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Picket :: Picket (n.) A detached body of troops serving to guard an army from surprise, and to oppose reconnoitering parties of the enemy; -- called also outlying picket..

Resurrection :: Resurrection (n.) State of being risen from the dead; future state.

Polarity :: Polarity (n.) That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc..

Assassin :: Assassin (n.) One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense..

Insurgent :: Insurgent (n.) A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.

Mesprise :: Mesprise (n.) Contempt; scorn.

Enterprise :: Enterprise (n.) Willingness or eagerness to engage in labor which requires boldness, promptness, energy, and like qualities; as, a man of great enterprise..

Exhale :: Exhale (v. i.) To rise or be given off, as vapor; to pass off, or vanish..

Walloons :: Walloons (n. pl.) A Romanic people inhabiting that part of Belgium which comprises the provinces of Hainaut, Namur, Liege, and Luxembourg, and about one third of Brabant; also, the language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively..

Advertise :: Advertise (v. t.) To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss..

Lift :: Lift (n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals..

Rise :: Rise (n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.

Reveille :: Reveille (n.) The beat of drum, or bugle blast, about break of day, to give notice that it is time for the soldiers to rise, and for the sentinels to forbear challenging..

Notify :: Notify (v. t.) To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting..

Feathering :: Feathering (n.) The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical to a horizontal position. See To feather an oar, under Feather, v. t..

Crane :: Crane (v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become erect; to assume an upright position; as, to rise from a chair or from a fall..

Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..

Admire :: Admire (v. i.) To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.

Enterpriser :: Enterpriser (n.) One who undertakes enterprises.

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