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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 bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in th…

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To stretch' to extend; to distend.

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To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?

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of Mean

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Alt. of Significancy

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The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means.

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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A driving; a violent movement.

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Closely directed; strictly attentive; bent; -- said of the mind, thoughts, etc.; as, a mind intent on self-improvement.

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To set forth.

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That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure…

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Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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