To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the influence of light; one of the parts of a plant which collectively constitute its foliage.
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…
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Jet, the mineral.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To observe; to examine with care.
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
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One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange;…
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In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the Eas…
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Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
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The organ formed by the combination or union into one body of stem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond of a fern or of a li…
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Green plants; verdure.
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A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.
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A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
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A footpath; a road.
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A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in Engl…
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One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically (Baseball), the player who delivers the ball to the batsman.
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An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
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The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…
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Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.
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Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
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Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
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Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
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Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
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A leaf of a book or manuscript.
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A leaf of a book or manuscript.
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Leaves, collectively; foliage.
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Leaves, collectively; foliage.
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A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
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A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract.
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Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form
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The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix.
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The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.
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To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
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A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
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Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.
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A leaf of a book or manuscript.
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Leaves, collectively; foliage.
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A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is…
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The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.
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