To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.
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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, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.
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To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.
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To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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Gone.
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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
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To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.
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To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.
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A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.
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A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.
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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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To labor; to travail.
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To labor; to travail.
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To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
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To swallow up; to engulf; to overwhelm; to cause to disappear as if by swallowing up; to use up; to include.
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To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
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To go with or attend as a companion or associate; to keep company with; to go along with; -- followed by with or by; as, he accompanied his speech wi…
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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Acquitted; set free; rid of.
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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 or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
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To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.
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to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appellate court for review.
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To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.
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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
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In good part; kindly.
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Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
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Alt. of Analyser
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To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of…
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The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
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To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…
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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…
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To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
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To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
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To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…
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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…
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To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
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To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
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To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.
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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…
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Trial; attempt; essay.
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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
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To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
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To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.
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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…
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To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction fro…
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A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
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To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
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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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To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.
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To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
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A great wave or surge of the sea or other water, caused usually by violent wind.
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.
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Anything that hangs so as to play loosely, or with a short abrupt motion, as at the end of a string; a pendant; as, the bob at the end of a kite's ta…
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To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it…
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A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resem…
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To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
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To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
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To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
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Alt. of Breeze fly
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An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…
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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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To move off; to stir; to walk away.
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To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.
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An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign.
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A corner; angle; niche.
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A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts an…
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To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line;…
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A race course: the ground run over.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
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To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.
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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
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A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…
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To be placed in a center; to be central.
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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.
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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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The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.
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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 by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
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A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globul…
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A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…
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The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
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Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.
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To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.
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To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
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To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
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A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
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To force; to compel; to drive.
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A small fishing boat.
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To engage in continuous thought; to think.
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To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
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To have a beginning or origin; to originate; to start; to begin.
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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
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To urge; to persuade; to incite.
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To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…
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To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
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To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.
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A state of agreement; harmony; union.
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To run together; to meet.
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To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
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To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
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To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish; as, health is confirmed by exercise.
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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 cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe.
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
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To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
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A covering for the head.
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To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.
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A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
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To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract g…
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The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
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An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street a…
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also…
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To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.
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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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Created; composed; begotten.
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To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.
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To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to f…
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To push, to press, to shove.
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See Cruse, a small bottle.
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
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To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of mov…
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To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
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To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
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To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.
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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
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To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.
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To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
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To press down; to cause to sink; to let fall; to lower; as, to depress the muzzle of a gun; to depress the eyes.
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To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
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To cause to run off from the rails of a railroad, as a locomotive.
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To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall;…
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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
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To keep back or from; to withhold.
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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.
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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
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To uncover.
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To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate.
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To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in…
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To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of join…
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To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislo…
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To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
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To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusion…
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the a…
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Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
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To divide into separate parts; to cut in pieces; to separate and expose the parts of, as an animal or a plant, for examination and to show their stru…
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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
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To destroy the union of; to divide; to part; to sever; to disjoin; to sunder; to separate; as, to disunite particles of matter.
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To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or d…
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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
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A confection; a comfit; a drug.
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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.
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A driving; a violent movement.
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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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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…
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A pet; a darling.
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Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
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Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.
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Elevated; raised aloft.
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To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
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To inclose; to infold.
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To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…
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To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…
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To deposit in the grave; to bury.
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To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…
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To wander; to roam; to stray.
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An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.
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To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
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To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…
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To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
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The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; o…
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To thrust forth; to emit; to push out.
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He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
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To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
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To pluck up by the stem or root; to root out; to eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly; as, to extirpate weeds; to extirpate a tumo…
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To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence; to cease to be furnished in the usual or expect…
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
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To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat.
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Hasty; hurried.
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To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts.
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To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to…
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To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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Anything broad and limber that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved; as, the flap of a garment.
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To bend; as, to flex the arm.
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To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
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To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shr…
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To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
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A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
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To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
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Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, somet…
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A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…
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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 move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
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A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
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The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.
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To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
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To stuff; to lard; to farce.
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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
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To quit; to relinquish; to leave.
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To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.
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A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…
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To pass by; to leave. See 1st Forego.
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Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one's own impulses, desires, or inclination…
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An offensive smell; a stench.
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A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.
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To stop the mouth of, by thrusting sometimes in, so as to hinder speaking; hence, to silence by authority or by violence; not to allow freedom of spe…
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A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
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Jet, the mineral.
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The spirit; the soul of man.
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Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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The glede or kite.
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Gone.
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A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.
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To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist.
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To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward…
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To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend; to shelter; to shield from surprise or attack; t…
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The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.
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To suspend; to fasten to some elevated point without support from below; -- often used with up or out; as, to hang a coat on a hook; to hang up a sig…
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To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
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To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call.
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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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Haired.
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To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.
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To hasten; to go in haste; -- also often with the reciprocal pronoun.
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See Here, pron.
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To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a…
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It.
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To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
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To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
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In haste; foothot.
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To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
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To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on.
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To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
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To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
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Of no account; useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; silly; barren.
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To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
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To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.
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To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.
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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
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To lead in; to introduce.
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To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain
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Infected. Cf. Enfect.
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To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.
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Dyed with grain, or kermes.
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To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed.
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To stretch' to extend; to distend.
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A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.
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To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a t…
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To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.
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A turn. [Only in phrase.]
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To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
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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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To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.
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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 jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.
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The travel or work of a day.
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A kind of loose jacket for men.
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To care; to desire.
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A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag;…
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A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…
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To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
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of Lie, to recline.
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To be lazy or idle.
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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…
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To conceal.
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A basket.
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To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…
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To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.
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The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…
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To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
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A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
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A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a…
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To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
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A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
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To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…
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To part with unintentionally or unwillingly, as by accident, misfortune, negligence, penalty, forfeit, etc.; to be deprived of; as, to lose money fro…
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Compar. of Low, a.
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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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Luxated.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.
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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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To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
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A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…
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The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
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The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.
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To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated…
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A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
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To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
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To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
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Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.
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To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
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To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
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To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.
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To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
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To be dull and spiritless.
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One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.
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A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…
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Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to di…
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To bend or incline the upper part, with a quick motion; as, nodding plumes.
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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
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To let go; to leave unmentioned; not to insert or name; to drop.
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Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…
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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
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To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit.
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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.
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To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.
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To cross or pass over by flight.
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To leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore.
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To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to…
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To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
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To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
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A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.
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A part; a portion.
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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…
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Acting in common; participating.
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One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b)…
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
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To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in a bad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a fou…
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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.
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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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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…
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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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See Plow.
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Alt. of Plough
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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
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Hired to do what is wrong; suborned.
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One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels.
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To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
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Poor.
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Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of risi…
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See Practice.
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To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
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To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
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Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
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To assume or take beforehand; esp., to do or undertake without leave or authority previously obtained.
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To pass by; to omit; to disregard.
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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
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To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…
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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
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To follow or pursue with a view to reach, execute, or accomplish; to endeavor to obtain or complete; to carry on; to continue; as, to prosecute a sch…
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart.
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Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc.
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A low shoe with a thin sole.
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To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.
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A pustule; a pimple.
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A pit.
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One who puts or plates.
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To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
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To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
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Nimble; active.
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To raze.
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imp. & p. p. of Reave.
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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
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An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…
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To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ra…
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Violent or riotous behavior; a state of excitement, passion, or debauchery; as, to be on the rampage.
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To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
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To retch.
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To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
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Rennet. See 3d Reed.
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To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
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To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
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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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To give fresh life to; to reanimate; to revive; especially, to refresh after wearying toil or anxiety; to relieve; to cheer; to divert; to amuse; to…
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To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…
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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
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To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.
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To locate again.
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To put (one) in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of (a person).
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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
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To return.
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To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
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To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
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The act of repositing; a laying up.
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Active power or movement; spring.
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To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.
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To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
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To arrest.
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To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…
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Restricted.
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To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
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To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
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The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
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Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet.
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To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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Reverberant.
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To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
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To give in return, whether good or evil; -- commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
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imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
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To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
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A trough or sluice having cleats, grooves, or steps across the bottom for holding quicksilver and catching particles of gold when auriferous earth is…
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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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To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander.
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See Roc.
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To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…
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A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…
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To whisper.
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To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
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A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
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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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To make sad.
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An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water.
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To leap or dance.
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The herb sage, or salvia.
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To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
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To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.
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A roll of paper or parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list.
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To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
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Sick.
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A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down.
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To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…
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A seat of any kind.
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To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
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obs. p. p. of Shake.
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A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…
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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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Pay; reward.
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To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
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An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
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To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as, to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
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To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.
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Bad singing or poetry.
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To fall by, or as by, the force of gravity; to descend lower and lower; to decline gradually; to subside; as, a stone sinks in water; waves rise and…
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obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
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To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
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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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An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to…
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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
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To slide; to glide.
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Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
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A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
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To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the…
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
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To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
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A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder…
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Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
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To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.
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To assent to as true.
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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
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A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
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Same as Spurt.
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To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.
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To spatter; to splash.
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To display; to spread.
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of Spread
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To leap; to bound; to jump.
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To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.
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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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A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower;…
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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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To cease to flow; to be motionless; as, blood stagnates in the veins of an animal; hence, to become impure or foul by want of motion; as, air stagnat…
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The position of the king when he can not move without being placed on check and there is no other piece which can be moved.
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A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or…
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To leap; to jump.
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To move suddenly, or be excited, on feeling alarm; to start.
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The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture.
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A handle; a stale, or stele.
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The elastic, aeriform fluid into which water is converted when heated to the boiling points; water in the state of vapor.
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A vessel propelled by steam; a steamship or steamboat.
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To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…
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To excite as if with a goad; to excite, rouse, or animate, to action or more vigorous exertion by some pungent motive or by persuasion; as, to stimul…
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To change the place of in any manner; to move.
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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight o…
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To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way.
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To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
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A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…
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To trip in walking or in moving in any way with the legs; to strike the foot so as to fall, or to endanger a fall; to stagger because of a false step.
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To make to exist; to make real.
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To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds sum…
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To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush in by atmospheric pressur…
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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…
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To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.
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To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
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The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.
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To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe.
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To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.
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Any one of numerous species of large aquatic birds belonging to Cygnus, Olor, and allied genera of the subfamily Cygninae. They have a large and stro…
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To strike; -- with off.
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An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
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To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield; as, to sway the scepter.
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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 be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in…
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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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To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
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Taken.
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To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter.
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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.
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A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…
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The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.
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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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Thrist.
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The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
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The sound which follows a flash of lightning; the report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity.
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A knot; a fastening.
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A covering overhead; especially, a tent.
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To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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A plaything for children; a bawble.
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A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort.
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To hunt by the track; to track.
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A four-wheeled truck running on rails, and used in a mine, as for carrying coal or ore.
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A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.
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To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
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To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…
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To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
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To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.
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To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…
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To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
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To labor; to travail.
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To set the foot; to step.
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To move with light, quick steps; to walk or move lightly; to skip; to move the feet nimbly; -- sometimes followed by it. See It, 5.
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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.
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A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
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A round body; a little wheel.
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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…
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To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.
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To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.
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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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A twist; a convolution.
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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To pull with a sudden jerk; to pluck with a short, quick motion; to snatch; as, to twitch one by the sleeve; to twitch a thing out of another's hand;…
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Same as Undulated.
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To open, as what is rolled or convolved; as, to unroll cloth; to unroll a banner.
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To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
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To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
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To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
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To root up; to tear up by the roots, or as if by the roots; to remove utterly; to eradicate; to extirpate.
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To set up; to put upright.
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.
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Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
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To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…
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An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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of Vibrate
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To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
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One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
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To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
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To watch; to observe; to take notice.
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A waif; a castaway.
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To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…
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To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
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To heave; to be disturbed by nausea; -- said of the stomach.
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To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fi…
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To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…
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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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The act of watching; forbearance of sleep; vigil; wakeful, vigilant, or constantly observant attention; close observation; guard; preservative or pre…
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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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To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence,…
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A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising…
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To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
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p. p. of Wene.
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A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or na…
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To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, n…
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To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
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A game at cards; whist.
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To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a s…
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To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…
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To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.
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To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…
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One of the two anterior limbs of a bird, pterodactyl, or bat. They correspond to the arms of man, and are usually modified for flight, but in the cas…
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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…
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See Wabble.
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To solicit in love; to court.
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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…
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A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like.
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To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
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To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn.
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To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully.
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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; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring.
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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…
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To strike or hit suddenly, especially with a burst of energy
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Something that has short turns or angles.
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To move or travel very quickly
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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of Open
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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 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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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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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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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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of Shift
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of Shut
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
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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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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
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Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
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The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
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To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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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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To set forth.
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Self.
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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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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To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to var…
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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Gone.
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Gone.
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Capability of motion; contractility.
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Capability of motion; contractility.
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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…
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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…
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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 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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A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
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A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
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The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
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The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
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One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.
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One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption.
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Trial, as a test or experiment.
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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…
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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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The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
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The act of retiring or withdrawing one's self, especially from what is dangerous or disagreeable.
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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 put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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Gone.
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To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).
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To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.
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Capability of motion; contractility.
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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…
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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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To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
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A limit of time given for payment of an account for produce purchased, this limit varying with different goods. See Prompt-note.
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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
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A second location.
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of Run
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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To labor; to travail.
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