That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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To bend; as, to flex the arm.
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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.
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To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…
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of Incline
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To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…
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A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…
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A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting w…
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A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.
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An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…
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To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing; as, a hawk swoops a chicken.
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To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear.
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To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
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A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower;…
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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
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One who stoops.
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One who stoops.
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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…
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To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
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To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
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To bend down; to stoop low; to lie close to the ground with the logs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear.
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A flagon; a vessel or measure for liquids.
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