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flock
Tiny, fine fibers of wool, rayon, etc. applied to a fabric, wallpaper, or the like to form a velvetlike pattern
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  1. Tiny, fine fibers of wool, rayon, etc. applied to a fabric, wallpaper, or the like to form a velvetlike pattern
  2. Any group, esp. a large one, as the members of a church or the children in a family
  3. A group of animals that live, travel, or feed together.
offspring
A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
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  1. A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
  2. A child or children of a parent or parents:
  3. An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
young
A British distinguishing surname for the younger of two people having the same given name.
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  1. A British distinguishing surname for the younger of two people having the same given name.
  2. Young people
  3. Offspring; brood:
set
To disappear below the horizon:
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  1. To disappear below the horizon:
  2. To put in a specified position or arrangement; place:
  3. (--- Nautical) To spread open to the wind:
cover
In commercial law, to buy, or the purchase of, goods on the open market that are similar to those that a seller of such goods had promised, but failed, to deliver. Under the Uniform Commercial Code, the buyer is entitled from the seller the difference between the cost of the substituted goods and the original contract price if the buyer acted in good faith and without unreasonable delay when obtaining the substituted goods.
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  1. In commercial law, to buy, or the purchase of, goods on the open market that are similar to those that a seller of such goods had promised, but failed, to deliver. Under the Uniform Commercial Code, the buyer is entitled from the seller the difference between the cost of the substituted goods and the original contract price if the buyer acted in good faith and without unreasonable delay when obtaining the substituted goods.
  2. To put a cover or covering on:
  3. To record or perform a cover of
incubate
To go through the process of incubation
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  1. To go through the process of incubation
  2. To cause to develop or take form, as by thought or planning
  3. To maintain (a chemical or biochemical system) under specific conditions in order to promote a particular reaction.
warm
To become kindly disposed or friendly:
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  1. To become kindly disposed or friendly:
  2. To become warm
  3. To become ardent, enthusiastic, or animated:
sit
To stay with a person so as to provide companionship for a short time; keep someone company
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  1. To stay with a person so as to provide companionship for a short time; keep someone company
  2. To have a certain direction; set
  3. To cover and warm eggs for hatching; set; brood
mope
To move in a listless or aimless manner, especially from being sad or depressed:
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  1. To move in a listless or aimless manner, especially from being sad or depressed:
  2. To pass in gloom, dullness, etc.
  3. To think gloomily and persistently about something; be dejected.
ruminate
To chew (the cud), as a cow does
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  1. To chew (the cud), as a cow does
  2. To reflect on over and over again.
  3. To turn (something) over in the mind; meditate (on)
ponder
To think about (something) with thoroughness and care.
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  1. To think about (something) with thoroughness and care.
  2. To reflect or consider with thoroughness and care.
  3. To weigh mentally; think deeply about; consider carefully
repine
To fail; to wane.
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  1. To fail; to wane.
  2. To yearn after something:
  3. To feel or express unhappiness or discontent; complain; fret
grieve
To experience or express grief.
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  1. To experience or express grief.
  2. To cause to be sorrowful; distress:
  3. To cause to feel grief; afflict with deep, acute sorrow or distress
fret
To irritate; vex; annoy; worry
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  1. To irritate; vex; annoy; worry
  2. To be worn or eaten away; become corroded.
  3. To become eaten, corroded, worn, frayed, etc.
sulk
To be sulky
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  1. To be sulky
  2. To be sullenly aloof or withdrawn, as in silent resentment or protest.
  3. To express ill humor or offense by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.
consider
To think carefully about (something), especially before making a decision;
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  1. To think carefully about (something), especially before making a decision;
  2. To think about in order to understand or decide; ponder
  3. To show consideration for:
muse
To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in thought.
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  1. To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in thought.
  2. To think or say meditatively
  3. To consider or say thoughtfully:
mull-over
To think deeply about something; to ponder, deliberate or ruminate.
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  1. To think deeply about something; to ponder, deliberate or ruminate.
deliberate
To think or consider carefully and fully; esp., to consider reasons for and against a thing in order to make up one's mind
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  1. To think or consider carefully and fully; esp., to consider reasons for and against a thing in order to make up one's mind
  2. To consider (a matter) carefully and often slowly, as by weighing alternatives.
  3. To consider carefully
dwell-on
To continue to think or talk about (something or someone).
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  1. To continue to think or talk about (something or someone).
agonize
To make convulsive efforts; struggle
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  1. To make convulsive efforts; struggle
  2. To be in agony or great pain; feel anguish
  3. To suffer mental anguish or worry about something:
speculate
To engage in the buying or selling of a commodity with an element of risk on the chance of profit.
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  1. To engage in the buying or selling of a commodity with an element of risk on the chance of profit.
  2. To buy or sell stocks, commodities, land, etc., usually in the face of higher than ordinary risk, hoping to take advantage of an expected rise or fall in price; also, to take part in any risky venture on the chance of making huge profits
  3. To think about the various aspects of a given subject; meditate; ponder; esp., to conjecture
daydream
To have daydreams
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  1. To have daydreams
  2. To have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.
  3. To have such a series of thoughts; to woolgather.
reflect
To give something back, as light or sound:
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  1. To give something back, as light or sound:
  2. (Intransitive) To think seriously; to ponder or consider.
  3. To think seriously.
meditate
To engage in meditation regarding (a religious mystery, for example).
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  1. To engage in meditation regarding (a religious mystery, for example).
  2. To engage in focused thought on scriptural passages or on particular doctrines or mysteries of a religion, especially Christianity.
  3. To think or reflect, especially in a calm and deliberate manner.
worry
To annoy, bother, harass, vex, etc.
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  1. To annoy, bother, harass, vex, etc.
  2. To cause to feel anxious, distressed, or troubled.
  3. To touch or handle something nervously or persistently:
litter
Things lying about in disorder, esp., bits of rubbish scattered about
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  1. Things lying about in disorder, esp., bits of rubbish scattered about
  2. An absorbent granular or pelletized material used to cover the bottom of a receptacle (litter box) into which a domestic pet, esp. a cat, is trained to urinate and defecate
  3. The young borne at one time by a dog, cat, or other animal which normally bears several young at a delivery
young
A British distinguishing surname for the younger of two people having the same given name.
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  1. A British distinguishing surname for the younger of two people having the same given name.
  2. Young people
  3. Offspring; brood:
get
(Chiefly British Slang) A foolish or contemptible person.
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  1. (Chiefly British Slang) A foolish or contemptible person.
  2. (Sports) A return, as in tennis, on a shot that seems impossible to reach.
  3. Progeny; offspring:
issue
A misgiving, objection, or complaint:
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  1. A misgiving, objection, or complaint:
  2. A culminating point leading to a decision:
  3. The thing or set of things issued; all that is put forth and circulated at one time
offspring
A child or animal as related to its parent
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  1. A child or animal as related to its parent
  2. (Figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
  3. The result or product of something:
posterity
All succeeding generations
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  1. All succeeding generations
  2. All of a person's descendants
  3. Future generations:
progeny
A result or product:
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  1. A result or product:
  2. A child or children of a parent or parents:
  3. A person's descendants considered as a group.
seed
Something that resembles a seed, as:
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  1. Something that resembles a seed, as:
  2. Something tiny, like a seed
  3. A mature fertilized ovule of angiosperms and gymnosperms that contains an embryo and the food it will need to grow into a new plant. Seeds provide a great reproductive advantage in being able to survive for extended periods until conditions are favorable for germination and growth. The seeds of gymnosperms (such as the conifers) develop on scales of cones or similar structures, while the seeds of angiosperms are enclosed in an ovary that develops into a fruit, such as a pome or nut. The structure of seeds varies somewhat. All seeds are enclosed in a protective seed coat. In certain angiosperms the embryo is enclosed in or attached to an endosperm , a tissue that it uses as a food source either before or during germination. All angiosperm embryos also have at least one cotyledon . The first seed-bearing plants emerged at least 365 million years ago in the late Devonian Period. Many angiosperms have evolved specific fruits for dispersal of seeds by the wind, water, or animals.
cark
Eye dialect spelling of caulk.
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  1. Eye dialect spelling of caulk.
  2. (Obsolete) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
  3. To worry or be worried
dwell
To live as a resident; reside.
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  1. To live as a resident; reside.
  2. To fasten one's attention on something, especially moodily or persistently:
  3. To speak or write at length; expatiate:
fret
To wear away by gnawing, rubbing, corroding, etc.
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  1. To wear away by gnawing, rubbing, corroding, etc.
  2. To ornament with a fret
  3. To irritate; vex; annoy; worry
mope
To pass in gloom, dullness, etc.
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  1. To pass in gloom, dullness, etc.
  2. To make gloomy, dull, etc.
  3. To think gloomily and persistently about something; be dejected.
worry
To bother or annoy, as with petty complaints.
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  1. To bother or annoy, as with petty complaints.
  2. To annoy, bother, harass, vex, etc.
  3. To touch or handle something nervously or persistently:
stew
To undergo cooking in this way
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  1. To undergo cooking in this way
  2. To cook by simmering or boiling slowly for a long time
  3. To fret, fume, or worry; be vexed or troubled
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  • Fear seemed to brood over the peoples of Western Europe.

  • To these things used to y listen at the time, through the mercy of God vouchsafed to me, noting them down, not on paper but in my heart, and constantly by the grace of God brood over my accurate recollections."These are priceless words, for they establish a chain of tradition (John-Polycarp-Irenaeus) which is without a parallel in early church history.

  • "Without any religious rite at all," he urges, "unclean spirits brood upon waters, aspiring to repeat that primordial gestation of the divine Spirit."

  • Andersson in his Lake N'gami (pp. 2 5326 9) has given a lively account of the pursuit by himself and Francis Galton of a brood of ostriches, in the course of which the male bird feigned being wounded to distract their attention from his offspring.

  • The first two are found in both forms of foul brood, whereas the last is only present with B.

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