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To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

One who misunderstands. Sir T. More.

Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

That which obtunds or blunts; especially, that which blunts sensibility.

of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers. Nebuchadnezzar plunders the temple of God. South.

The embezzlement of goods on shipboard. Wharton.

One who plunders or pillages.

e, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.

One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth.

One who refounds.

One who refunds.

ther English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football. Now we play rounders, and then we played prisoner's base. Bagehot.

See Sandress.

A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper. [Written also sanders-blue.]

One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

ng, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever; as, to sunder a rope; to sunder a limb; to sunder friends. It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain. Carew.

A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.

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The discharge of electricity; a thunderbolt. [Obs.] The revenging gods 'Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend. Shak.

An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher.