The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
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A small lake. See Mere.
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The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
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Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
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To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
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Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.
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The scaup duck.
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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…
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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.
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A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, w…
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To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.
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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.
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A stroke; a blow.
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To dash; to throw violently.
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A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, wi…
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A license of reprisals. See Marque.
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A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
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An evil spirit of the waters.
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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…
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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…
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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…
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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.
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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.
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A suffocating smoke.
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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.
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A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
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A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.
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The blue-winged snow goose.
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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
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To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or porti…
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To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
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To mar the figure of; to render less complete, perfect, or beautiful in appearance; to deface; to deform.
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A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, wi…
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To soil; to dirty; to spot; to tarnish; to stain; to darken; -- used literally and figuratively; as, to sully a sword; to sully a person's reputation.
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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
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The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.
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The act of deflouring; as, the defloration of a virgin.
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One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.
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One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.
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The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
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The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
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The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace.
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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
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Same as Deflour.
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To make worse; to diminish in quantity, value, excellence, or strength; to deteriorate; as, to impair health, character, the mind, value.
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The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
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Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
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To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exagger…
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