To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.
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Acquitted; set free; rid of.
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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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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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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
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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 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 bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
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To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
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To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
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To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
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To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
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To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
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To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
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Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
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Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.
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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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To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit;…
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain.
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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
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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 ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
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To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
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The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.
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To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
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To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.
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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
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Alt. of Pretenceless
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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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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…
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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.
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To take to or upon one's self; to take formally and demonstratively; sometimes, to appropriate or take unjustly.
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The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
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To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.
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One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
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To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
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To foretell.
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To predict; to tell before occurence; to prophesy; to foreshow.
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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…
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To tell or declare beforehand; to foretell; to prophesy; to presage; as, to predict misfortune; to predict the return of a comet.
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To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil.
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In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…
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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
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Feigned; pretended.
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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.
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Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
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A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
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A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
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Alt. of Pretenceless
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Alt. of Pretenceless
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Alt. of Pretence
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Alt. of Pretence
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The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.
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The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.
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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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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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To hide under a false semblance or seeming; to feign (something) not to be what it really is; to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask.
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To give a mental existence to, as to something not real or actual; to imagine; to invent; hence, to pretend; to form and relate as if true.
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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.
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A game of chance played with dice.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
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To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely.
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That which deceives expectation; any trick, fraud, or device that deludes and disappoint; a make-believe; delusion; imposture, humbug.
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An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.
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