To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
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To strike against; to attack; to assail.
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To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
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To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.
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To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
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Vexation; mortification.
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A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
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To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.
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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.
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To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.
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To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.
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The act of leaping on; onset; attack.
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To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseaso…
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To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.
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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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Old form of Since.
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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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To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
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To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
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Trouble; vexation; also, physical pain or smart of a sore, etc.
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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 provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- oft…
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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.
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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.
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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.
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To call out; to summon forth.
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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
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To bring forth young.
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To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
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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 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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To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
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To make sick; to disease.
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Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
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Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
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To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…
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To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…
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To be sensible of; to feel
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To make pale; to blanch.
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The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…
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To rage in excess of.
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A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.
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To offend the feelings or the conscience of (a person) by some action which is considered immoral or criminal; to bring shame, disgrace, or reproach…
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A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…
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Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
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To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
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To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
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of Wind
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To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…
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To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or…
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