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historical
     1. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
           July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
           The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
     2. adj.          (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.
     3. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
     4. adj.          (literature, art) Set in the past.
     5. adj.          (uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
     6. adj.          (grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
     7. adj.          (obsolete, biology) (synonym of hereditary) or evolutionary.
     8. adj. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
           The Royal Historical Society
           The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
     9. adj.          Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
     10. adj.          (uncommon) (synonym of historic): important or likely to be important to history and historians.
     11. adj. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
           historical-political
     12. n. A historical romance.
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
steward
     1. n. A person who manages the property or affairs for another entity, particularly (historical) the chief administrator of a medieval manor.
     2. n. A ship's officer who is in charge of making dining arrangements and provisions.
     3. n. A flight attendant, (chiefly) a male flight attendant.
     4. n. A union member who is selected as a representative for fellow workers in negotiating terms with management.
     5. n. A person who has charge of buildings and/or grounds and/or animals.
     6. n. A fiscal agent of certain bodies.
           a steward in a Methodist church
     7. n. In some colleges, an officer who provides food for the students and superintends the kitchen; also, an officer who attends to the accounts of the students.
     8. n. In Scotland, a magistrate appointed by the crown to exercise jurisdiction over royal lands.
     9. n. In information technology, somebody who is responsible for managing a set of projects, products or technologies and how they affect the IT organization to which they belong.
     10. v. To act as the steward or caretaker of (something)
the
     1. art. Definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that an entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in that same sentence, or assumed already
           I’m reading the book. (Compare I’m reading a book.)
           The street in front of your house. (Compare A street in Paris.)
           The men and women watched the man give the birdseed to the bird.
     2. art.          Used before a noun modified by a restrictive relative clause, indicating that the noun refers to a single referent defined by the relative clause.
                    The street that runs through my hometown.
     3. art. Used before an object considered to be unique, or of which there is only one at a time.
           No one knows how many galaxies there are in the universe.
           God save the Queen!
     4. art. Used before a superlative or an ordinal number modifying a noun, to indicate that the noun refers to a single item.
           That was the best apple pie ever.
     5. art.          Added to a superlative or an ordinal number to make it into a substantive.
                    That apple pie was the best.
     6. art. Introducing a singular term to be taken generically: preceding a name of something standing for a whole class.
     7. art. Used before an adjective, indicating all things (especially persons) described by that adjective.
           Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
     8. art. Used to indicate a certain example of (a noun) which is usually of most concern or most common or familiar.
           No one in the whole country had seen it before.
           I don't think I'll get to it until the morning.
     9. art. Used before a body part (especially of someone previously mentioned), as an alternative to a possessive pronoun.
           A stone hit him on the head. (= “A stone hit him on his head.”)
     10. art. When stressed, indicates that it describes an object which is considered to be best or exclusively worthy of attention.
           That is the hospital to go to for heart surgery.
     11. adv. 1=With a comparative ormore and a verb phrase, establishes a parallel with one or more other such comparatives.
           The hotter the better.
           The more I think about it, the weaker it looks.
           The more money donated, the more books purchased, and the more happy children.
           It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.
     12. adv. 1=With a comparative, and often withfor it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated withnone.
           It was a difficult time, but I’m the wiser for it.
           It was a difficult time, and I’m none the wiser for it.
           I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.
manager
     1. n. (management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.
     2. n. (baseball) The head coach.
     3. n. (computer software) A window or application whose purpose is to give the user the control over some aspect of the system.
           a file manager; a task manager; Program Manager
of
     1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
     2. prep.          (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
     3. prep.          (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
     4. prep.          From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
                    There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
     5. prep.          (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
                    What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
     6. prep. Expressing separation.
     7. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
                    Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
     8. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
                    He seemed devoid of human feelings.
     9. prep.          (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
     10. prep. Expressing origin.
     11. prep.          (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
                    The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
     12. prep.          (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
                    The invention was born of necessity.
     13. prep.          (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
                    It is said that she died of a broken heart.
     14. prep.          (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
                    I am tired of all this nonsense.
     15. prep. Expressing agency.
     16. prep.          (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
                    I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
     17. prep.          (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
                    The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
     18. prep.          (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
                    It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
     19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
     20. prep.          (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
                    Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
     21. prep.          (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
                    She wore a dress of silk.
     22. prep.          (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
                    What a lot of nonsense!
     23. prep.          (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
                   Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
     24. prep.          (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
                    I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
     25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
     26. prep.          (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
                    I'm always thinking of you.
     27. prep.          (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
                    He told us the story of his journey to India.
     28. prep.          (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
                    This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
     29. prep. Having partitive effect.
     30. prep.          (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
                    Most of these apples are rotten.
     31. prep.          (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
     32. prep.          (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
                    On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
     33. prep.          (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
                    He is a friend of mine.
     34. prep. Expressing possession.
     35. prep.          Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
                    He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
     36. prep.          Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
                    The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
     37. prep.          Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
                    Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
     38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
     39. prep.          (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
                    She had a profound distrust of the police.
     40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
     41. prep.          (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
                    My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
     42. prep.          (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
                    Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
     43. prep.          (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
                    We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
     44. prep.          (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
                    It's not that big of a deal.
     45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
     46. prep.          (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
                    Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
     47. prep.          (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
                    I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
     48. prep.          (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
                    After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
a
     1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
           There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
     2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
           I've seen it happen a hundred times.
     3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
           We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
     4. art. The same; one.
           We are of a mind on matters of morals.
     5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
           A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
           He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
     6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
     7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
           The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
     8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
           Stand a tiptoe.
     9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
           Torn a pieces.
     10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
           I brush my teeth twice a day.
     11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
     12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
           A God’s name.
     13. prep. To do with status; In.
           King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
             To set the people a worke.
     14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
           1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
             The times, they are a-changin'.
     15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
           1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
             Jacob, when he was a dying
     16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
     17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
           I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
     18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
     19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
     20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
           The name of John a Gaunt.
     21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
     22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
medieval
     1. adj. Of or relating to the Middle Ages, the period from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
     2. adj. Having characteristics associated with the Middle Ages in popular, modern cultural perception:
     3. adj.          Archaic.
     4. adj.          Brutal.
     5. n. Someone living in the Middle Ages.
     6. n. A medieval example (of something aforementioned or understood from context).
manor
     1. n. A landed estate.
     2. n. The main house of such an estate or a similar residence; a mansion.
     3. n. A district over which a feudal lord could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
     4. n. The lord's residence and seat of control in such a district.
     5. n. (slang) Any home area or territory in which authority is exercised, often in a police or criminal context.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1559330/Terror-raids-on-homes-of-uranium-ex-employee.ht
     6. n. (London, slang) One's neighbourhood.
charged
     1. v. simple past tense and past participle of charge
     charge
          1. n. The scope of someone's responsibility.
                The child was in the nanny's charge.
          2. n. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher.
                The child was a charge of the nanny.
          3. n. A load or burden; cargo.
                The ship had a charge of colonists and their belongings.
          4. n. The amount of money levied for a service.
                There will be a charge of five dollars.
          5. n. An instruction.
                I gave him the charge to get the deal closed by the end of the month.
          6. n. (military) A ground attack against a prepared enemy.
                Pickett did not die leading his famous charge.
          7. n. An accusation.
                That's a slanderous charge of abuse of trust.
          8. n. (physics, and chemistry) An electric charge.
          9. n. (basketball) An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender.
          10. n. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge.
          11. n. (heraldry) An image displayed on an escutcheon.
          12. n. A forceful forward movement.
          13. n. (weaponry) A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack.
                to bring a weapon to the charge
          14. n. (farriery) A sort of plaster or ointment.
          15. n. (obsolete) Weight; import; value.
          16. n. (historical, or obsolete) A measure of thirty-six pigs of lead, each pig weighing about seventy pounds; a charre.
          17. n. (ecclesiastical) An address given at a church service concluding a visitation.
          18. v. To assign a duty or responsibility to.
          19. v. To assign (a debit) to an account.
                Let's charge this to marketing.
          20. v. To pay on account, as by using a credit card.
                Can I charge my purchase to my credit card?
                Can I charge this purchase?
          21. v. To require payment (of) (a price or fee, for goods, services, etc.).
                to charge high for goods   I won't charge you for the wheat
          22. v. (possibly archaic) To sell at a given price.
                to charge coal at $5 per unit
          23. v. (law) To formally accuse (a person) of a crime.
                I'm charging you with assault and battery.
          24. v. To impute or ascribe.
          25. v. To call to account; to challenge.
          26. v. To place a burden or load on or in.
          27. v.          To ornament with or cause to bear.
                         to charge an architectural member with a moulding
          28. v.          (heraldry) To assume as a bearing.
                         He charges three roses.
          29. v.          (heraldry) To add to or represent on.
                         He charges his shield with three roses or.
          30. v. To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.
                Charge your weapons; we're moving up.
          31. v.          To cause to take on an electric charge.
                         Rubbing amber with wool will charge it quickly.
          32. v.          To add energy to (a battery, or a device containing a battery).
                         He charged the battery overnight.
                         Don't forget to charge the drill.
                         I charge my phone every night.
          33. v.          (intransitive) (Of a battery or a device containing a battery) To gain energy.
                         The battery is still charging: I can't use it yet.
                         His cell phone charges very quickly, whereas mine takes forever.
          34. v. (intransitive) To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat and/or on horseback.
          35. v.          (military, transitive and intransitive) To attack by moving forward quickly in a group.
                         The impetuous corps charged the enemy lines.
          36. v.          (basketball) To commit a charging foul.
          37. v.          (cricket, of a batsman) To take a few steps down the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or
          38. v. (transitive, of a hunting dog) To lie on the belly and be still (A command given by a hunter to a dog).
with
     1. prep. Against.
           He picked a fight with the class bully.
     2. prep. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
           He went with his friends.
     3. prep. In addition to; as an accessory to.
           She owns a motorcycle with a sidecar.
     4. prep. Used to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
     5. prep. In support of.
           We are with you all the way.
     6. prep. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
           slain with robbers
     7. prep. Using as an instrument; by means of.
           cut with a knife
     8. prep. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
     9. prep. Having, owning.
     10. adv. Along, together with others, in a group, etc.
           Do you want to come with?
     11. adv. -->
     12. n. alternative form of withe
collecting
     1. n. A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
     2. v. present participle of collect
     collect
          1. v. To gather together; amass.
                Suzanne collected all the papers she had laid out.
                The team uses special equipment to collect data on temperature, wind speed and rainfall.
          2. v. To get; particularly, get from someone.
                A bank collects a monthly payment on a client's new car loan.   A mortgage company collects a monthly payment on a house.
          3. v. To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation.
                John Henry collects stamps.
                I don't think he collects as much as hoards.
          4. v. (transitive, now rare) To form a conclusion; to deduce, infer. (Compare gather, get.)
          5. v. (intransitive, often with on or against) To collect payments.
                He had a lot of trouble collecting on that bet he made.
          6. v. (intransitive) To come together in a group or mass.
                The rain collected in puddles.
          7. v. To infer; to conclude.
          8. v. (transitive, of a vehicle or driver) To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle).
                The truck veered across the central reservation and collected a car that was travelling in the opposite direction.
          9. adj. To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment.
                It was to be a collect delivery, but no-one was available to pay.
          10. adv. With payment due from the recipient.
                I had to call collect.
          11. n. (sometimes capitalized)
          12. n. (Christianity) The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer.
                He used the day's collect as the basis of his sermon.
its
     1. det. Belonging to it.
     2. pron. The one (or ones) belonging to it.
     3. n. plural of it
rents
     1. n. plural of rent
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of rent
     3. n. alternative spelling of 'rents
     rent
          1. n. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
          2. n. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
          3. n. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
                A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
          4. n. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
          5. n. (obsolete) Income; revenue.
          6. v. To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
          7. v. To grant occupation in return for rent.
          8. v. To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
          9. v. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
                The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
          10. n. A tear or rip in some surface.
          11. n. A division or schism.
          12. v. simple past tense and past participle of rend
etc
     1. adv. alternative form of etc.
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