To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
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Distorted; misshapen.
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To make false; to represent falsely.
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To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
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To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.
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To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.
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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
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To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.
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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
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To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
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A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…
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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 to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
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To make the noise of the cuckoo.
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One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
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To make false; to represent falsely.
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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.
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To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate…
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