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Promerit :: Promerit (v. t.) To deserve; to procure by merit.

Have :: Have (v. t.) To cause or procure to be; to effect; to exact; to desire; to require.

Bring :: Bring (v. t.) To cause the accession or obtaining of; to procure; to make to come; to produce; to draw to.

Scarce :: Scarce (superl.) Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon.

Procure :: Procure (v. t.) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.

Tragacanth :: Tragacanth (n.) A kind of gum procured from a spiny leguminous shrub (Astragalus gummifer) of Western Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth..

Cater :: Cater (n.) To provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions..

Hire :: Hire (n.) To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money..

Shirk :: Shirk (v. t.) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.

Procure :: Procure (v. t.) To cause to come; to bring; to attract.

Procuress :: Procuress (n.) A female procurer, or pander..

Buy :: Buy (v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain..

Plimsoll''s Mark :: Plimsoll's mark () A mark conspicuously painted on the port side of all British sea-going merchant vessels, to indicate the limit of submergence allowed by law; -- so called from Samuel Plimsoll, by whose efforts the act of Parliament to prevent overloading was procured..

Pinnace :: Pinnace (n.) A procuress; a pimp.

Compare :: Compare (v. t.) To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquir.

Procure :: Procure (v. t.) To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan..

Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court..

Lena :: Lena (n.) A procuress.

Lignum-vitae :: Lignum-vitae (n.) A tree (Guaiacum officinale) found in the warm latitudes of America, from which the guaiacum of medicine is procured. Its wood is very hard and heavy, and is used for various mechanical purposes, as for the wheels of ships' blocks, cogs, bearings, and the like. See Guaiacum..

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