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334 words match “TORE”

TRAITRESS n.
A woman who betrays her country or any trust; a traitoress. Dryden.
TRANSPORT n.
A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.
TREASURE n. 2 definitions
Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. This treasure hath fortune unto us given. Chaucer.
TREASURE-HOUSE n.
A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
TREASURY n. 2 definitions
A place or building in which stores of wealth are deposited; especially, a place where public revenues are deposited and kept, and where money is disbursed to defray the expenses of government; hence, also, the place of deposit and disbursement of any collected funds.
TUTOR v.
To have the guardianship or care of; to teach; to instruct. Their sons are well tutored by you. Shak.
TUTRESS n.
Tutoress. [Obs.] Selden.
TUTRIX n.
A female guardian; a tutoress. [R.] Smollett.
UDDER n.
The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma. A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. Shak.
UNAPPROPRIATE v.
To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly. [R.] Milton.
UNBENUMB v.
To relieve of numbness; to restore sensation to.
UNBLIND v.
To free from blindness; to give or restore sight to; to open the eyes of. [R.] J. Webster (1607).
UNFOOL v.
To restore from folly, or from being a fool. [Obs.] Shak.
UNIVERSAL a.
e; whole; as, the universal world. Shak. At which the universal host up dent A shout that tore Hell's concave. Milton.
UNMORALIZED a.
Not restrained or tutored by morality. Norris.
UNTREASURE v.
things previously treasured. "The quaintness with which he untreasured, as by rote, the stores of his memory." J. Mitford.
UNWARP v.
To restore from a warped state; to cause to be linger warped.
VAMPIRE n.
a cæcal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored.
VENDEMIAIRE n.
r), and Fructidor. This calendar was abolished December 31, 1805, and the ordinary one restored January 1, 1806.
VESSEL n.
esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy. He is a chosen vessel unto me. Acts ix. 15. [The serpent] fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom To enter. Milton.
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