To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion.
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.
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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…
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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
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To stuff; to lard; to farce.
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Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injure…
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Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.
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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…
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Any damage or violation of, the person, character, feelings, rights, property, or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong,…
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To strike against; to attack; to assail.
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The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
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Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.
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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.
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A ridge.
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To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
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Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
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To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.
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To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
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Thrist.
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Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.
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A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…
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That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
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A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine.
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To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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One who, or that which, stings.
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One who, or that which, stings.
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To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a cru…
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A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery.
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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Against the affirmative side; in opposition; on the negative side; -- The antithesis of pro, and usually in connection with it. See Pro.
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A freak; a trick; a lie.
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To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowd rudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.
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A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
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That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.
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To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
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