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 speak.
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Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
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To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
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To strip the bark from; to peel.
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Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.
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To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
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To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
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A tattler; a telltale.
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A bubble.
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To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.
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To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
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The bittern.
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A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
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To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.
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To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.
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To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
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The side of the face below the eye.
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To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
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To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
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To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
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To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.
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A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.
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To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.
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To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…
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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…
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To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.
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To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
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The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.
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To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.
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To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.
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To make or become enthusiastic.
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To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
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To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
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To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.
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To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
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To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.
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A balky horse.
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A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
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To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
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A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation;…
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To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a…
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To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
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To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.
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To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter.
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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
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The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the p…
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A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…
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A mesh.
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To beg.
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To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
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To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
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To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicat…
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A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.
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To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to gro…
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Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.
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To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
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To make love to women; to play the male flirt.
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Nonsense or trivial talk
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The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.
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To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
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To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
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Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
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To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
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To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…
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To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation…
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A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.
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To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
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imp. of Rive.
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Rennet. See 3d Reed.
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A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…
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Saw.
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To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
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To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.
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To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…
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To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.
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imp. of Sling. Slung.
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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
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To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.
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To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.
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To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
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To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
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To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.
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To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
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To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
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To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.
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Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…
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To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
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Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.
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Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
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A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
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To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
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To convert into a verb; to verbify.
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To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.
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A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.
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To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, n…
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To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibratio…
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To share in common; to participate in.
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Exactly representing; exact.
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To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.
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The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
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Outer.
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One who speaks.
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One who speaks.
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of Speak
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of Speak
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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
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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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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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Given to much talking.
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Given to much talking.
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of Talk
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of Talk
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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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To aim; to direct.
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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 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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