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Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure…

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Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure…

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Bright; glittering; fiery.

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Bright; glittering; fiery.

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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder, or across the neck and shoulder.

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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Alt. of Manoeuvre

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Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

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To appoint.

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A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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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 rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.

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Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promis…

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Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.

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Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.

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Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

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

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of Cut

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Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.

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Straight down; perpendicularly.

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Composed of film or films.

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Pertaining to, or resembling, gauze; thin and slight as gauze.

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A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze o…

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In a perpendicular manner; vertically.

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To lament; to bewail; to complain.

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Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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of Slay

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A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.

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To stray; to wander; to rope.

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Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transp…

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To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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Having the form or nature of vapor.

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To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.

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