Skirt: alternatives and connections

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

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To empty.

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The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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of Bind

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A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

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A young person of either sex; a child.

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To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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See Misy.

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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

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An inclosed place.

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To inclose. See Inclose.

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An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but mor…

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A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

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A griddle.

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To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…

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A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

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A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

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p. p. from Kill.

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An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.

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A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago.

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Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

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The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.

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A petticoat, esp. an under petticoat; hence, a cant term for a woman.

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The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.

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A ring; a ringlike part or space.

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Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

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The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.

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To sprout, as seed in the ground; to vegetate.

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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.

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A mistress of a family, who is a lady; a woman in authority; especially, a lady.

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To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.

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A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.

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A pet; a darling.

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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…

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To surround; to encompass; to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop.

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To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…

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A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

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A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrub…

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To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.

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To cause to sound, especially by striking, as a metallic body; as, to ring a bell.

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To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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A young woman; a girl; a maiden.

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