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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To strike or cast down; to overthrow.

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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

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The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed.

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Difficulty.

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The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

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To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle…

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To inclose; to infold.

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To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainment of; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try; to attempt.

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The act of exerting, or putting into motion or action; the active exercise of any power or faculty; an effort, esp. a laborious or perceptible effort…

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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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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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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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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of Mean

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The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a…

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State or quality of being nervous.

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A pustule; a pimple.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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of Sweat

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To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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Serious emotional harm caused by a distressing event.

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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port.

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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…

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To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.

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The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the faeces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the…

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To strain one's self to excess.

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Same as Arrack.

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A well-known cereal grass (Oryza sativa) and its seed. This plant is extensively cultivated in warm climates, and the grain forms a large portion of…

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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire s…

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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.

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A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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To separate chaff from grain.

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A round dance.

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A driving; a violent movement.

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A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.

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A gliding effect; gliding.

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The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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See Leading motive, under Leading, a.

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A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.

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To strain one's self to excess.

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One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

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Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor.

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A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

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A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.

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Distress.

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The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the m…

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A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

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A slight flourish on a trumpet; a fanfare.

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Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quali…

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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

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To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

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To retch.

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To retch.

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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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One who strains.

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One who strains.

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Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a…

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Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a…

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To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

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To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the m…

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The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the m…

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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as,…

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Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.

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Distorted; misshapen.

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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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To filter; to defecate; as liquid, by straining or percolation.

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Flax; linen.

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A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

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A striving; an effort; a conatus.

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Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former.

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A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thic…

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To retch.

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A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow…

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To separate with a sieve, as the fine part of a substance from the coarse; as, to sift meal or flour; to sift powder; to sift sand or lime.

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That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.

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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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of Strain

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Distress.

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To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.

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of Strive

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A state of holding on in a continuous course; manner of continuity; constant mode; general tendency; course; career.

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One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modi…

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To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out; as, to try out the wild corn from th…

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A sound; a note; a tone.

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Varying in from, character, or the like; variable; different; diverse.

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