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372 words match “CLARE”

TO prep.
Pet. i. 5,6,7. I have a king's oath to the contrary. Shak. Numbers were crowded to death. Clarendon. Fate and the dooming gods are deaf to tears. Dryden. Go, buckle to the law. Dryden.
TOOTLE v.
ment, as a flute; also, to make a similar noise by any means. "The tootling robin." John Clare.
TORTURE n.
orturing. Torture, whitch had always been deciared illegal, and which had recently been declared illegal even by the servile judges of that age, was inflicted for the last time in England in the month of May,
TOWARD; TOWARDS prep.
irection of; in behalf of. This was the first alarm England received towards any trouble. Clarendom.
TRANSPLANT v.
s. Being transplanted out of his cold, barren diocese of St. David into a warmer climate. Clarendon.
TREASONABLE a.
st men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon.
TRUMPET n.
A trumpeter. Clarendon.
TRUTH v.
To assert as true; to declare. [R.] Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. Ford.
UNBOY v.
To divest of the traits of a boy. [R.] Clarendon.
UNCLOSED a.
Not separated by inclosures; open. Clarendon.
UNDERSTANDING n.
uld concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people. Clarendon.
UNGRACIOUS a.
ored. Anything of grace toward the Irish rebels was as ungracious at Oxford as at London. Clarendon. -- Un*gra"cious*ly, adv. -- Un*gra"cious*ness, n.
UNITE v.
Milton. The king proposed nothing more than to unite his kingdom in one form of worship. Clarendon.
UNSEEN a.
Unskilled; inexperienced. [Obs.] Clarendon.
UNWIELDY a.
carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old." Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n.
UTI POSSIDETIS n.
t granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor. Burrill.
UTTER a.
Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial. Clarendon. Utter bar (Law), the whole body of junior barristers. See Outer bar, under 1st Outer. [Eng.] -- Utter barrister (Law), one recently admitted as barrister, who is accustomed to plead without, or outside, the bar, as distinguished f…
VALUE v.
er. Shak. Neither of them valued their promises according to rules of honor or integrity. Clarendon.
VANQUISH v.
bdue in battle, as an enemy. Hakluyt. They . . . Vanquished the rebels in all encounters. Clarendon.
VIN ORDINAIRE n.
A cheap claret, used as a table wine in France.
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