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To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping; as, to cry one's self to sleep.

Cipher; something written in cipher. "Decipherers of cryptograph." J. Earle.

st is ended. -- To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (some one or something).

eding player to speak; any word or words which serve to remind a player to speak or to do something; a catchword. When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer. Shak.

To set free from (something injurious or blameworthy), as from a bad habit. I never knew any man cured of inattention. Swift.

smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats.

er. He has got at last the character of a good customer; by this means he gets credit for something considerable, and then never pays for it. Goldsmith.

Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or

and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. Burke.

Something of exquisite taste; a dainty. [Obs.] -- a.

To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet. And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume. Sir W. Scott.

throw in or on in a rapid, careless manner; to mix, reduce, or adulterate, by throwing in something of an inferior quality; to overspread partially; to bespatter; to touch here and there; as, to dash wine with water; to dash paint upon a picture. I take care to dash the character with such particular circumstance as ma…

Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the plural. Any writer, therefore, who . . . furnishes us with data sufficient to determine the time in which he wrote. Priestley.

Something consisting of ten parts. W. Watson.

That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley.

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies.

Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied either to natural or moral qualities; as, a defective limb; defective timber; a defective copy or account; a defective character; defective rules.

Dissuasion; advice against something. [R.]

Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: .

That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table. The merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. Rev. xviii. 3.