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To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. |
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To disparage; to traduce. |
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To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over
lightly or with little notice. |
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To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. |
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To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables. |
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To sing or perform in a smooth, gliding style; to connect
smoothly in performing, as several notes or tones. |
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To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle. |
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A mark or stain; hence, a slight reproach or disgrace; a
stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. |
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A trick played upon a person; an imposition. |
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A mark, thus [/ or /], connecting notes that are to be sung
to the same syllable, or made in one continued breath of a wind
instrument, or with one stroke of a bow; a tie; a sign of legato. |
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In knitting machines, a contrivance for depressing the
sinkers successively by passing over them. |
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