Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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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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Affectation.
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The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
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To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
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To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…
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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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To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
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To comprehend; to include.
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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
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To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
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Mixed; confounded.
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To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
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To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to…
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To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
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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 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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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…
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To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
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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…
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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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The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; espe…
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Alt. of Pretence
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To present again or anew; to present by means of something standing in the place of; to exhibit the counterpart or image of; to typify.
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The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what…
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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).
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To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.
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To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose.
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A round vessel or cask, of greater length than breadth, and bulging in the middle, made of staves bound with hoops, and having flat ends or heads.
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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 hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.
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A vessel for drawing up water from a well, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids.
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Alt. of But
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To strike; to slap; to strike, or strike together, with a quick motion, so, as to make a sharp noise; as, to clap one's hands; a clapping of wings.
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The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
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The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
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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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To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…
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To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich al…
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To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
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A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…
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To inclose. See Inclose.
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To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hide securely; to conceal.
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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
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Fixed; solidified.
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Alt. of Imbricated
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To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…
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To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…
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To set in a seat; to give a place to; establish (one) in a place.
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To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book.
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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 place in juxtaposition.
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A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
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of Lie, to recline.
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To conceal.
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A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.
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Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.
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An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
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Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station…
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To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
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To make and occupy a nest; to nest.
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To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.
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To render parallel.
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A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.
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Any fresh-water fish of the genus Perca and of several other allied genera of the family Percidae, as the common American or yellow perch (Perca flav…
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A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping of letters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a row of them to the compartm…
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A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.
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Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other soft material.
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A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…
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Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness.
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To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.
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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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To postpone.
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To place or set before; to prefix.
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Same as Arrack.
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To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
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A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
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To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
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To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
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To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.
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The act of repositing; a laying up.
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To arrest.
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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…
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The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
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A seat of any kind.
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To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
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Pay; reward.
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That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.
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A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower lev…
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obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
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Alt. of Situated
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To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; to lie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.
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To sew. See Sew.
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Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
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To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
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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 form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
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The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.
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To lay or impose on something else; as, a stratum of earth superimposed on another stratum.
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To lay upon, as one kind of rock on another.
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The mark aimed at in curling and in quoits.
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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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Thrist.
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To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like.
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To lay beneath; to put under.
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To end up; to set on end, as a cask.
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The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.
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Affectation.
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Affectation.
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Alt. of Impersonification
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Alt. of Impersonification
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The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
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The act or conduct of an impostor; deception practiced under a false or assumed character; fraud or imposition; cheating.
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The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
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The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
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One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
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One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…
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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…
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Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.
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Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.
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An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show.
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Affectation.
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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
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To bewilder or confuse someone
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Jet, the mineral.
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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
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To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
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of Lie, to recline.
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Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
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A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
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To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
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To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
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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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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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The position of the body; the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other, or for a particular purpose; espe…
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Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
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A pit.
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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…
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obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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