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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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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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To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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The quality or state of being angular; angularness.

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Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.

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A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

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A kind of pillar; a cylindrical or polygonal support for a roof, ceiling, statue, etc., somewhat ornamented, and usually composed of base, shaft, and…

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Hollowness; concavity.

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A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

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The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.

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Connection. See Connection.

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The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

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The state of being convex; convexity.

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The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

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The act of curving, or the state of being bent or curved; a curving or bending, normal or abnormal, as of a line or surface from a rectilinear direct…

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Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.

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The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or body.

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The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightn…

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The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

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To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

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A pattern whose structure repeats at different scales.

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A grating of thin parallel bars, similar to a gridiron.

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An instrument invented by Sir David Brewster, which contains loose fragments of colored glass, etc., and reflecting surfaces so arranged that changes…

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The quality or state of being keen.

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Flax; linen.

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A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.

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A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

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A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not suppor…

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Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.

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The quality or state of being rectilinear.

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The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.

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The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

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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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Having the constituent parts so compact, or so firmly adhering, as to resist the impression or penetration of other bodies; having a fixed form; hard…

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The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.

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One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.

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The act or process of laying in strata, or the state of being laid in the form of strata, or layers.

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The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in min…

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A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

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A figure bounded by three lines, and containing three angles.

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A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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To cut.

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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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A plane figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the ce…

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To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

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To make an idea or pattern become clear and definite.

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To cause to form crystals, or to assume the crystalline form.

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A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, c…

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To cut off; to separate.

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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

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Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in leng…

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A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

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To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.

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To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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Distorted; misshapen.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To form a circle about; to inclose within a circle or ring; to surround; as, to encircle one in the arms; the army encircled the city.

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imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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To reduce to an even surface or one approaching evenness; to make flat; to level; to make plane.

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An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curve…

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To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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A natural elevation of land, or a mass of earth rising above the common level of the surrounding land; an eminence less than a mountain.

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To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.

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To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.

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Undivided.

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One who, or that which, lays.

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In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles.

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A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmount…

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A single movement from one foot to the other in walking; a step.

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A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.

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To determine (something) beforehand.

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To form beforehand, or for special ends.

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A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.

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Alt. of Remould

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To shape again.

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The back, or top of the back; a crest.

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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…

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To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish.

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To whisper.

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Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of the genus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinidae. The shell is usually radially…

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See Scallop.

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The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, t…

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Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.

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To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

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The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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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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See Assuage.

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To form into a table or tables; to reduce to tables or synopses.

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A raised level space, shelf, or platform of earth, supported on one or more sides by a wall, a bank of tuft, or the like, whether designed for use or…

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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A knot; a fastening.

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Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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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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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.

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To set up; to put upright.

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To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatis…

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To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatis…

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human sha…

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Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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That which is perceived.

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The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discer…

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A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Sole.

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of Crook

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A variant of Strait, a.

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A variant of Strait, a.

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The art of dissecting, or artificially separating the different parts of any organized body, to discover their situation, structure, and economy; dis…

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To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.

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The act of conforming; the act of producing conformity.

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The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

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To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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The act of embodying; the state of being embodied.

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The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

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A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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A spot; a blemish; a mole.

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Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

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Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.

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To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

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The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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