To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like.
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To deposit in the grave; to bury.
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To deposit in the grave; to bury.
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A variant of Eddish.
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A variant of Eddish.
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To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
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To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
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To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.
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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.
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To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
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To cut.
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One who challenges.
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To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
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The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for supe…
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One who seeks what another seeks, or claims what another claims; one who competes; a rival.
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To put together; to construct; to build.
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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
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One who contends; a contestant.
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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.
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To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
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To blot out; to erase; to expunge; to dele; to omit.
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The act of depressing.
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That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
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An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additiona…
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The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography.
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See Hoarding, 2.
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The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.
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To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.
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To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.
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To render null and void.
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A hurt; an injury.
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Flax; linen.
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A small lake. See Mere.
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A mesh.
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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…
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A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial trans…
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Sound of any kind.
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To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of…
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To protract; to prolong; to extend.
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To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
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A person having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.
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A writing; a written document.
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To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
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A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
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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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of Wind
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A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
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A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.
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The back part of the neck; the scruff.
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To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
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A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
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Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish.
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To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
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One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
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One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
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The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
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The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.
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The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
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The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
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of Expunge
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of Expunge
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To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.
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To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.
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Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
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Having the quality of incising, cutting, or penetrating, as with a sharp instrument; cutting; hence, sharp; acute; sarcastic; biting.
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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…
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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…
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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…
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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…
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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…
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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…
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Characterized by scratches.
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Characterized by scratches.
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A written or printed scroll or sheet of paper; a document; especially, a formal list or inventory; a list or catalogue annexed to a larger document,…
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The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.
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The whole collection or lot; caboodle.
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To spread.
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An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The caul…
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Incorrect or bad writing or spelling.
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To inclose or surround, as with a railing, or with latticework.
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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.
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A stroke; a blow.
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Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.
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To deposit in the grave; to bury.
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In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown…
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The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
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To blot out, as with pen; to rub out; to efface designedly; to obliterate; to strike out wholly; as, to expunge words, lines, or sentences.
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Affray; broil; contest; combat.
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See 1st Frith.
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Trubute, tax.
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To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for t…
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The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
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To write or engrave; to mark down as something to be read; to imprint.
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To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
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A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.
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A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactu…
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The act of plundering.
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Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
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A license of reprisals. See Marque.
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Alt. of Moollah
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Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.
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That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…
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A mark in the skin or flesh of an animal, made by a wound or ulcer, and remaining after the wound or ulcer is healed; a cicatrix; a mark left by a pr…
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To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…
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of Scrape
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See Crawl.
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To card coarsely; to run through the scribbling machine.
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To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; a…
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3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.
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To leap; to jump.
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…
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A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certa…
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Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.
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