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330 words match “URGE”

URGE v. 8 definitions
o press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. Through the thick deserts headlong urged his flight. Pope.
URGENCE n.
Urgency. [Obs.]
URGENCY n.
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
URGENT a.
ing; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.
URGENTLY adv.
In an urgent manner.
URGER n.
One who urges. Beau. & Fl.
ASSURGENCY n.
Act of rising. The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge.
ASSURGENT a. 2 definitions
Ascending; (Bot.)
BOURGEOIS n. 3 definitions
A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
BOURGEOISIE n.
The French middle class, particularly such as are concerned in, or dependent on, trade.
BOURGEON v.
To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch. Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott.
BURGEE n. 2 definitions
A kind of small coat.
BURGEOIS n. 2 definitions
See 1st Bourgeous.
BURGEON v.
To bud. See Bourgeon.
BURGESS n. 4 definitions
An inhabitant of a borough or walled town, or one who possesses a tenement therein; a citizen or freeman of a borough. Blackstone.
BURGESS-SHIP n.
The state of privilege of a burgess. South.
CHIRURGEON n.
A surgeon. [Obs.]
CHIRURGEONLY adv.
Surgically. [Obs.] Shak.
CHIRURGERY n.
Surgery. [Obs.]
DEMIURGE n. 3 definitions
The chief magistrate in some of the Greek states.
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