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A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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To make choice of; to select; to take by way of preference from two or more objects offered; to elect; as, to choose the least of two evils.

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To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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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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of Eat

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A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.

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To call out; to summon forth.

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A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

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To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills,…

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To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

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The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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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 draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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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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The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mi…

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Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choic…

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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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Taken.

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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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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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Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting,…

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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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Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

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of Ballot

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of Cast

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The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.

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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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The act of choosing; choice; selection.

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The act of excerpting or selecting.

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A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and e…

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something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites"

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An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.

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The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or…

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A pointed instument for clearing the teeth of substances lodged between them.

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The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.

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An ardent wish or desire; a vow; a prayer.

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of Vote

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Away.

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of Will

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Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.

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An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitis…

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A tang. See Tang a state.

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One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.

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One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector.

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The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.

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One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.

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To pull; to draw.

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To pull; to draw.

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Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choic…

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Taken from a number by preferance; picked out as more valuable or exellent than others; of special value or exellence; nicely chosen; selected; choic…

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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 frame or grating of various kinds; as, a frame for drying bricks, fish, or cheese; a rack for feeding cattle; a grating in a mill race, etc.

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A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made…

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The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

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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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The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is…

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To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.

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Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in prefe…

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Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from w…

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To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

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The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing,…

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To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.

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The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.

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The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

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Alt. of Pickaxe

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A pick with a point at one end, a transverse edge or blade at the other, and a handle inserted at the middle; a hammer with a flattened end for drivi…

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of Pick

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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.

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To pull; to draw.

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The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.

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imp. & p. p. of Wave.

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The threads that cross the warp in a woven fabric; the weft; the filling; the thread usually carried by the shuttle in weaving.

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