These are the meanings of the letters FLNERIE when you unscramble them.
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Feline (a.)
Catlike; of or pertaining to the genus Felis, or family Felidae; as, the feline race; feline voracity.
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Feline (a.)
Characteristic of cats; sly; stealthy; treacherous; as, a feline nature; feline manners.
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Ferine (a.)
Wild; untamed; savage; as, lions, tigers, wolves, and bears are ferine beasts.
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Ferine (n.)
A wild beast; a beast of prey.
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Refine (v. t.)
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
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Refine (v. t.)
To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
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Refine (v. i.)
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
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Refine (v. i.)
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
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Refine (v. i.)
To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
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Relief (n.)
The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; the removal, or partial removal, of any evil, or of anything oppressive or burdensome, by which some ease is obtained; succor; alleviation; comfort; ease; redress.
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Relief (n.)
Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
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Relief (n.)
That which removes or lessens evil, pain, discomfort, uneasiness, etc.; that which gives succor, aid, or comfort; also, the person who relieves from performance of duty by taking the place of another; a relay.
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Relief (n.)
A fine or composition which the heir of a deceased tenant paid to the lord for the privilege of taking up the estate, which, on strict feudal principles, had lapsed or fallen to the lord on the death of the tenant.
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Relief (n.)
The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on which it is formed.
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Relief (n.)
The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.
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Relief (n.)
The height to which works are raised above the bottom of the ditch.
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Relief (n.)
The elevations and surface undulations of a country.