To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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To increase; to augment.
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To increase; to augment.
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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
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To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…
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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…
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The act or process of acquiring.
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To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
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The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.
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The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land.
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To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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To share in common; to participate in.
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To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
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Created; composed; begotten.
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To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…
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Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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Gone.
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A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
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That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical…
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An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…
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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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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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To appear again.
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To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.
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To carry or send back.
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To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem.
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The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
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To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
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To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
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The act of responding.
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Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
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of Run
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of Run
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To let down; to lower.
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Taken.
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To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
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To labor; to travail.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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of Turn
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The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than t…
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A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
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To cut by striking repeatedly with a sharp instrument; to cut into pieces; to mince; -- often with up.
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A flatterer or sycophant.
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Trim; neat.
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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…
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All that part of a horse which is before the rider.
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Jet, the mineral.
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One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to…
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A dull, heavy person.
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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…
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Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
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The act of paying, or giving compensation; the discharge of a debt or an obligation.
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The act of reciprocating; interchange of acts; a mutual giving and returning; as, the reciprocation of kindnesses.
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A second or new entry; as, a reentry into public life.
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To recommit; to send back.
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Restoration to one's country.
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The act of requiting; also, that which requites; return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense; as, the requital…
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The act of retaliating, or of returning like for like; retribution; now, specifically, the return of evil for evil; e.g., an eye for an eye, a tooth…
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To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the w…
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The act of returning, or coming back; return.
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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
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A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms.
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A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to…
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To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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See Homelyn.
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A gliding, slipping, or gradual falling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to…
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That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
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To backslide; to fall again.
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To cover again.
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To recover health; to regain strength; to convalesce.
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To come back; to return again or repeatedly; to come again to mind.
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To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
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The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
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To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse…
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To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
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To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
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To restore to a former state.
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To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
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To take from the grave; to disinter.
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To trace back, as a line.
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Retrogression.
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To visit again.
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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…
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One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be draw…
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To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
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Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.
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Election a second time, or anew; as, the reelection of a former chief.
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To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
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To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
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An answer; a reply.
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An answer; a reply.
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To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
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To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
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The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
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The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation.
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A play in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racket or with the open hand.
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A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
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To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…
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To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
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A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
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To call back; to summon to return; as, to recall troops; to recall an ambassador.
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Alt. of Recurrency
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To elect again; as, to reelect the former governor.
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To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.
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The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
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To join again; to unite after separation.
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An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
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One who rends.
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To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
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An answer; a reply.
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The act of restoring anything to its rightful owner, or of making good, or of giving an equivalent for any loss, damage, or injury; indemnification.
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The act of restoring or bringing back to a former place, station, or condition; the fact of being restored; renewal; reestablishment; as, the restora…
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To bend or curve back; as, a retorted line.
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To turn back.
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To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
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Taken.
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To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…
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