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Toning
(gcide) | Tone \Tone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Toning.]
1. To utter with an affected tone.
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2. To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See
Tune, v. t.
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3. (Photog.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required
shade of color, as by chemical treatment.
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To tone down.
(a) To cause to give lower tone or sound; to give a lower
tone to.
(b) (Paint.) To modify, as color, by making it less
brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition
of color, by making it more harmonius.
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Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly. --C.
Kingsley.
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(c) Fig.: To moderate or relax; to diminish or weaken the
striking characteristics of; to soften.
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The best method for the purpose in hand was to
employ some one of a character and position
suited to get possession of their confidence,
and then use it to tone down their religious
strictures. --Palfrey.
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To tone up, to cause to give a higher tone or sound; to
give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten;
to strengthen.
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intoning
(encz) | intoning, |
stoning
(encz) | stoning,kamenování n: Zdeněk Brožstoning,odpeckování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Atoning
(gcide) | Atone \A*tone"\ ([.a]*t[=o]n"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Atoned; p.
pr. & vb. n. Atoning.] [From at one,, i. e., to be, or
cause to be, at one. See At one.]
1. To agree; to be in accordance; to accord. [Obs.]
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He and Aufidius can no more atone
Than violentest contrariety. --Shak.
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2. To stand as an equivalent; to make reparation,
compensation, or amends, for an offense or a crime.
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The murderer fell, and blood atoned for blood.
--Pope.
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The ministry not atoning for their former conduct by
any wise or popular measure. --Junius.
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Buttoning
(gcide) | Button \But"ton\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buttoned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Buttoning.] [OE. botonen, OF. botoner, F. boutonner. See
Button, n.]
1. To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make
secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
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He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to
the throat in a tight green coat. --Dickens.
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2. To dress or clothe. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Cantoning
(gcide) | Canton \Can"ton\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cantoned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Cantoning.] [Cf. F.cantonner.]
1. To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or
separate, as a distinct portion or division.
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They canton out themselves a little Goshen in the
intellectual world. --Locke.
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2. (Mil.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different
parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.
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Huttoning
(gcide) | Huttoning \Hut"ton*ing\, n. [So named after two English
bonesetters, Richard and Robert Hutton, who made it a part of
their method.] (Med.)
Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful
joint.
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Intoning
(gcide) | Intone \In*tone"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intoned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Intoning.] [LL. intonare, intonatum; pref. in- in + L.
tonus tone. See Tone and cf. Entune, Intonate.]
1. To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to
chant; as, to intone the church service.
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2. To speak with a distinctive or unusual tone in the voice,
or in a monotone; as, the professor intoned his lectures
as though by rote.
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Stoning
(gcide) | Stone \Stone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stoning.] [From Stone, n.: cf. AS. st?nan, Goth.
stainjan.]
1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.
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And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and
saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. --Acts vii.
59.
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2. To make like stone; to harden.
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O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart. --Shak.
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3. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to
stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.
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4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with
stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.
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5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.
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Wantoning
(gcide) | Wanton \Wan"ton\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wantoned; p. pr. & vb.
n. Wantoning.]
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1. To rove and ramble without restraint, rule, or limit; to
revel; to play loosely; to frolic.
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Nature here wantoned as in her prime. --Milton.
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How merrily we would sally into the fields, and
strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton
like young dace in the streams! --Lamb.
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2. To sport in lewdness; to play the wanton; to play
lasciviously.
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stoning
(wn) | stoning
n 1: the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by
throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) [syn:
stoning, lapidation] |
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