To suppress or extinguish quietly; stifle, To avoid; disregard, To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection, noun_ UK, slang Variant spelling of berk, British statesman famous for his oratory; pleaded the cause of the American colonists in British Parliament and defended the parliamentary system (1729-1797)

Something that suggests the presence or existence of a fact, condition, or quality, A displayed structure bearing lettering or symbols, used to identify or advertise a place of business, A conventional figure or device that stands for a word, phrase, or operation; a symbol, as in mathematics or in musical notation, intransitive verb_ To hire or engage by obtaining a signature on a contract, To consecrate with the sign of the cross, To write one's signature

A usually numerical record of a competitive event, A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination, The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs, intransitive verb_ To achieve or gain in a game or contest, To evaluate and assign a grade to, To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug)

The act, process, or technique of selecting an appropriate sample, items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population, the process or technique of obtaining a representative sample, verb_ Present participle of sample

Purpose; motive, A Japanese fermented liquor made from rice. It contains from 11 to 17 per cent. of alcohol, and is heated before being drunk, the purpose of achieving or obtaining

The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person, A victim offered in this way, Baseball A sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly, intransitive verb_ To offer as a sacrifice to a deity, To kill (an animal) for purposes of scientific research or experimentation, To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice, transitive verb_ To destroy; to kill, Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering, To offer (something) as a gift to a deity, verb_ endure the loss of, make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals, kill or destroy

provide with power and authority, place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position, To formally give someone some power or authority, transitive To expend (time, money, or other resources) with a view to obtaining some benefit of value in excess of that expended, or to achieve a useful pupose, To surround, accompany, or attend, intransitive To surround with troops or ships; besiege, To install in office with ceremony, noun_ meteorology An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system,

(medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body, The technique or practice of creating images of otherwise invisible aspects of an object, especially of body parts, The forming of mental images; expression by means of imagery, verb_ Present participle of image

One who, or that which, gives hope, furnishes ground of expectation, or promises desired good, A desire of some good, accompanied with an expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable; an expectation of something which is thought to be desirable; confidence; pleasing expectancy, the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled, verb_ be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes, intend with some possibility of fulfilment, transitive verb_ To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of, obsolete To expect; to fear, intransitive verb_ To entertain or indulge hope; to cherish a desire of good, or of something welcome, with expectation of obtaining it or belief that it is obtainable; to expect; -- usually followed by for, To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; -- usually followed by in

Acquisition; the obtaining or procuring of something by effort, labor, sacrifice, work, conquest, art, etc., or by the payment of money or its equivalent; procurement; acquirement, Prey; booty; plunder; hence, ill-gotten gain or wealth, The act of seeking and acquiring property, transitive verb_ To pull or haul by means of a mechanical device, such as a winch, To obtain in exchange for money or its equivalent; buy, To acquire by any means except descent or inheritance