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A piece of metal, or other hard material, thick at one end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.
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Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will.
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Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations.
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A contest between nations or states, carried on by force, whether for defence, for revenging insults and redressing wrongs, for the extension of commerce, for the acquisition of territory, for obtaining and establishing the superiority and dominion of one over the other, or for any other purpose; armed conflict of sovereign powers; declared and open hostilities.
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The possession of one's powers; calmness; self-command; presence of mind; composure.
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The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
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Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
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Reliance on one's own powers or judgment; self-trust.
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Ignorance of one's own character, powers, and limitations.
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An officer who is deputed by a superior, or by proper authority, to exercise the powers of another; a lieutenant; a vicar.
v. t.
To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties.
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To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
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Of or pertaining to tribunes; as, tribunary powers or authority.
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Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
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The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves.
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Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers.
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A follower of Sabellius, a presbyter of Ptolemais in the third century, who maintained that there is but one person in the Godhead, and that the Son and Holy Spirit are only different powers, operations, or offices of the one God the Father.
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Any plant of the umbelliferous genus Sanicula, reputed to have healing powers.
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Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers or judgment.
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Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
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