Speculation: alternatives and connections

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.

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The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.

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To play or game for money or other stake.

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A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this s…

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The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject; meditation; musing; study.

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A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

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of Muse

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That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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The act of reflecting, or turning or sending back, or the state of being reflected.

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See Reflection.

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The act or process of ruminating, or chewing the cud; the habit of chewing the cud.

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A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

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Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.

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Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.

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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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

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

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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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To consider by turning a subject in the mind, and viewing it in its different aspects and relations; to meditate; to contemplate; to theorize; as, to…

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

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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 supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.

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The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.

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Surmise.

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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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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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