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adj. Fit to be dwelt in.
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n. Dweller.
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adj. According to usual practice.
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n. Customary relation or association.
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v. To make stale or trite by repetition.
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adj. Worn and gaunt in appearance.
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adj. Calm.
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adj. Of sound and vigorous health.
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n. Penmanship.
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n. A parasite.
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adj. Improvident.
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n. A tirade.
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v. To trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances.
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n. One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
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adj. Lacking pity or sympathy.
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n. Foolish daring.
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adj. Concordant in sound.
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n. Devastation.
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n. A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges.
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n. Risk.
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first adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
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foremost adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
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adj. Very depressing.
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adj. Irreligious.
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adj. Thoughtless.
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n. A young cow.
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adj. Odiously sinful.
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n. Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel.
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n. pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum.
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n. A servile assistant and subordinate.
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v. To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
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n. A figure having seven sides and seven angles.
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n. A group of seven governments.
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adj. Having the character of a herb
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n. A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study.
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adj. Feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals.
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adj. Passing naturally from parent to child.
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n. Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring.
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n. An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles.
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n. One who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy.
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n. Birthright.
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n. Protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position.
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n. A pausing to consider.
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adj. Vacillating.
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n. Vacillation.
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adj. At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion.
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n. Unlikeness of constituent parts.
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adj. Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds.
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adj. Deviating from the normal form or standard type.
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n. A figure with six angles.
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adj. Having six angles.
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adj. Having six feet.
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n. A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting.
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adj. Pertaining to winter.
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adj. Pertaining to Ireland, or its people.
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adj. Appalling.
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adj. Boisterously merry.
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n. A small hill or mound.
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v. To obstruct.
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adj. Farthest from the front.
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n. An obstacle.
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adj. Having a hairy covering.
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v. To gather and store away for the sake of accumulation.
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adj. Having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue.
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n. Reverential regard or worship.
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n. Congruity of the members or elements or parts.
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adj. Made up of similar parts or elements.
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adj. Identical in nature, make-up, or relation.
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n. A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
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n. A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
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n. A token fee or payment to a professional man for services.
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v. To deceive.
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n. A gathered multitude of human beings.
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n. A stocking.
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adj. Disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness.
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n. The practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness.
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n. Enmity.
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n. One who retails small wares.
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adj. Compassionate.
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n. A philanthropist.
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v. To make gentle or refined.
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n. Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead.
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v. To put to shame.
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n. A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
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v. To move with haste and promptness.
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adj. Cross-bred.
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n. The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules.
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adj. Involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion.
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n. The branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids.
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adj. Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam.
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n. The mechanics of fluids.
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n. An instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation.
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n. The branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids.
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adj. Watery.
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n. The branch of medical science that relates to improving health.
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adj. Faultfinding.
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n. An artificial trance-sleep.
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adj. Tending to produce sleep.
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n. An artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion.
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v. To produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions.
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n. Extreme insincerity.
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n. One who makes false professions of his views or beliefs.
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adj. Pertaining to the area under the skin.
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n. The side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
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n. A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion.
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n. A nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying.