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Artist :: Artist (n.) One who professes and practices an art in which science and taste preside over the manual execution.

Hanging :: Hanging (n.) Death by suspension; execution by a halter.

Stippling :: Stippling (n.) A mode of execution which produces the effect by dots or small points instead of lines.

Carnifex :: Carnifex (n.) The public executioner at Rome, who executed persons of the lowest rank; hence, an executioner or hangman..

Stave :: Stave (n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project..

Hurdle :: Hurdle (n.) In England, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution..

Blank :: Blank (n.) A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc..

Fulfillment :: Fulfillment (n.) Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise..

Extent :: Extent (n.) A peculiar species of execution upon debts due to the crown, under which the lands and goods of the debtor may be seized to secure payment..

Witness :: Witness (v. t.) To see the execution of, as an instrument, and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity; as, to witness a bond or a deed..

Execution :: Execution (n.) The act of sacking a town.

Reprieve :: Reprieve (n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death..

Reprieve :: Reprieve (v. t.) To delay the punishment of; to suspend the execution of sentence on; to give a respite to; to respite; as, to reprieve a criminal for thirty days..

Respite :: Respite (n.) To keep back from execution; to reprieve.

Effect :: Effect (n.) Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May..

Executioner :: Executioner (n.) One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman..

Elegit :: Elegit (n.) A judicial writ of execution, by which a defendant's goods are appraised and delivered to the plaintiff, and, if not sufficient to satisfy the debt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired..

Rapid :: Rapid (a.) Quick in execution; as, a rapid penman..

Dry :: Dry (superl.) Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring..

Dispatchful :: Dispatchful (a.) Bent on haste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks..

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