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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

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Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

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Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable.

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Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.

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Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.

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Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

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Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

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According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal;…

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According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal;…

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Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

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Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

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Stinging; able to sting.

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Stinging; able to sting.

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More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.

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Not generous; illiberal; ignoble; unkind; dishonorable.

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To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.

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That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

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To tie or bind together.

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To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation betwee…

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To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.

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Designated; appointed; chosen.

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To determine the future condition or application of; to set apart by design for a future use or purpose; to fix, as by destiny or by an authoritative…

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Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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To stretch' to extend; to distend.

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A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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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 make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.

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To bring back; to restore.

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To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

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To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

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To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

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To turn the mind or attention; to refer; to take heed or notice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said.

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To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.

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To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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Jet, the mineral.

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To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in th…

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A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.

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The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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To set forth.

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Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

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That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…

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To carry or send back.

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To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.

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To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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A spelk, or splinter.

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To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.

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To represent by an image, form, model, or resemblance.

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The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

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Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

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Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

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The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

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The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

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That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

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Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.

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Bastardlike; baseborn; spurious; corrupt.

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In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible.

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That which is entailed.

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Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man,…

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Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope.

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Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent.

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To infold or involve; to wrap up.

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To stretch' to extend; to distend.

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Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.

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of Rip

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To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to exp…

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Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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of Tie

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