To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
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To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
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To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
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To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.
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of Beset
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See Chivy, v. t.
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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.
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See 1st Frith.
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Jet, the mineral.
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Serving to gratify; agreeable.
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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…
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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.
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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…
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To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.
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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
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To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…
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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…
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A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
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An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.
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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.
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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
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To render null and void.
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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
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To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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