Rag: alternatives and connections

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

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An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place…

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To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as,…

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A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent…

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To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.

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of Beset

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A bugbear; anything which terrifies.

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To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

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The glumes or husks of grains and grasses separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing, etc.

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To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.

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To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.

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See 1st Frith.

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Jet, the mineral.

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To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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A gear; a tackle.

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Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful.

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A young goat.

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To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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To chide; to reprove.

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To impose excessive burdens upon; to overload; hence, to treat with unjust rigor or with cruelty.

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To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to…

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To trouble; to disturb; to annoy; to harass with petty vexations.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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Derision; ridicule; mockery; derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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To mock; to ridicule.

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of Beset

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

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To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…

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A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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A week; a period of seven days.

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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.

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To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public prin…

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A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wo…

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation.

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The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

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The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.

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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 rate or chide vehemently; to scold.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.

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A husk; a pod; as, a peascod.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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A mound or small hill.

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

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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To render null and void.

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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

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To beat severely.

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The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…

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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.

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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.

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To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to sco…

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In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.

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Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

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To tease or torment by presenting some good to the view and exciting desire, but continually frustrating the expectations by keeping that good out of…

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One who makes tatting.

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Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts.

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To comb or card, as wool or flax.

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An engine for casting stones.

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To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.

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To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted…

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

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