A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.
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A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence.
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Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
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Deficiency in amount or quality; a falling short; lack; as, a deficit in taxes, revenue, etc.
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General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
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Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
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The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in wi…
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The quality or state of being stringent.
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The quality or condition of being tight.
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The lowest degree of desire; imperfect or incomplete volition.
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The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
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To grudge; to envy the possession of.
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A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
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To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
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To make a loud call or cry; to call or exclaim vehemently or earnestly; to shout; to vociferate; to proclaim; to pray; to implore.
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Malice; ill will; spite.
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The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…
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To long (for) with a keen appetite and uneasiness; to have a vehement desire; -- usually with for or after; as, to hanker after fruit; to hanker afte…
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A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
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An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
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To have an uneasy sensation in the skin, which inclines the person to scratch the part affected.
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Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the part…
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Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.
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Pleasure.
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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
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Sick.
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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.
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To die; to perish.
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A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excite…
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To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
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To pain; to grieve; to vex.
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To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…
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To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
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Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is.
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To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
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Trial, as a test or experiment.
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To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…
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The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.
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Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
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Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
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The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
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The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
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The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need.
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The act of requiring; demand; requisition.
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That which is required, or is necessary; something indispensable.
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To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.
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Sick.
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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…
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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…
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One who needs anything.
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One who needs anything.
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The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
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The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
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Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
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Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
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To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
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To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
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The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.
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The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
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To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
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Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
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The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
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The act of depriving, or taking away; hence, the depriving of rank or office; degradation in rank; deprivation.
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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
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To have a desire or yearning; to long; to hanker.
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