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Soil :: Soil (n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer..

Burn :: Burn (v. i.) In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought..

Besought :: Besought () p. p. of Beseech.

Spagyrist :: Spagyrist (n.) One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists..

Worth :: Worth (a.) That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price..

Farfetched :: Farfetched (a.) Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained.

Proportion :: Proportion (n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional..

Civil :: Civil (a.) Relating to rights and remedies sought by action or suit distinct from criminal proceedings.

Sought :: Sought (imp. & p. p.) of See.

Gallicanism :: Gallicanism (n.) The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church..

Object :: Object (v. t.) That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause..

Request :: Request (n.) A state of being desired or held in such estimation as to be sought after or asked for; demand.

Garnishee :: Garnishee (v. t.) To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.

Competition :: Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with..

Lecanomancy :: Lecanomancy (n.) divination practiced with water in a basin, by throwing three stones into it, and invoking the demon whose aid was sought..

Warm :: Warm (superl.) In children's games, being near the object sought for; hence, being close to the discovery of some person, thing, or fact concealed..

Implore :: Implore (v. t.) To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought..

Romanticism :: Romanticism (n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style..

Declarator :: Declarator (n.) A form of action by which some right or interest is sought to be judicially declared.

Neoplatonism :: Neoplatonism (n.) A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy..

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