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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. t.
To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany; to await.
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To put upon wages; to hire; to employ; to pay wages to.
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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.
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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.
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 make war upon; to fight.
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Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current.
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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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An old stringed instrument played upon with a wheel; a hurdy-gurdy.
v. i.
To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
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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.
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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A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.
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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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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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To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
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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 pass through, over, or upon; to traverse; to perambulate; as, to walk the streets.
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