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Try :: Try (n.) Act of trying; attempt; experiment; trial.

Seconder :: Seconder (n.) One who seconds or supports what another attempts, affirms, moves, or proposes; as, the seconder of an enterprise or of a motion..

Embrace :: Embrace (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court..

Attemptive :: Attemptive (a.) Disposed to attempt; adventurous.

Tantalus :: Tantalus (n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them..

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..

Say :: Say (n.) Essay; trial; attempt.

Treason :: Treason (n.) The offense of attempting to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance, or of betraying the state into the hands of a foreign power; disloyalty; treachery..

Try :: Try (v. i.) To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt; as, you must try hard if you wish to learn..

Attempting :: Attempting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Attemp.

Attempted :: Attempted (imp. & p. p.) of Attemp.

Tempt :: Tempt (v. t.) To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt.

Attempt :: Attempt (v. t.) To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman..

Laissez Faire :: Laissez faire () Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government..

Alibi :: Alibi (n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi..

Fruitless :: Fruitless (a.) Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless controversy..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..

Reattempt :: Reattempt (v. t.) To attempt again.

Suit :: Suit (n.) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery..

Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly..

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