Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
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To wait; to pause; to delay.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…
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A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek.
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
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To throw or pull down; to raze; to destroy the fabric of; to pull to pieces; to ruin; as, to demolish an edifice, or a wall.
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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
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To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.
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To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent can hardly diso…
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To inclose. See Inclose.
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To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
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To surround; to shut in; to confine on all sides; to include; to shut up; to encompass; as, to inclose a fort or an army with troops; to inclose a to…
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To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.
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The act of taking or putting into the stomach; as, the ingestion of milk or other food.
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The place where water or air is taken into a pipe or conduit; -- opposed to outlet.
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To care; to desire.
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The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…
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As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
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Relating to the Oscines.
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To declare against; to reject or decline formally; to refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one; to disclaim; as, to renounce a title to land…
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To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject.
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To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress…
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To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…
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To be at rest in an erect position; to be fixed in an upright or firm position
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An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion tak…
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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 bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…
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Taken.
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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
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To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow.
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To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with;…
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To take into the hand; to take up; to help.
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Outer.
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To convert into a verb; to verbify.
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A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resem…
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Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught.
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The act of drawing or pulling
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To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
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A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
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To drink or imbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea.
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To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
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To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
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To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
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To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.
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A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
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The act or process of swallowing food; the power of swallowing.
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To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…
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Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.
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To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.
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To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.
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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…
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