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, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
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That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
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That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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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 convert into acid or vinegar.
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To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.
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To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.
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To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.
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Being or succeeding by turns; one following the other in succession of time or place; by turns first one and then the other; hence, reciprocal.
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To make better; to improve; to meliorate.
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To go up; to ascend.
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External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.
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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…
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To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averte…
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To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
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Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak.
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To convert into a salifiable base.
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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…
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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
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To be agitated, or tumultuously moved, as a liquid by the generation and rising of bubbles of steam (or vapor), or of currents produced by heating it…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…
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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.
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To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.
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Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility;…
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A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.
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To convert (an animal or vegetable substance) into a residue of carbon by the action of fire or some corrosive agent; to char.
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To combine with carbon or a carbon compound; -- said esp. of a process for conferring a higher degree of illuminating power on combustible gases by m…
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To form flesh; to become like flesh.
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A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.
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To convert, or be converted, into cartilage.
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To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
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A salt of citric acid.
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Milk curdled so as to become thick.
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To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
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A concretion or coagulation; esp. a soft, slimy, coagulated mass, as of blood; a coagulum.
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To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.
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Coagulated.
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To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.
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Mineral coal charred, or depriver of its bitumen, sulphur, or other volatile matter by roasting in a kiln or oven, or by distillation, as in gas work…
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Burnt; consumed.
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To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an a…
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To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of li…
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Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in aestivation.
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To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.
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Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
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An instrument with a screw or a steel spiral for drawing corks from bottles.
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The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
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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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A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also…
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To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
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To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
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Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
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Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
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To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
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To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.
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To reduce from an inflated condition.
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To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.
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To deprive of, or free from, nitrogen.
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A stroke; a blow.
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To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the…
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To go out of the way; to turn aside from a course or a method; to stray or go astray; to err; to digress; to diverge; to vary.
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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.
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To release from that with which anything is engaged, engrossed, involved, or entangled; to extricate; to detach; to set free; to liberate; to clear;…
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A discus; a quoit.
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To separate into competent parts; to disorganize; to break up; hence, to bring to an end by separating the parts, sundering a relation, etc.; to term…
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To turn aside; to turn off from any course or intended application; to deflect; as, to divert a river from its channel; to divert commerce from its u…
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To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
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To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
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To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set fr…
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Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, r…
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To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reduce from an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules are in a very finely di…
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To clothe.
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To balance two scales, sides, or ends; to keep even with equal weight on each side; to keep in equipoise.
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To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
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To overthrow; to subvert.
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The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.
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He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
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To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.
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To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.
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The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…
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To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…
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To make false; to represent falsely.
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That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
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One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.
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A mixture of beer, spirit, etc., stirred and heated by a hot iron.
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To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive.
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To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
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A frieze.
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To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
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A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.
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Clothing in general.
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Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.
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To agree; to harmonize.
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Jet, the mineral.
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To growl; to snarl.
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Gone.
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Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
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Qualified or entitled.
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An implement of agriculture, usually formed of pieces of timber or metal crossing each other, and set with iron or wooden teeth. It is drawn over plo…
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A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire…
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To kindle or set on fire; as, to ignite paper or wood.
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To disprove or make void; to refute.
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Curved; bent; crooked.
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To notch; to jag; to cut into points like a row of teeth; as, to indent the edge of paper.
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To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.
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To form into one whole; to make entire; to complete; to renew; to restore; to perfect.
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To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly…
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A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…
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To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind…
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To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
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To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
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Having a nucleus; nucleated.
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Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over;…
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To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
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To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank.
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To turn or throw from a basis, foundation, or position; to overset; as, to overturn a carriage or a building.
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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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To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
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To interchange; to transfer reciprocally.
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A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
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A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
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Overhasty; rash; as, the king was too precipitate in declaring war.
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Somewhat prone; inclined; as, pronate trees.
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To favor; to render successful.
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Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.
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To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
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To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will,…
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To bring or lead back to any former place or condition.
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The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".
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To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
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To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the…
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Rising again.
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Restored to life.
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To turn back.
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To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
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To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
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To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
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The back, or top of the back; a crest.
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Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
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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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Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flatt…
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To convert from regular or monastic into secular; as, to secularize a priest or a monk.
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Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
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Worthless; bad.
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A slough; a run or wet place. See 2d Slough, 2.
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The wild service tree (Pyrus torminalis) of Europe; also, the rowan tree.
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Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
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Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
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To display; to spread.
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Suffocated; choked.
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To stray; to wander; to rope.
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A small, flexible twig or rod.
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A piece, as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
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A stain; a tache.
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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 make thick (in any sense of the word).
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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
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To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.
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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
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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 change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
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To change into a different shape; to transform.
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To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or proposi…
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To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.
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To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.
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To profane; to desecrate.
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To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
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To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.
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The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
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To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.
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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 make worse; to deteriorate; to impair.
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To gain, usually by one's own exertions; to get as one's own; as, to acquire a title, riches, knowledge, skill, good or bad habits.
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The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…
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The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
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To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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To make application for the removal of (a cause) from an inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injust…
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…
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See Color.
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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.
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Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
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The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or method, or an ima…
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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 alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolore…
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To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library ar…
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The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
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Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
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an inclination to approve; "that style is in favor this season"
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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
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Jet, the mineral.
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Gone.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…
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To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; a…
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To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
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Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriat…
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To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…
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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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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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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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To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
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The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance o…
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The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a dista…
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The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.
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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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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
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To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
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Taken.
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A vetch; a tare.
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To draw along; to trail; to drag.
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To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one count…
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To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
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To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, t…
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To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform.
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To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
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To labor; to travail.
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To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…
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of Wind
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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.
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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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A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
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The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.
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The act of turning aside, or state of being turned aside; a turning from a right line or proper course; a bending, esp. downward; deviation.
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See Deflection.
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The act of deviating; a wandering from the way; variation from the common way, from an established rule, etc.; departure, as from the right course or…
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The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
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A wandering about or going astray; digression.
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The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
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Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool
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The act of turning or whirling, as around a fixed center; a circular or spiral motion; motion about an axis; rotation; revolution.
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One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…
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of Leave
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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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To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.
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Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
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The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wh…
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Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
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The act of turning, as a wheel or a solid body on its axis, as distinguished from the progressive motion of a revolving round another body or a dista…
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A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
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To leap; to jump.
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of Start
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Alt. of Steem
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One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
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To stray; to wander; to rope.
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of Swerve
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A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…
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An artifice or stratagem; a cunning contrivance; a sly procedure, usually with a dishonest intent; as, a trick in trade.
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of Trump
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To touch lightly, or play with; to tweedle; to twirl; as, to twiddle one's thumbs; to twiddle a watch key.
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of Veer
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A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
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A spiral turn or wreath.
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To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
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Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.
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That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
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That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
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Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
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Intended to reverse; implying reversal.
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Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
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Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
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Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.
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Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.
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of Sour
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of Sour
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A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
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A bit of wood split off; a splinter.
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One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.
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One who turns; especially, one whose occupation is to form articles with a lathe.
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The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.
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The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.
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of Turn
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of Turn
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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To dig; to open (the ground) as with a spade.
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To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, o…
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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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That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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of Become
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To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…
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The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.
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As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round.
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A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
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To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
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That which causes fermentation, as yeast, barm, or fermenting beer.
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To bend; as, to flex the arm.
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Gone.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…
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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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See Plow.
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Alt. of Plough
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To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
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Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
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A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
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To whisper.
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A round of business, amusement, or pleasure, daily or frequently pursued; especially, a course of business or offical duties regularly or frequently…
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Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart.
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A spelk, or splinter.
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To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without lux…
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A tower.
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of Turn
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To contort; to writhe; to complicate; to crook spirally; to convolve.
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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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Trick; deceit; fraud; stratagem.
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