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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A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and having holes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust so as to be exposed in front of it.
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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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To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
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To hold forth or present to view; to produce publicly, for inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to disp…
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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.
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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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To make penal.
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To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; t…
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A violent gust of wind.
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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
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A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allow…
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Of or pertaining to the forest; remote from human abodes and cultivation; in a state of nature; wild; as, a savage wilderness.
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