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Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..

Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter..

Volunteer :: Volunteer (a.) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made..

Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Proceeding from the will; produced in or by an act of choice.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait..

Willful :: Willful (a.) Of set purpose; self-determined; voluntary; as, willful murder..

Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Endowed with the power of willing; as, man is a voluntary agent..

Trichina :: Trichina (n.) A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their

Trespass :: Trespass (v.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Free; without compulsion; according to the will, consent, or agreement, of a party; without consideration; gratuitous; without valuable consideration..

Offertory :: Offertory (n.) An anthem chanted, or a voluntary played on the organ, during the offering and first part of the Mass..

Voluntary :: Voluntary (n.) A piece played by a musician, often extemporarily, according to his fancy; specifically, an organ solo played before, during, or after divine service..

Consent :: Consent (n.) Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission..

Imperate :: Imperate (a.) Done by express direction; not involuntary; communded.

Penance :: Penance (n.) A means of repairing a sin committed, and obtaining pardon for it, consisting partly in the performance of expiatory rites, partly in voluntary submission to a punishment corresponding to the transgression. Penance is the fourth of seven sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church..

Cramp :: Cramp (n.) A spasmodic and painful involuntary contraction of a muscle or muscles, as of the leg..

Ultroneous :: Ultroneous (a.) Spontaneous; voluntary.

Enuresis :: Enuresis (n.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

Automatical :: Automatical (a.) Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions..

Stammer :: Stammer (v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.

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