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  • 81walk — [n1] brief travel on foot airing, carriage, circuit, constitutional, gait, hike, jaunt, march, pace, parade, perambulation, peregrination, promenade, ramble, saunter, schlepp*, step, stretch, stride, stroll, tour, traipse, tramp, tread, turn;… …

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  • 82saun´ter|ing|ly — saun|ter «SN tuhr, SAHN », verb, noun. –v.i. to walk along slowly, happily, and aimlessly; stroll: »People sauntered through the park on summer evenings. –n. 1. a leisurely or carelesait: »The other…walked slowly, with a sort of saunter, towards… …

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  • 83saun´ter|er — saun|ter «SN tuhr, SAHN », verb, noun. –v.i. to walk along slowly, happily, and aimlessly; stroll: »People sauntered through the park on summer evenings. –n. 1. a leisurely or carelesait: »The other…walked slowly, with a sort of saunter, towards… …

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  • 84saun|ter — «SN tuhr, SAHN », verb, noun. –v.i. to walk along slowly, happily, and aimlessly; stroll: »People sauntered through the park on summer evenings. –n. 1. a leisurely or carelesait: »The other…walked slowly, with a sort of saunter, towards Adam… …

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  • 85Dander — Dan der, v. i. [See {Dandle}.] To wander about; to saunter; to talk incoherently. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. [1913 Webster] || …

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  • 86Dawdle — Daw dle (d[add] d l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawdled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dawdling}.] [Cf. {Daddle}.] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. [1913 Webster] Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson. [1913… …

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  • 87Dawdled — Dawdle Daw dle (d[add] d l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawdled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dawdling}.] [Cf. {Daddle}.] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. [1913 Webster] Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson …

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  • 88Dawdling — Dawdle Daw dle (d[add] d l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawdled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dawdling}.] [Cf. {Daddle}.] To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter. [1913 Webster] Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson …

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  • 89Despondence — De*spond ence, n. Despondency. [1913 Webster] The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 90Knock — (n[o^]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Knocked} (n[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Knocking}.] [OE. knoken, AS. cnocian, cnucian; prob. of imitative origin; cf. Sw. knacka. Cf. {Knack}.] 1. To drive or be driven against something; to strike against something;… …

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