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To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; t…

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To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

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To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.

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The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

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Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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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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Convenient sea room.

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A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

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The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

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A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

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A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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To drive tarred oakum into the seams between the planks of (a ship, boat, etc.), to prevent leaking. The calking is completed by smearing the seams w…

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An artificial channel filled with water and designed for navigation, or for irrigating land, etc.

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To convert into capital, or to use as capital.

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A caviling; a sophism.

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A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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Alt. of Causey

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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A strip of wood or iron fastened on transversely to something in order to give strength, prevent warping, hold position, etc.

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To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

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A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

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A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.

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Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedes…

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Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.

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See Crenelle.

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To furnish with crenelles.

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A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace han…

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That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.

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The fruit of the date palm; also, the date palm itself.

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A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

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To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic.

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The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge…

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To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide wi…

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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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See 1st Frith.

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Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.

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Open the dictionary entry to review the exact meaning.

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To fill up; to make full or complete.

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An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

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To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber,…

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or…

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To become glazed of glassy.

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To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.

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A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

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Hot.

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The line at the head or top of a page.

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A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…

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To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

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A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

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A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period.…

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A compound formed by the union of water with some other substance, generally forming a neutral body, as certain crystallized salts.

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That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

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To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain

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To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.

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To insert a leaf or leaves in; to bind with blank leaves inserted between the others; as, to interleave a book.

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The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or ju…

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A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt.

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An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…

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The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever.

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Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.

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The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.

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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; thin…

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To supply in excess.

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A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer.

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One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: (a) A husband or a wife. (b)…

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A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, esp. upon an old garment to cover a…

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One who provides gratification for the lust of others; a procurer; a pander.

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Poor.

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Same as Poor, the fish.

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To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get;…

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The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

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A low shoe with a thin sole.

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To furnish or provide, as with a convenience, provisions, or the like.

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A raftsman.

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An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women.

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Alt. of Railway

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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 prerogative of royalty.

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The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.

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In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full,…

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Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisi…

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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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To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, a…

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That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

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One who shows or exhibits.

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To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.

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To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

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A thin, narrow strip or bar of wood or metal; as, the slats of a window blind.

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To ask from with earnestness; to make petition to; to apply to for obtaining something; as, to solicit person for alms.

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A long piece of wood; a stick; the long handle of an instrument or weapon; a pole or srick, used for many purposes; as, a surveyor's staff; the staff…

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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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Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc.…

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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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Excess in eating and drinking.

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To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains a load; a rope sustains a weight.

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To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or…

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A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

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A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bi…

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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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A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.

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To lay beneath; to put under.

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Having always the same form, manner, or degree; not varying or variable; unchanging; consistent; equable; homogenous; as, the dress of the Asiatics h…

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To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, et…

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Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.

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The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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A structure or platform of timber, masonry, iron, earth, or other material, built on the shore of a harbor, river, canal, or the like, and usually ex…

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One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.

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To marry, as a man; to take a wife.

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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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To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords frui…

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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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Fixed; solidified.

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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for…

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To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the k…

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Prepared for what one is about to do or experience; equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or event; prepared for immediate movement o…

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To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…

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Furnished with stipules; as, a stipulate leaf.

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To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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To pledge; to hazard on the event of a contest; to stake; to bet, to lay; to wager; as, to wage a dollar.

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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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One who caters.

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One who caters.

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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of;…

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Foreseeing wants and making provision to supply them; prudent in preparing for future exigencies; cautious; economical; -- sometimes followed by of;…

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The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

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The act of providing, or making previous preparation.

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To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.

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A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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To bend.

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One who rends.

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To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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