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To make a lunge.

Having lungs, or breathing organs similar to lungs.

To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi Tomlinson.

To plunge; to implunge. [Obs.] Spenser.

To plunge. Fuller.

One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized…

A large American pike (Esox nobilitor) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maskallonge, maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and muskelunjeh.]

A great medieval German epic of unknown authorship containing traditions which refer to the Burgundians at the time of Attila (called Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements pointing to heathen times.

able; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to plunge the body into water; to plunge a dagger into the breast. Also used figuratively; as, to plunge a nation into war. "To plunge the boy in pleasing sleep." Dryden. Bound and plunged him into a cell. Tennyson. We shall be plunge…

One who, or that which, plunges; a diver.

Rendering fruitless or ineffectual. [Obs.] "Plunged in that abortive gulf." Milton.

hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

A thrust or pass; a lunge.

amusing themselves with pushing stones from the top [of the cliff], and watching as they plunged into the lake. Gilpin.

The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger. Tomlinson.

gine, used in mines, in Cornwall and elsewhere, and for water works. A heavy pump rod or plunger, raised by the steam, forces up the water by its weight, in descending.

To plunge down into; to sink; to immerse. [Obs.] The water in which it was demerged. Boyle.

move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend. The rain descended, and the floods came. Matt. vii. 25. We will here descend to matters of later date. Fuller.