spanish real of one eighth of a dollar (or 12/ cents), valued at eleven pence wh…

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To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter;…

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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and…

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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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A pit.

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To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

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of Set

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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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The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old n…

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The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.

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The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.

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The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.

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One who, or that which, lays.

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One who, or that which, lays.

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of Set

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of Set

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of Set

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of Set

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See Lye.

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The herb sage, or salvia.

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The herb sage, or salvia.

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To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.

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To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.

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To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.

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To take the load from; to discharge of a load or cargo; to disburden; as, to unload a ship; to unload a beast.

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A popular kind of narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short sta…

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Alt. of Laical

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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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A pit.

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To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.

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Coming or observed once in an age or a century.

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of Set

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