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The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away.

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The act of adducing or bringing forward.

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To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancem…

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The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after…

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To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.

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of Approach

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of Ascend

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The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

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The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth.

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The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting…

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See Beak.

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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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of Bend

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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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of Bow

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To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

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A leading about; circumlocution.

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of Close

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The side of a thing.

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of Come

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Disturbed or violent motion; agitation.

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To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep.

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Same as Courtesy, an act of respect.

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A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.

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The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.

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See Deflection.

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The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced; a putting out of place.

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An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercis…

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Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

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The act of eversing; destruction.

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of Evert

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To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.

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To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.

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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

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imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.

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To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings.

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of Follow

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The act of gesticulating, or making gestures to express passion or enforce sentiments.

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Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

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The glede or kite.

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Celerity of motion; speed; swiftness; dispatch; expedition; -- applied only to voluntary beings, as men and other animals.

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A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial.

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To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.

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To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.

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of Hurry

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of Incline

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The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted.

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To cut into long slices or strips and dry in the sun; as, jerk beef. See Charqui.

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of Jerk

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To shake with short, abrupt risings and fallings, as a carriage moving on rough ground; as, the coach jolts.

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To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

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of Kick

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To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.

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of Kneel

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The act of moving from place to place.

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A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.

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To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

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Alt. of Manoeuvre

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Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

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The act of migrating.

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To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

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Obedience.

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of Open

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A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.

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The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man o…

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of Pass

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Same as Brownian movement, under Brownian.

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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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of Pitch

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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of Pose

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The act of going before, or forward.

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The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.

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A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

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The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.

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The act of prostrating, throwing down, or laying fiat; as, the prostration of the body.

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The act of pursuit.

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The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the…

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Nimble; active.

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of Quiver

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To retch.

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of Reach

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To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo.

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The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses.

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of Recline

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To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.

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The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.

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The act of retracting, or drawing back; the state of being retracted; as, the retraction of a cat's claws.

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The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

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To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a dista…

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A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.

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of Rush

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A sudden, violent check of a horse by drawing or twitching the reins on a sudden and with one pull.

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Sick.

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Quality of being shaky.

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of Shake

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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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of Shift

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To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.

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of Shut

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That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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of Sit

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To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

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The act of slipping; also, the amount of slipping.

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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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imp. & p. p. of Spin.

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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

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of Speed

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The angel fish (Squatina angelus).

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of Squat

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To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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To twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.

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of Stand

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To part the legs wide; to stand or to walk with the legs far apart.

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A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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Struck.

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To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sw…

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To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

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of Swing

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

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The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the transla…

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To labor; to travail.

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of Travel

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of Travel

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of Tremble

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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of Turn

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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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The act of undulating; a waving motion or vibration; as, the undulations of a fluid, of water, or of air; the undulations of sound.

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The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering.

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The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical strin…

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The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft.

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See Waive.

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To play or move to and fro; to move one way and the other; hence, to totter; to reel; to swing; to flutter.

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of Wave

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To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.

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To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, th…

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See Wabble.

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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.

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To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.

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To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

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To applaud.

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To show approval of by clapping the hands, acclamation, or other significant sign.

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To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.

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To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.

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Alt. of Exserted

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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.

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To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.

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obs. p. p. of Shake.

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To draw up or contract (the shoulders), especially by way of expressing dislike, dread, doubt, or the like.

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That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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imp. of Spit.

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See Waive.

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To nod; to sleep; to nap.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To share in common; to participate in.

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of Happen

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To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals…

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The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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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 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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of Move

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of Move

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To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.

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Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

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Capability of motion; contractility.

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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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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an accelerat…

Rate of change of velocity.

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

An interaction that changes motion.

That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direc…

Resistance to a change in motion.

Energy an object has because it is moving.

Energy due to motion.

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

A measure of inertia.

The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.

Mass multiplied by velocity.

Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the ve…

Speed in a specified direction.

The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

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The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

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