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Spurn
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Present
Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
Word
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
Execrate
To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
Open
Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Retire
To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
Brief
Briefly.
Cowpox
A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.
Communicating
of Communicate
Syphilis
The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary..
Mete
Meat.
Chime
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
Acquaint
Acquainted.
Familiarize
To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.
Inform
To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.
Denounce
To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Interlock
To unite, embrace, communicate with, or flow into, one another; to be connected in one system; to lock into one another; to interlace firmly.
Darn
To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
Uncrown
To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone.
Lobby
A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechambe..
Recipient
A receiver; the person or thing that receives; one to whom, or that to which, anything is given or communicated; specifically, the receiver of a still.
Advise
To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
Unfrock
To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.
Unchurch
To expel, or cause to separate, from a church; to excommunicate.
Perfuse
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess.
Oust
See Oast.
Disenthrone
To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
Disbar
To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
Verbalize
To convert into a verb; to verbify.
Sound
To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect.
Intercommunicate
To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.
Converge
To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
Enlighten
To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.
Unseat
To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
Interchange
The mutual exchange of commodities between two persons or countries; barter; commerce.
Electrify
To communicate electricity to; to charge with electricity; as, to electrify a jar.
Inoculable
Capable of being inoculated; capable of communicating disease, or of being communicated, by inoculation.
Communicator
One who communicates.
Convict
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
Teller
One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer.
Solemnize
To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.
Sea cock
In a steamship, a cock or valve close to the vessel's side, for closing a pipe which communicates with the sea.
Signify
To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be pre..
Vocalize
To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.
Pronounce
To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.
Tell
To give an account; to make report.
Notify
To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person.
Emit
To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.
Announce
To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
Donate
To give; to bestow; to present; as, to donate fifty thousand dollars to a college.
Abut
To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
Serve
To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.
Question
The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
Banish
To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power.
Adjoin
To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
Chin
The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.
Export
To carry away; to remove.
Contact
A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Snub
To sob with convulsions.
Come
of Come
Speak
To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak.
Declare
To make clear; to free from obscurity.
Liquidate
To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness); or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of (each indebtedn..
Blackball
A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
Excommunicate
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church.
Dole
grief; sorrow; lamentation.
Converse
To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.
Touchhole
The vent of a cannot or other firearm, by which fire is communicateed to the powder of the charge.
Censure
Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
Magnetize
To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle.
Enlightener
One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
Deport
To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
Relay
To lay again; to lay a second time; as, to relay a pavement.
Pour
Poor.
Incommunicable
Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others.
Proffer
To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
Theopneusty
Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.
Switch
A small, flexible twig or rod.
Adhere
To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.
Exclude
To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to ..
Blacklist
To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual ..
Extradite
To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive from justice. See Extradition.
Transfuse
To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.
Heap
A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.
Drive
To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke ..
Condemn
To pronounce to be wrong; to disapprove of; to censure.
Impartment
The act of imparting, or that which is imparted, communicated, or disclosed.
Transfer
To convey from one place or person another; to transport, remove, or cause to pass, to another place or person; as, to transfer the laws of one country to another; to transfer suspicion.
Offer
To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.
Discourse
The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning ..
Impartible
Capable of being imparted or communicated.
Neighbor
A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
Intimate
Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty.
Unsociable
Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person or temper.
Pronounce
To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with confidence.
Lavish
Expending or bestowing profusely; profuse; prodigal; as, lavish of money; lavish of praise.
Interchange
To put each in the place of the other; to give and take mutually; to exchange; to reciprocate; as, to interchange places; they interchanged friendly offices and services.
Sentence
Sense; meaning; significance.
Transpose
To change the place or order of; to substitute one for the other of; to exchange, in respect of position; as, to transpose letters, words, or propositions.
Allot
To distribute by lot.
Exile
Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separation from one's native country.
Spurn
To drive back or away, as with the foot; to kick.
Venom
Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and ..
Alkalize
To render alkaline; to communicate the properties of an alkali to.
Confer
To bring together for comparison; to compare.
Secretive
Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
Reply
To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
Damn
To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
Rusticate
To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.
Punish
To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten;..
Cohere
To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass.
Give
To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
Enunciate
To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
Share
The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.
Expatriate
To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
Displace
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 are all displaced.
Confound
To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.
Ostracize
To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
Administer
To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the state.
Doom
Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
Keep
To care; to desire.
Translate
To bear, carry, or remove, from one place to another; to transfer; as, to translate a tree.
Transmit
To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatc..
Impulse
The act of impelling, or driving onward with sudden force; impulsion; especially, force so communicated as to produced motion suddenly, or immediately.
Broadcast
A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
Cashier
One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company.
Dispense
To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
Gift
Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.
Traditional
Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional..
Proscribe
To doom to destruction; to put out of the protection of law; to outlaw; to exile; as, Sylla and Marius proscribed each other's adherents.
Bestow
To lay up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put.
Communicable
Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
Denounce
To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Yield
To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
Ban
A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
Merge
To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
Allow
To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
Tell
To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
Signal
A sign made for the purpose of giving notice to a person of some occurence, command, or danger; also, a sign, event, or watchword, which has been agreed upon as the occasion of concerted action...
Outlaw
A person excluded from the benefit of the law, or deprived of its protection.
Superannuate
To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity.
Relegate
To remove, usually to an inferior position; to consign; to transfer; specifically, to send into exile; to banish.
Afford
To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of f..
Denunciate
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly.
Purge
To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.
Utter
Outer.
Present
Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.
Observe
To take notice of by appropriate conduct; to conform one's action or practice to; to keep; to heed; to obey; to comply with; as, to observe rules or commands; to observe civility.
Make
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
Remove
To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
Curse
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
Open
Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door,..
Render
One who rends.
Snow
A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
Diffuse
To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse infor..
Communicative
Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.
Celebrate
To extol or honor in a solemn manner; as, to celebrate the name of the Most High.
Impart
To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth.
Shower
One who shows or exhibits.
Articulate
Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
Vouchsafe
To condescend to grant; to concede; to bestow.
Accord
Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.
Butt
Alt. of But
Express
Exactly representing; exact.
Consign
To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of ..
Chorus
A band of singers and dancers.
Advertise
To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.
Retire
To withdraw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively.
Overthrow
To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down.
Correspond
To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.
Depose
To lay down; to divest one's self of; to lay aside.
Polarize
To communicate polarity to.
Dethrone
To remove or drive from a throne; to depose; to divest of supreme authority and dignity.
Unsaddle
To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.
Vent
Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
Bust
A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast.
Voice
Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleas..
Whisper
To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or voca..
Grant
To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
Breathe
To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live.
Raise
To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.
Disclose
To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.
March
The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Touch
To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
Talk
To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.
Say
Saw.
Dismiss
To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
Divulge
To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which had been confided as a secret, or had bee..
Teach
To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or important; to exhibit impressively; as, to ..
Instruct
Arranged; furnished; provided.
Reveal
To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.
Issue
The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air from a bellows, of people from a house.
Get
Jet, the mineral.
Reach
To retch.
Suspend
To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone.
Import
To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to ..
Serve
To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired ..
Enlighten
To supply with light; to illuminate; as, the sun enlightens the earth.
Derive
To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into, on, upon.
Clinch
To hold firmly; to hold fast by grasping or embracing tightly.
Transplant
To remove, and plant in another place; as, to transplant trees.
Knit
of Knit
Deliver
To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to ..
Disseminate
To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and errors are disseminated when they are spread ..
Apprise
To give notice, verbal or written; to inform; -- followed by of; as, we will apprise the general of an intended attack; he apprised the commander of what he had done.
Mention
A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.
Brief
Short in duration.
Report
To refer.
Meet
To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and ..
Inform
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
Connect
To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between.
Assign
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
Communicate
To share in common; to participate in.
Slip
To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
Convey
To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
Promote
To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to prom..
Relate
To bring back; to restore.
Carry
To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
Mean
To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
Answer
To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.
Verse
A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
Send
To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
Write
To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
Word
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; ..
Register
A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
Descent
The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Award
To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
Rain
Reign.
Esoteric
Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and..
Go
Gone.
Spread
of Spread
Tender
One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Deal
A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.
Cut
of Cut
Formulate
To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
Phrase
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, an adverbial phrase.
Line
Flax; linen.
Extend
To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.
Transport
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
Approach
To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
Lip
One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure the..
Pass
To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motio..
Unite
To put together so as to make one; to join, as two or more constituents, to form a whole; to combine; to connect; to join; to cause to adhere; as, to unite bricks by mortar; to unite iron bars b..
Join
To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.
Sound
The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
Embrace
To fasten on, as armor.
Chime
See Chine, n., 3.
Border
The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink.
Blast
A violent gust of wind.
Verge
A rod or staff, carried as an emblem of authority; as, the verge, carried before a dean.
Expel
To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.
Break
To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or coal; to break a lock.