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A pointed instrument for pricking or puncturing, as a goad, an awl, a skewer, etc.

To deliver a Prologue. [R.] Whewell.

Provided the deductions are logical, they seem almost indifferent to their truth. G. H. Lewes.

only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends. Whewell.

ubstances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.

tain it in place. -- Rag carpet, a carpet of which the weft consists of narrow of cloth sewed together, end to end. -- Rag dust, fine particles of ground-up rags, used in making papier-maché and wall papers. -- Rag wheel. (a) A chain wheel; a sprocket wheel. (b) A polishing wheel made of disks of cloth clamped toget…

A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.

A renewed alliance.

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

A renewed or second assessment.

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne.

A second or renewed colonization.

A second or renewed commitment; a renewed reference to a committee.

Renewed consecration.

To take up for renewed consideration, as a motion or a vote which has been previously acted upon.

A coursing back, or coursing again, along the line of a previous coursing; renewed course; return; retreat; recurence. [Obs.] "Swift recourse of flushing blood." Spenser. Unto my first I will have my recourse. Chaucer. Preventive physic . . . preventeth sickness in the healthy, or the recourse thereof in the valetudina…

To get or obtain again; to get renewed possession of; to win back; to regain. David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away. 1. Sam. xxx. 18.

To be in a state of recrudescence; esp., to come into renewed freshness, vigor, or activity; to revive.

A demanding back; a second or renewed demand.