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To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the…

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The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation.

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The act of derogating, partly repealing, or lessening in value; disparagement; detraction; depreciation; -- followed by of, from, or to.

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Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation.

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A small lake. See Mere.

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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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To carry or send back.

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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Outer.

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To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…

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A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

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A spot; a stain; a daub.

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A knot; a fastening.

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To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render illegible or indisc…

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To erase or blot out; to efface; to render undecipherable, as a writing.

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.

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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

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To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

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To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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Not bright or distinct; wanting luminousness or clearness; obscure in luster or sound; dusky; darkish; obscure; indistinct; overcast; tarnished.

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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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To smear with something which stains, or makes dirty; to smutch; to begrime; to soil; to sully.

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A suffocating smoke.

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A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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