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A game at cards, played by two or more persons. The fortune of each player depends upon obtaining from the dealer such cards that the sum of their pips, or spots, is twenty-one, or a number near to it.
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v. t.
To call upon to witness; to obtest.
v. i.
To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
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To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
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To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
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To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
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A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.
v. t.
To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.
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To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
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A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same.
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To make war upon; to fight.
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An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
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To pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
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Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given to reverie; apt to receive, and act upon, fancies as if they were realities.
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Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current.
v. i.
To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
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A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
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A surcingle, or strap of leather, used for binding a load upon the back of a beast; also, a leather tie; a short wagon rope.
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The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.
v. t.
To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.
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