Vex: alternatives and connections

To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract.

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of Beat

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of Beset

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See Chivy, v. t.

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To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.

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of Eat

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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…

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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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See 1st Frith.

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Jet, the mineral.

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Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens o…

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To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.

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To give or grant amiss.

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To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.

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A small horse; a pony; hence, any horse.

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That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.

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A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and…

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To become, or be, rank; to grow rank or strong; to be inflamed; to fester; -- used literally and figuratively.

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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

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To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

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The part of a tree or plant remaining in the earth after the stem or trunk is cut off; the stub.

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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 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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A noxious or corroding care; solicitude; worry.

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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 engage in combat for; to strive for.

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Weighing facts and arguments with a view to a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in det…

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Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

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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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To make not pleased; to excite a feeling of disapprobation or dislike in; to be disagreeable to; to offend; to vex; -- often followed by with or at.…

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Deprived of quiet; impatient; restless; uneasy.

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Separated; drawn asunder.

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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 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 disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.

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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

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To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.

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The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.

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The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble.

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The state of being bewildered.

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The state of being bewildered.

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The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

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The act of vexing, or the state of being vexed; agitation; disquiet; trouble; irritation.

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To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks.

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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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To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

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To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm.

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To urge; to persuade; to incite.

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The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.

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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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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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To render null and void.

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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 plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the…

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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 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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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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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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To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

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To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

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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 harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth.

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To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.

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To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.

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