Stigma: alternatives and connections

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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A small lake. See Mere.

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The nostril, or one of the nostrils, of whales, porpoises, and allied animals.

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A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emb…

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That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

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A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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