Share on Facebook Thesaurus Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia dis·ap·pear (dĭs′ə-pîr′) v.dis·ap·peared,dis·ap·pear·ing,dis·ap·pears v.intr. 1.To pass out of sight; vanish:The moon disappeared behind the clouds. 2.To cease to be seen; be missing or unfound:Her purse di...
Share on Facebook Thesaurus Encyclopedia ig·nite (ĭg-nīt′) v.ig·nit·ed,ig·nit·ing,ig·nites v.tr. 1. a.To cause to burn:The spark plug ignites the fuel. b.To set fire to:faulty wiring ignited the attic. 2. a.To arouse the passions of; excite:The insults ignited my an...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook sublease (redirected fromsublet) Also found in:Dictionary,Thesaurus,Legal,Financial,Wikipedia. sublease A lease by a tenant to a subtenant of part or all of the premises leased by him, for part or all of the term of his lease. ...
rekindle(v.) alsore-kindle, 1590s, "set on fire again," originally and often figurative, fromre-"back, again" +kindle(v.). Intransitive sense of "take fire or be animated anew" also is from 1590s. Related:Rekindled;rekindling.
... the tail of each regiment came its cook wagons, with fires kindled and food cooking for supper in the big portable ranges, so that when these passed the air would be charged with that pungent reek of burning wood which makes an American think of a fire engine on its ...— Paths...
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I was a bachelor then and I’d located several good-looking girls on the ship, but I knew what I had to do, so I disappeared and started working on the calculations. I’d get something finished and start prowling on the deck again when Edward would turn up out of the night and we...
In the second half of the 18th century the peasantry as a class disappeared. The old landlordism was maintained in the country under a new, free, purely capitalistic system of leasing. By the middle of the 18th century the following prerequisites had appeared for the transition from the ...
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By firm immutable immortal laws Impress’d on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE,Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strifeOrganic forms, and kindled into life;How Love and Sympathy with potent charmWarm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm;Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains,And ...