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The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice, and by custom expressing an idea or ideas; a single component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable.
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A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym.
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Proof; evidence.
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The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositi…
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Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.
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A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be…
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One who classifies.
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Allied by blood; kindred by birth; specifically (Law), related on the mother's side.
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The act or process of converting metal into money.
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The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
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The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or…
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To engage in combat for; to strive for.
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Direct; proving directly; -- applied to reasoning, and opposed to elenchtic or refutative.
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The act of deliberating, or of weighing and examining the reasons for and against a choice or measure; careful consideration; mature reflection.
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Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivat…
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A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.
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Below the average size; very small; little.
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A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.
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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.
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A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear.
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The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
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Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, artic…
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A loanin.
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A word borrowed from another language.
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A word of one syllable.
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The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
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The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.
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The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of…
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A name.
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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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Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.
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A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
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A paronymous word.
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A word having an acute accent on the penultimate syllable.
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Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.
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A word of many syllables, or consisting of more syllables than three; -- words of less than four syllables being called monosyllables, dissyllables,…
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After death; as, post-mortem rigidity.
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Of or pertaining to the beginning or origin, or to early times; original; primordial; primeval; first; as, primitive innocence; the primitive church.
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A word which has the acute accent on the antepenult.
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The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
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Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
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Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.
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One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly t…
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That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.
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The doctrine of terms; a theory of terms or appellations; a treatise on terms.
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A word consisting of three syllables only; as, a-ven-ger.
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The act of ventilating, or the state of being ventilated; the art or process of replacing foul air by that which is pure, in any inclosed place, as a…
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A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning.
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A secret; a mystery; -- generally used in the plural.
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To conquer; to subdue.
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Exactly representing; exact.
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The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.
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Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, artic…
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Regular arrangement; any methodical or established succession or harmonious relation; method; system
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In general, a declaration, written or verbal, made by one person to another, which binds the person who makes it to do, or to forbear to do, a specif…
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Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow.
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To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the…
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The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.
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The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
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To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
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of Cast
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To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
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To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.
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To reduce to a forula; to formulate.
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To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…
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A pit.
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To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
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Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
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Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
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To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrume…
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An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a wor…
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A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.
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A discourse or composition on which a note or commentary is written; the original words of an author, in distinction from a paraphrase, annotation, o…
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Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
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A book.
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A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing c…
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To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attes…
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The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.
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To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
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The act or state of knowing; the exercise of the understanding.
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A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intellige…
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A word; an oral utterance.
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A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.
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A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as,…
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Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
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Account of what has taken place, and was not before known; news.
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A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person w…
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