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A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, ph…

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A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable o…

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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 mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

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Mixed; confounded.

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To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to stud…

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To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

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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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Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

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To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

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A thin, soft kind of muslin.

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A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

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To weigh.

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A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a q…

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To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

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To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

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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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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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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 flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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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 part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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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 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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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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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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One who teases or vexes.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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