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One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.

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One who contests; an opponent; a litigant; a disputant; one who claims that which has been awarded to another.

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The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

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To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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One who is new in any business, profession, or calling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro.

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Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.

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Same as Tyro.

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A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.

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A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.

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To repair by fresh supplies, as anything wasted; to remedy lack or deficiency in; as, food recruits the flesh; fresh air and exercise recruit the spi…

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Something which creates or whets an appetite.

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A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also…

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One who dispatches.

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One who enters; a beginner.

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A young bird just fledged.

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novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university.

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A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Ch…

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One who has lately come.

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