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To be before in doing; to do or take before another; to preclude or prevent by prior action.

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

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To wait for; to await.

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To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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A pit.

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A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

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To call to mind; to recall or bring to recollection, reflection, or consideration; to think; to consider; -- generally followed by a reflexive pronou…

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The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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To engage in continuous thought; to think.

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To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.

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To put together the constituent parts of (something) in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edifice.

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To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or giv…

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Evolved; unfolded.

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To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

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To form an opinion concerning, without knowledge or means of knowledge; to judge of at random; to conjecture.

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A game of chance played with dice.

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To look into or within; to view the inside of.

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To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery.

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To lay a claim to; to allege a title to; to claim.

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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

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To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.

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To trace back, as a line.

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Saw.

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A setting of the mind or thoughts upon a subject; hence, application of mind to books, arts, or science, or to any subject, for the purpose of acquir…

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To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

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To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.

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An undertaking of chance or danger; the risking of something upon an event which can not be foreseen with certainty; a hazard; a risk; a speculation.

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That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not w…

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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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The act of speculating.

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The act of speculating.

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Given to speculation; contemplative.

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Given to speculation; contemplative.

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One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.

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One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.

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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy.

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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To exhibit mental activity; to have the brain in action.

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An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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To look at on all sides or in all its bearings; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to stud…

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To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

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To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of pos…

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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.

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A thin, soft kind of muslin.

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A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

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To weigh.

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To bend back; to give a backwa/d turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface; as, a mirror reflects rays o…

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To chew the cud; to chew again what has been slightly chewed and swallowed.

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To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the real…

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To form a theory or theories; to form opinions solely by theory; to speculate.

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