A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
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That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
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A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
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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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The act of depressing.
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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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Upright, or having a vertical position; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect.
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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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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
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To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
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To thrust; to stab; to punch. See Job, v. t.
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To bring forth young.
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To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.
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The male member, or organ of generation.
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The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.
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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.
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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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The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.
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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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Early; soon.
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To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to sta…
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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 feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
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To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
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A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
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A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
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A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
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Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.
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A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
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A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
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Prickly.
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Prickly.
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One who, or that which, stings.
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One who, or that which, stings.
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A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
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To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…
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The male of birds, particularly of gallinaceous or domestic fowls.
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A stroke; a blow.
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A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
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The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
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One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
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of Prick
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A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
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To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…
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The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
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3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.
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To soak.
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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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An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…
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To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
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A bastard; colloquially, a low, scurvy fellow; -- used generally in contempt, or in coarse humor. Also used adjectively.
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