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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..

Samp :: Samp (n.) An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, which is cooked by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy..

Bruiser :: Bruiser (n.) A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes.

Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes..

Scruze :: Scruze (v. t.) To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise..

Intuse :: Intuse (n.) A bruise; a contusion.

Nubble :: Nubble (v. t.) To beat or bruise with the fist.

Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To bruise; to injure or disorganize a part without breaking the skin.

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation..

Triturate :: Triturate (v. t.) To rub, grind, bruise, or thrash..

Bruise :: Bruise (v. t.) To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a stone; to bruise an apple by letting it fall..

Sore :: Sore (a.) A place in an animal body where the skin and flesh are ruptured or bruised, so as to be tender or painful; a painful or diseased place, such as an ulcer or a boil..

Squat :: Squat (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.

Badiaga :: Badiaga (n.) A fresh-water sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises..

Soapwort :: Soapwort (n.) A common plant (Saponaria officinalis) of the Pink family; -- so called because its bruised leaves, when agitated in water, produce a lather like that from soap. Called also Bouncing Bet..

Surbate :: Surbate (v. t.) To make sore or bruise, as the feet by travel..

Mall :: Mall (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

Bruise :: Bruise (n.) An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body; a contusion; as, a bruise on the head; bruises on fruit..

Capellet :: Capellet (n.) A swelling, like a wen, on the point of the elbow (or the heel of the hock) of a horse, caused probably by bruises in lying down..

Hurter :: Hurter (n.) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound, bruise, or the like..

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