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Balking

BALK'ING, ppr. Plowing in ridges; frustrating.

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BALK'ING, ppr. Plowing in ridges; frustrating.

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Balk

BALK, n. bauk. 1. A ridge of land, left unplowed, between furrows, or at the end of a field. 2. A great beam, or rafter. 3. Any thing left untouched, like a ridge in plowing. 4. A frustration; disappointment....

B is the second letter, and the first articulation, or consonant, in the English, as in the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and most other alphabets. In the Ethiopic, it is the ninth letter, and its shape is that of a h...

Balked

BALK'ED, pp. Plowed in ridges between furrows, as in American husbandry. 2. Frustrated; disappointed.

Balker

BALK'ER, n. One who balks. In fishery, balkers are persons who stand on rocks and eminences to espy the sholes of herring, and to give notice to the men in boats, which way they pass.

A is the first letter of the Alphabet in most of the known languages of the earth; in the Ethiopic, however it is the thirteenth, and in the Runic the tenth. It is naturally the first letter, because it repres...

AL, in Arabic, an adjective or inseparable prefix. Its use is to render nouns definite, like the English the; as, alkoran, the koran or the book by eminence; alcove, alchimy, alembic, almanac, _c. AL, In Engli...

G, the seventh letter and the fifth articulation of the English Alphabet, is derived to us, through the Latin and Greek, from the Assyrian languages; it being found in the Chaldee, Syriac, Hebrew, Samaritan, P...

I is the ninth letter,and the third vowel of the English Alphabet. We receive it through the Latin and Greek from the Shemitic jod,je, or ye, in Greek iwra,whence our English word jot. The vowel in French, and...

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