Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.
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Bade.
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Bade.
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Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.
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Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions.
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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.
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Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.
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To lament; to bewail; to complain.
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To lament; to bewail; to complain.
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Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
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Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
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Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
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Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
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The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
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The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
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The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity.
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The state or quality of being inclement; want of clemency; want of mildness of temper; unmercifulness; severity.
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The quality or state of being severe.
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The quality or state of being severe.
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Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
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Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
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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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Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
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Not easily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to so…
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Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile.
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Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
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Stiff; rigid.
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The black tern.
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Adapted or likely to excite terror, awe, or dread; dreadful; formidable.
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Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
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