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To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights.

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To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or confine; to hold tightly; to constringe.

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.

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To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruc…

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To fix the limits of; to demarcate; to bound.

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To mark by bounds; to set the limits of; to separate; to discriminate.

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To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements…

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A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber,…

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One who halts or limps; a cripple.

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A large basket, usually with a cover, used for the packing and carrying of articles; as, a hamper of wine; a clothes hamper; an oyster hamper, which…

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To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.

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To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place.

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A fixed daily allowance of provisions assigned to a soldier in the army, or a sailor in the navy, for his subsistence.

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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.

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To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…

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Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; less than is wanted for the purpose; scanty; meager; not enough; as, a scant allowance of provisi…

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To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

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To make stiff; to make less pliant or flexible; as, to stiffen cloth with starch.

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To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as wi…

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A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, -- an interdict of religious origin and…

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A knot; a fastening.

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To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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to write or engrave around.

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To bend or curve

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To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.

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To care; to desire.

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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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

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That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

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That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit.

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To bend or curve

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To bend or curve

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of Bind

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To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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To bend or curve

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To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce.

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That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

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A kind of net for catching birds, fishes, or other prey.

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