These are the meanings of the letters ABETOS when you unscramble them.
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Baste (v. t.)
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
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Baste (v. t.)
To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
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Baste (v. t.)
To mark with tar, as sheep.
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Baste (v. t.)
To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
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Beast (n.)
Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
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Beast (n.)
Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
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Beast (n.)
As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
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Beast (n.)
Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
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Beast (n.)
A game at cards similar to loo.
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Beast (n.)
A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
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Besot (v. t.)
To make sottish; to make dull or stupid; to stupefy; to infatuate.
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Boast (v. i.)
To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's self; as, to boast of one's exploits courage, descent, wealth.
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Boast (v. i.)
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
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Boast (v. t.)
To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
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Boast (v. t.)
To display vaingloriously.
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Boast (v. t.)
To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
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Boast (v. t.)
To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
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Boast (v. t.)
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
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Boast (n.)
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
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Boast (n.)
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
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Sabot (n.)
A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries.
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Sabot (n.)
A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.
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Tabes (n.)
Progressive emaciation of the body, accompained with hectic fever, with no well-marked logical symptoms.