Queer: alternatives and connections

Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Belonging to another country; foreign.

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Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

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Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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of Forbid

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To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

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To take beforehand, or in advance; to anticipate.

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.

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To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators.

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To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against.

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To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of…

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

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A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…

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A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact.

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To put to hazard; to bring into danger or peril; to expose to loss or injury; as, to endanger life or peace.

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To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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A knot or coarse part in cloth.

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A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a f…

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Enchantment; illusion.

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To tread under foot; to trample.

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Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect.

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Droll; comical; amusing; laughable.

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Excited with merriment; manifesting sportiveness or delight; inspiring delight; livery; merry.

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Not paired with another, or remaining over after a pairing; without a mate; unmatched; single; as, an odd shoe; an odd glove.

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A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diver…

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One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not…

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Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.

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The wife of a king.

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A kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from cane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of…

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Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.

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Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.

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An opening cut through the waterway and bulwarks of a ship, so that water falling on deck may flow overboard; -- called also scupper hole.

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Separate or apart from others; single; distinct.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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Situated or placed across something else; transverse; oblique.

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