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Chance; lot; destiny. By aventure, or sort, or cas . Chaucer. Let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. Shak.

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  • SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
    Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
  • KINSFOLK
    Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families. They sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. Luke ii. 44.
  • CLASSIFIC
    Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
  • BLOODSUCKER
    Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
  • CONSANGUINITY
    The relation of person by blood, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • DISPOSEMENT
    Disposal. Goodwin.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • CLASSIFICATORY
    Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
  • DIGESTER
    1. One who digests. 2. A medicine or an article of food that aids digestion, or strengthens digestive power. Rice is . . . a great restorer of health, and a great digester. Sir W. Temple. 3. A strong closed vessel, in which bones or other
  • IMPLY
    1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
  • BLOODSHEDDER
    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
  • CONTRADICTABLE
    Capable of being contradicting.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • CLASSICISM
    A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
  • RELATIONSHIP
    The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
  • PONDEROUS
    1. Very heavy; weighty; as, a ponderous shield; a ponderous load; the ponderous elephant. The sepulcher . . . Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws. Shak. 2. Important; momentous; forcible. "Your more ponderous and settled project." Shak. 3.
  • CATEGORY
    One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek
  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • 'SBLOOD
    An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
  • ENSTAMP
    To stamp; to mark as It is the motive . . . which enstamps the character. Gogan.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
    Equality of weight; equipoise.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • POST OFFICE
    See POST
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.

 

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