Definition of act

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Act (v. i.) To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will..

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Morin :: Morin (n.) A yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted from fustic (Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid..
Wince :: Wince (n.) The act of one who winces.
Hoist :: Hoist (n.) The act of hoisting; a lift.
Guileful :: Guileful (a.) Full of guile; characterized by cunning, deceit, or treachery; guilty..
Compensation :: Compensation (n.) The act or principle of compensating.
Heaves :: Heaves (n.) A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind..
Vanillyl :: Vanillyl (n.) The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.
Trutination :: Trutination (n.) The act of weighing.
Extract :: Extract (n.) A peculiar principle once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts; -- called also the extractive principle.
Remonstration :: Remonstration (n.) The act of remonstrating; remonstrance.
Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man..
Excommunication :: Excommunication (n.) The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual..
Rejectment :: Rejectment (n.) Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away..
Saccharin :: Saccharin (n.) A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).
Conspiracy :: Conspiracy (n.) An agreement, manifesting itself in words or deeds, by which two or more persons confederate to do an unlawful act, or to use unlawful to do an act which is lawful; confederacy..
Recumbence :: Recumbence (n.) The act of leaning, resting, or reclining; the state of being recumbent..
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc..
Ignite :: Ignite (v. t.) To subject to the action of intense heat; to heat strongly; -- often said of incombustible or infusible substances; as, to ignite iron or platinum..
Contractibleness :: Contractibleness (n.) Contractibility.
Unwill :: Unwill (v. t.) To annul or reverse by an act of the will.
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