A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
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To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
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To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
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To reach above or beyond in any direction.
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To reach above or beyond in any direction.
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Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.
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A great noise; a hollow sound.
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A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.
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Created; composed; begotten.
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To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from…
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To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man…
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To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.
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It.
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The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
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To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
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To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
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A small shield.
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A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
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To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
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To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
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Taken.
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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…
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A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
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Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cl…
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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
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The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
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The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…
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To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.
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The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from w…
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Crooked; bent.
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To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
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To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
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To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.
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A professional rider of horses in races.
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To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
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A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
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The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…
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To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
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To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.
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To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.
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To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
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To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.
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To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; t…
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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…
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A bag; a pouch.
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To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
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A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
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A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…
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The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
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Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
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To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
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To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
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A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
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To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
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Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.
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Remedy; relief; amends; reparation; hence, one who brings relief.
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A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter U, nailed to a horse's hoof.
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A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.
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The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
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A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, a…
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The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
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The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
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The skull.
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The shell of any marine mollusk.
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A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not exten…
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Applied as an appellation to a kind of shell invented by Gen. H. Shrapnel of the British army.
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A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.
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Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.
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Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.
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To inclose as in a case. See Incase.
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To inclose as in a case. See Incase.
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One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
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One who, or that which, shells; as, an oyster sheller; a corn sheller.
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To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…
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One of the Arthropoda.
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The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or album…
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Same as Mollusk.
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One of the Mollusca.
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Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell, either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, or crustaceous, as in lo…
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The turtledove.
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The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
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The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.
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A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
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A violent gust of wind.
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The thick shell or shield which covers the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
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A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.
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The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.
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The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears…
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A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel…
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The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…
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A broad piece of defensive armor, carried on the arm, -- formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. See Buckler.
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To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
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To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
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