Definition of state

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State (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited..

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Sulks :: Sulkiness (n.) The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition..
Clamminess :: Clamminess (n.) State of being clammy or viscous.
Hall :: Hall (n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London..
Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days..
Ninepence :: Ninepence (n.) A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents..
Insurmountableness :: Insurmountableness (n.) The state or quality of being insurmountable; insurmountability.
Relationship :: Relationship (n.) The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance..
Mind :: Mind (v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief..
Brew :: Brew (v. i.) To be in a state of preparation; to be mixing, forming, or gathering; as, a storm brews in the west..
Unthriftiness :: Unthriftiness (n.) The quality or state or being unthrifty; profuseness; lavishness.
Marriage :: Marriage (v. t.) The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony..
Minority :: Minority (a. & n.) The state of being a minor, or under age..
Wryness :: Wryness (n.) The quality or state of being wry, or distorted..
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle..
Foxiness :: Foxiness (n.) The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness..
Duress :: Duress (n.) The state of compulsion or necessity in which a person is influenced, whether by the unlawful restrain of his liberty or by actual or threatened physical violence, to incur a civil liability or to commit an offense..
Deaconhood :: Deaconhood (n.) The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.
Misallege :: Misallege (v. t.) To state erroneously.
Effect :: Effect (n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects..
Tame :: Tame (a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast..
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