To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
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The act of allotting; assignment.
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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…
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of Apportion
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The act of apportioning; a dividing into just proportions or shares; a division or shares; a division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just…
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Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or…
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The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
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To share in common; to participate in.
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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…
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To inclose; to infold.
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To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.
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Jet, the mineral.
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To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.
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To lap over; to lap.
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of Parcel
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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.
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A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising…
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The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement.
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The act of allotting; assignment.
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Approval; approbation.
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of Cut
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The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts a…
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grief; sorrow; lamentation.
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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…
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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…
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A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…
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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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A thin, broad piece cut off; as, a slice of bacon; a slice of cheese; a slice of bread.
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of Split
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A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support…
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Away.
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To kiss.
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To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with othe…
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A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for wat…
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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
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of Share
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To part asunder (a whole); to sever into two or more parts or pieces; to sunder; to separate into parts.
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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…
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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.
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Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.
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To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.
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Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or o…
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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.
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To divide and assign in just proportion; to divide and distribute proportionally; to portion out; to allot; as, to apportion undivided rights; to app…
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The act of contributing.
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A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
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A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.
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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…
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To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with othe…
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A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
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The share of a plow, or that part which cuts the slice of earth or sod at the bottom of the furrow.
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Alt. of Ploughshare
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That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
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