Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
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Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
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Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
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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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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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To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
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To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance.
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Dead.
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Having become worse than one's kind, or one's former state; having declined in worth; having lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base…
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To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.
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To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.
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To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
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To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
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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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of Eat
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To inclose; to infold.
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To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
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To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend mon…
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of Fee
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imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
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The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
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A kiln.
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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
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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 falling or tumbling down; fall.
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of Run
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To weigh or lay out; to dispose of; to part with; as, to spend money for clothing.
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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
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The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to…
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To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities.
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To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weak…
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Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed o…
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A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pa…
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A pointless or wasteful activity
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See Curd.
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The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
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Flowing out; as, effluent beams.
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Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges;…
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Matters to be excreted.
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The act of excreting.
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To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely; as, to exhaust the water of a well; the moisture of the earth is exhausted by evaporation.
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A wandering beyond proper limits; an excursion or sally from the usual way, course, or limit.
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Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
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Offal, as the bowels of an animal or fish; refuse animal or vegetable matter from a kitchen; hence, anything worthless, disgusting, or loathsome.
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A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms…
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The condition or quality of being impure in any sense; defilement; foulness; adulteration.
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The quality or state of being lavish.
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Extravagance in expenditure, particularly of money; excessive liberality; profusion; waste; -- opposed to frugality, economy, and parsimony.
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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
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Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.
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The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers
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The construction of a sewer or sewers.
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Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
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of Squander
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That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
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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 separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.
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To deprive of carbonic acid.
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To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring with twigs.
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To deoxidize.
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To desulphurate; to deprive of sulphur.
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To throw out of one's hand, as superfluous cards; to lay aside (a card or cards).
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To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
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To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored.
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A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach…
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To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink…
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A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing.
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To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
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To repair; to prepare; to put in order.
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To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc.
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The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
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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 compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool.
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A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter;…
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A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applie…
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A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; -- distinguished from gallowglass, and often used as a term of contempt.
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Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
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To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance.
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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis.
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To meet in the way.
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The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consis…
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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.
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The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; als…
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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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One who shows or exhibits.
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To affect with gangrene.
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A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display.
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A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
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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 free from the bridle; to set loose.
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To loose from a muzzle; to remove a muzzle from.
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Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive.
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The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
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The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
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The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.
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The act of making very lean.
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The act of making very lean.
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A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter;…
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A small quantity of batter, fried in boiling lard or in a frying pan. Fritters are of various kinds, named from the substance inclosed in the batter;…
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To scatter; to disperse.
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To scatter; to disperse.
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To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
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Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
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To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.
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Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house.
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To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate.
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The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
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To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh.
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To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade.
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To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to deter…
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To make lean; to cause to waste away.
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To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.
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Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages…
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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 undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving of…
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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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To scatter; to disperse.
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Wore.
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Living in a state of nature; inhabiting natural haunts, as the forest or open field; not familiar with, or not easily approached by, man; not tamed o…
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