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Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of fact in a cause; to carry on the allegations of the respective parties in a cause; to carry on a suit or plea..

Complainant :: Complainant (n.) One who makes complaint.

Rejoin :: Rejoin (v. i.) To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication..

Elegy :: Elegy (n.) A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it..

Querulous :: Querulous (v.) Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice..

Factorize :: Factorize (v. t.) To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he shall not pay the money or deliver the property of the defendant in his hands to him, but appear and answer the suit of the plaintiff..

Supination :: Supervolute (a.) Having a plainted and convolute arrangement in the bud, as in the morning-glory..

Murmur :: Murmur (v. i.) A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice..

Nonsuit :: Nonsuit (n.) A neglect or failure by the plaintiff to follow up his suit; a stopping of the suit; a renunciation or withdrawal of the cause by the plaintiff, either because he is satisfied that he can not support it, or upon the judge's expressing his opinion. A compulsory nonsuit is a nonsuit ordered by the court on the ground that the plaintiff on his own showing has not made out his case..

Grievancer :: Grievancer (n.) One who occasions a grievance; one who gives ground for complaint.

Antibillous :: Antibillous (a.) Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.

Pursuer :: Pursuer (n.) A plaintiff; a prosecutor.

Whimper :: Whimper (n.) A low, whining, broken cry; a low, whining sound, expressive of complaint or grief..

Complaint :: Complaint (n.) An ailment or disease of the body.

Defence :: Defence (n.) The defendant's answer or plea; an opposing or denial of the truth or validity of the plaintiff's or prosecutor's case; the method of proceeding adopted by the defendant to protect himself against the plaintiff's action.

Doloroso :: Doloroso (a. & adv.) Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

Iceland Moss :: Iceland moss () A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent..

Count :: Count (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution..

Find :: Find (v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff..

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