These are the meanings of the letters FUERCES when you unscramble them.
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Cereus (n.)
A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili.
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Ceruse (n.)
A cosmetic containing white lead.
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Ceruse (n.)
The native carbonate of lead.
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Ceruse (n.)
White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White.
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Fescue (n.)
A grass of the genus Festuca.
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Fescue (n.)
A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
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Fescue (n.)
An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
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Fescue (n.)
The style of a dial.
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Fescue (v. i. & t.)
To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
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Recuse (v. t.)
To refuse or reject, as a judge; to challenge that the judge shall not try the cause.
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Refuse (a.)
Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.
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Refuse (n.)
Refusal.
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Refuse (n.)
That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.
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Refuse (v. i.)
To deny compliance; not to comply.
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Refuse (v. t.)
To decline to accept; to reject; to deny the request or petition of; as, to refuse a suitor.
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Refuse (v. t.)
To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
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Refuse (v. t.)
To disown.
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Refuse (v. t.)
To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar/ about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
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Rescue (v.)
The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation.
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Rescue (v.)
The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.
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Rescue (v.)
The forcible retaking, or taking away, against law, of things lawfully distrained.
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Rescue (v.)
The retaking by a party captured of a prize made by the enemy.
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Rescue (v. t.)
To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction.
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Secure (a.)
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; -- commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.
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Secure (a.)
Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.
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Secure (a.)
Net exposed to danger; safe; -- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.
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Secure (a.)
Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
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Secure (v. t.)
To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.
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Secure (v. t.)
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.
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Secure (v. t.)
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
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Secure (v. t.)
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; -- frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.