To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
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To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
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To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
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To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft.
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To reach above or beyond in any direction.
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To reach above or beyond in any direction.
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A large stick; a club; specifically, a piece of wood with one end thicker or broader than the other, used in playing baseball, cricket, etc.
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Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cl…
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A tree of several species, constituting the genus Betula; as, the white or common birch (B. alba) (also called silver birch and lady birch); the dwar…
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To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.
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An animal of various species of the genera Felis and Lynx. The domestic cat is Felis domestica. The European wild cat (Felis catus) is much larger th…
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To correct by punishment; to inflict pain upon the purpose of reclaiming; to discipline; as, to chasten a son with a rod.
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To inflict pain upon, by means of stripes, or in any other manner, for the purpose of punishment or reformation; to punish, as with stripes.
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An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
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The position in the game of chess when a king is in check and cannot be released, -- which ends the game.
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The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; tr…
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To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.
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Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…
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The hide of a cow.
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The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from w…
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To beat with a stick; to thrash; to cudgel.
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To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
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To whip; to scourge; to flog.
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A whip for horses.
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To make immovable; in surgery, to make immovable (a naturally mobile part, as a joint) by the use of splints, or stiffened bandages.
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A professional rider of horses in races.
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The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
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To draw or pass the tongue over; as, a dog licks his master's hand.
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A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
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The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…
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To chide; to reprove.
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To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
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To go beyond, or be superior to, on the flank; to pass around or turn the flank or flanks of.
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To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.
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To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
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To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.
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To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; t…
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A contagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming…
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To roar; to bellow; to snort; to snore loudly.
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A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
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A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip.
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A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to l…
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The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
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Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
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To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
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To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
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A small, flexible twig or rod.
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Alt. of Thresh
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A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
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To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
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Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in a physical or moral sense. See Worse.
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To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.
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To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man…
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To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something; to clash; as, one heavy body knocks against another.
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To go beyond in performance; to excel; to surpass.
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To go beyond; to exceed in swiftness; to surpass; to outdo.
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To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.
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To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
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To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
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A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
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A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging.
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The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
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The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
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The act of killing.
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The act of killing.
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To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
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To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
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One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
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One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping.
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To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…
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To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
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To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…
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To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.
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To beat severely.
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The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
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Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
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The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
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To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove;…
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To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
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Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
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To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to sco…
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A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.
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To cut by striking violently and at random; to cut in long slits.
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A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like; specifically, a strip of thick leather used in flogging.
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To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
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That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
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To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.
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