Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
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Opposition; contrariety.
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Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individua…
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An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.
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An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity…
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An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.
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A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
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That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.
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Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.
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Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
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Piety.
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One who sews, or stitches.
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A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…
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A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.
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A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species…
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The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.
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That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
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A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence…
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The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determinin…
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That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
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That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such…
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That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
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The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.
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The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.
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