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To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was

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To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease. The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent, that it was found expedient to conciliate the nation. Hallam. Syn. -- To reconcile; propitiate; appease; pacify.

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • ANNEX
    to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
  • UNITERABLE
    Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
  • CONNECTOR
    One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
  • ROUSE
    To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • AGITATE
    1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
  • ADJUSTIVE
    Tending to adjust.
  • ATTRACTABILITY
    The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
  • FASTENER
    One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
  • ATTRACTILE
    Having power to attract.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • APPENDICAL
    Of or like an appendix.
  • CONNECTIVELY
    In connjunction; jointly.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • ENDEAR
    1. To make dear or beloved. "To be endeared to a king." Shak. 2. To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. King James I. .
  • ANNEXATION
    1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • DISQUIETTUDE
    Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
  • TROUSERING
    Cloth or material for making trousers.
  • EFFLAGITATE
    To ask urgently. Cockeram.
  • DISQUIETLY
    In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
  • UNQUIET
    To disquiet. Ld. Herbert.
  • CAPACIFY
    To quality. The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.
  • DISTILLABLE
    Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
  • TROUSE
    Trousers. Spenser.
  • DISTILLATION
    The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible

 

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