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Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To cause to cease for a time; to hinder from proceeding; to interrupt; to delay; to stay.

Estrepe :: Estrepe (v. t.) To strip or lay bare, as land of wood, houses, etc.; to commit waste..

Unison :: Unison (n.) Identity in pitch; coincidence of sounds proceeding from an equality in the number of vibrations made in a given time by two or more sonorous bodies. Parts played or sung in octaves are also said to be in unison, or in octaves..

Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land..

Rompish :: Rompish (a.) Given to rude play; inclined to romp.

By :: By (a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc..

Found :: Found (v. i.) To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly..

Paver :: Paver (n.) One who paves; one who lays a pavement.

Depredate :: Depredate (v. t.) To subject to plunder and pillage; to despoil; to lay waste; to prey upon.

Presentation :: Presentation (n.) exhibition; representation; display; appearance; semblance; show.

Slatterpouch :: Slatterpouch (n.) A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise..

Laid :: Laid (imp. & p. p.) of Lay.

Overlay :: Overlay (v. t.) To put an overlay on.

Pair :: Pair (n.) A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. A pair of beads. Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. Four pair of stairs. Macaulay. [Now mostly or quite disused, except as to stairs.].

Allayment :: Allayment (n.) An allaying; that which allays; mitigation.

Impropriate :: Impropriate (a.) Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.

Gall :: Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut..

Vastation :: Vastation (n.) A laying waste; waste; depopulation; devastation.

Tumbledung :: Tumbledung (n.) Any one of numerous species of scaraboid beetles belonging to Scarabaeus, Copris, Phanaeus, and allied genera. The female lays her eggs in a globular mass of dung which she rolls by means of her hind legs to a burrow excavated in the earth in which she buries it..

Coating :: Coating (n.) A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial..

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