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Must :: Must (n.) The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation..

Tan :: Tan (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark..

C :: C () C is the third letter of the English alphabet. It is from the Latin letter C, which in old Latin represented the sounds of k, and g (in go); its original value being the latter. In Anglo-Saxon words, or Old English before the Norman Conquest, it always has the sound of k. The Latin C was the same letter as the Greek /, /, and came from the Greek alphabet. The Greeks got it from the Ph/nicians. The English name of C is from the Latin name ce, and was derived, probably, through the French. Et

Disqualify :: Disqualify (v. t.) To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act..

Prediscover :: Prediscover (v. t.) To discover beforehand.

Anterior :: Anterior (a.) Before in time; antecedent.

Shredcook :: Shredcook (n.) The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain.

Preconsign :: Preconsign (v. t.) To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.

Synallagmatic :: Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army..

Librate :: Librate (v. i.) To vibrate as a balance does before resting in equilibrium; hence, to be poised..

Article :: Article (n.) One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A (or an) is called the indefinite article, the the definite article..

Antediluvian :: Antediluvian (n.) One who lived before the Deluge.

Advocate :: Advocate (n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

Predetermine :: Predetermine (v. i.) To determine beforehand.

Farse :: Farse (n.) An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation..

Drawbridge :: Drawbridge (n.) A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal..

Abdest :: Abdest (n.) Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.

Presage :: Presage (v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.

Legitimate :: Legitimate (v. t.) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child..

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