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168 words match “BARE”

BUFF n.
The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.] To be in buff is equivalent to being naked. Wright.
BUSHLESS a.
Free from bushes; bare. O'er the long backs of the bushless downs. Tennyson.
CALCED a.
Wearing shoes; calceated; -- in distintion from discalced or barefooted; as the calced Carmelites.
CAPUCHIN n.
teo di Baschi, distinguished by wearing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. Sir W. Scott.
CAT n.
s of knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of another, at each transfer with a change…
CLOG n.
ture, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine. In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. Harvey. Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square pie…
CLOY v.
o satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.
COCKATOO n.
A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk. That bare vowel, I, shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. Shak.
COMMITMENT n.
ust; consigment; esp., the act of commiting to prison. They were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon.
COMMUNION n.
nd fellowship with others. Hooker. What communion hath light with darkness 2 Cor. vi. 14. Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South.
COMPOUND v.
ow; . . . compound with him by the year. Shak. They were at last glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower. Clarendon. Cornwall compounded to furnish ten oxen after Michaelmas for thirty pounds. R. Carew. Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to. Hudibras.…
CONFUSE a.
Mixed; confounded. [Obs.] Baret.
COURTEPY n.
A short coat of coarse cloth. [Obs.] Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
CROWN n.
The topmost part of anything; the summit. The steepy crown of the bare mountains. Dryden.
CRUMBLE v.
To break into small pieces; to cause to fall in pieces. He with his bare wand can unthread thy joints, And crumble all thy sinews. Milton.
CURRENCY n.
kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value. Bacon. The bare name of Englishman . . . too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. W. Irving.
DAUGHTER n.
woman, being a daughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1.
DENIAL n.
n; -- the contrary of affirmation. You ought to converse with so much sincerity that your bare affirmation or denial may be sufficient. Bp. Stillingfleet.
DENUDATION n. 2 definitions
The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
DENUDE v.
To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip; to divest; as, to denude one of clothing, or lands.
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