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430 words match “LARE”

TREASONABLE a.
t 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.
ld concur with him in the preserving of a good understanding between him and his people. Clarendon.
UNGRACIOUS a.
red. 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.
arried; 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.
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.
r. Shak. Neither of them valued their promises according to rules of honor or integrity. Clarendon.
VANQUISH v.
due 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.
VINE n.
f beetles whose larvæ bore in the wood or pith of the grapevine, especially Sinoxylon basilare, a small species the larva of which bores in the stems, and Ampeloglypter sesostris, a small reddish brown weevil (called also vine weevil), which produces knotlike galls on the branches. (b) A clearwing moth (Ægeria polistif…
VISIBLE a.
en; conspicuous. Shak. The factions at court were greater, or more visible, than before. Clarendon. Visible church (Theol.), the apparent church of Christ on earth; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contradistinguished from the invisible, or real, church, consisting of sanctified persons. -- Visible…
VOID v.
a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Clarendon.
VOTE v.
To declare by general opinion or common consent, as if by a vote; as, he was voted a bore. [Colloq.]
VOUCH v.
To assert; to aver; to declare. Shak.
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