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To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

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To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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To engage in combat for; to strive for.

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To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

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A pet; a darling.

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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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The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.

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To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…

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The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

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That which fends off attack or danger; a defense; a protection; a cover; security; shield.

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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…

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To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.

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The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or a mantle.

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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

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To talk; to speak; to prattle.

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To talk; to speak; to prattle.

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A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.

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A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.

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The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?

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The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?

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A small wooden vessel made of staves and hoops, like a tub.

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To clamor; to contest noisily.

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To raise captious and frivolous objections; to find fault without good reason.

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To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.

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To do a petty business as a lawyer; also, to do law business in a petty or tricky way.

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The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?

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To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

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