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Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

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Expressing much in a few words; condensed; brief and compacted; -- used of style in writing or speaking.

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The act of abridging, or the state of being abridged; diminution; lessening; reduction or deprivation; as, an abridgment of pleasures or of expenses.

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Withdraw; separate.

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Proof; evidence.

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A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.

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a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily,…

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A brief compilation or composition, containing the principal heads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; an abridgment; an epitome; a c…

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The act or process of condensing or of being condensed; the state of being condensed.

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A general sketch or outline of a subject; a synopsis; an epitome.

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The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

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An inspection or overlooking.

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A concise or abridged statement or view; an abstract; a summary.

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A summing up; a condensed statement; an abridgment or brief recapitulation.

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An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a repres…

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The act of summing, or forming a sum, or total amount; also, an aggregate.

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To inspect, or take a view of; to view with attention, as from a high place; to overlook; as, to stand on a hill, and survey the surrounding country.

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A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syl…

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The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.

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Containing the substance or general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized.

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The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.

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Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

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