These are the meanings of the letters STEPT when you unscramble them.
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Pest (n.)
A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague.
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Pest (n.)
Anything which resembles a pest; one who, or that which, is troublesome, noxious, mischievous, or destructive; a nuisance.
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pets (unknown)
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Sept (n.)
A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.
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Sett (n.)
See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.
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Step (a.)
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
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Step (a.)
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
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Step (a.)
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
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Step (a.)
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
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Step (v. i.)
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
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Step (v. i.)
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
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Step (v. i.)
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
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Step (v. i.)
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
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Step (v. i.)
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
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Step (v. i.)
A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
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Step (v. i.)
An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
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Step (v. i.)
Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
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Step (v. i.)
In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
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Step (v. i.)
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
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Step (v. i.)
Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
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Step (v. i.)
The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
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Step (v. i.)
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
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Step (v. i.)
Walk; passage.
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Step (v. t.)
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
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Step (v. t.)
To set, as the foot.
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Stet (subj. 3d pers. sing.)
Let it stand; -- a word used by proof readers to signify that something once erased, or marked for omission, is to remain.
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Stet (v. t.)
To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.
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Test (n.)
A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.
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Test (n.)
A reaction employed to recognize or distinguish any particular substance or constituent of a compound, as the production of some characteristic precipitate; also, the reagent employed to produce such reaction; thus, the ordinary test for sulphuric acid is the production of a white insoluble precipitate of barium sulphate by means of some soluble barium salt.
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Test (n.)
A witness.
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Test (n.)
Alt. of Testa
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Test (n.)
Discriminative characteristic; standard of judgment; ground of admission or exclusion.
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Test (n.)
Examination or trial by the cupel; hence, any critical examination or decisive trial; as, to put a man's assertions to a test.
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Test (n.)
Judgment; distinction; discrimination.
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Test (n.)
Means of trial; as, absence is a test of love.
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Test (n.)
That with which anything is compared for proof of its genuineness; a touchstone; a standard.
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Test (v. i.)
To make a testament, or will.
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Test (v. t.)
To examine or try, as by the use of some reagent; as, to test a solution by litmus paper.
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Test (v. t.)
To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try; as, to test the soundness of a principle; to test the validity of an argument.
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Test (v. t.)
To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation.
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tets (unknown)
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