Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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Mixed; confounded.
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Mixed; confounded.
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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
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A sudden and brief blast or gust; a light, temporary breeze; as, a flurry of wind.
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A bringing into action; movement.
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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
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Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
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To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.
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A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
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To share in common; to participate in.
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Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
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To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
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To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.
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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
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To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislo…
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To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…
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Exactly representing; exact.
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A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc., wh…
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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
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To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.
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To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.
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of Lie, to recline.
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A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
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The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.
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A spot; a blemish; a mole.
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The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…
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Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.
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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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The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…
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To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
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Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance.
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Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…
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To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.
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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
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To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.
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The act driving forward or away; the act or process of propelling; as, steam propulsion.
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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.
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A pit.
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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
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To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
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of Set
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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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Taken.
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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…
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To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.
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To set up; to put upright.
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Outer.
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To convert into a verb; to verbify.
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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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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…
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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.
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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
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A piece of heavy ordnance formerly used for throwing stones and other ponderous missiles. It was the earliest kind of cannon.
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of Cast
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To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.
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of Cut
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To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…
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To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen the effect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy in morals, in disciplin…
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To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.
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To turn away from the east, or (figuratively) from the right or the truth.
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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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To separate and come off in scales or laminae, as pieces of carious bone or of bark.
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To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.
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To whip lightly or with a quick jerk; to flap; as, to flick a horse; to flick the dirt from boots.
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To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
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A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
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To bewilder or confuse someone
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Jet, the mineral.
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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.
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of Grind
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To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
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To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
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To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle.
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The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.
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To play tricks by sleight of hand; to cause amusement and sport by tricks of skill; to conjure.
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A dull, heavy person.
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imp. of Melt.
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To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
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To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.
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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.
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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 small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.
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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
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Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…
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The back, or top of the back; a crest.
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A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…
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An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…
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Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
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To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; t…
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A basket. See Skep.
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To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
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Slow.
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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 make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.
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To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
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of Bowl
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of Cast
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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
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To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to fing a stone into the pond.
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A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
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To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land.
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To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
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To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…
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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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One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
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To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surfac…
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Easily frightened; timid; as, a shy bird.
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of Sling
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To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
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That which is lifted up; an elevation.
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That which is lifted up; an elevation.
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The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.
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The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened.
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To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment.
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To becloud and confuse, as with liquor.
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To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.
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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.
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of Cast
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To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
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Mixed; confounded.
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To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…
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A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
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A carnivorous animal of the genus Vulpes, family Canidae, of many species. The European fox (V. vulgaris or V. vulpes), the American red fox (V. fulv…
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To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
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To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…
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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 send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance.
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That which is lifted up; an elevation.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
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A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wo…
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Struck.
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A small, flexible twig or rod.
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Thrist.
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