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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…
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To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
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A covering for the head
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
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A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…
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To predominate over; to rule; to govern.
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The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…
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A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
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The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
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To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.
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The forehead or brow, the part of the face above the eyes; sometimes, also, the whole face.
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
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The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
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Flax; linen.
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To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.
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To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…
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Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
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To make and occupy a nest; to nest.
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Rising, as the sun.
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To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant.
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To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to…
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To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above.
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To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often…
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To appoint.
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To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
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To date anticipation; to affix to (a document) an earlier than the actual date; to antedate; as, a predated deed or letter.
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Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
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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 lean; to recline; to repose.
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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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To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
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A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…
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To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
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To spread and stretch the body or limbs carelessly in a horizontal position; to lie with the limbs stretched out ungracefully.
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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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See Sunn.
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A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…
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To lie under; to rest beneath; to be situated under; as, a stratum of clay underlies the surface gravel.
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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
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To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
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Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
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The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
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To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
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To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
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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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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 arrest.
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The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.
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A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
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Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim.
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A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…
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See Tael.
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Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie.
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A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.
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A person who knowingly utters falsehood; one who lies.
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The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
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The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
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To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist…
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To delay; to linger.
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The act of prevaricating, shuffling, or quibbling, to evade the truth or the disclosure of truth; a deviation from the truth and fair dealing.
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To arrest.
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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…
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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…
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obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
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obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
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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 be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
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