State

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·noun Estate, possession.

II. State ·noun A person of high rank.

III. State ·adj Stately.

IV. State ·noun The principal persons in a government.

V. State ·noun Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

VI. State ·adj Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

VII. State ·noun Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

VIII. State ·noun A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

IX. State ·noun A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.

X. State ·noun The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

XI. State ·noun The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

XII. State ·noun Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

XIII. State ·vt To Set; to Settle; to Establish.

XIV. State ·noun A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

XV. State ·noun A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.

XVI. State ·noun Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.

XVII. State ·vt To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to Narrate; to Recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, ·etc.

XVIII. State ·noun Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. ·cf. Estate, ·noun, 6.

XIX. State ·noun In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.

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To lie in state; to be in bed with three harlots. ...

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Badger State
·add. ·- Wisconsin; — a nickname. ...

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Bay State
·add. ·- Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; — a nickname. ...

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Bayou State
·add. ·- Mississippi; — a nickname, from its numerous bayous. ...

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Bear State
·add. ·- Arkansas; — a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests. ...

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Beaver State
·add. ·- Oregon; — a nickname. ...

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Blackwater State
·add. ·- Nebraska; — a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the p...

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Centennial State
·add. ·- Colorado; — a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the cente...

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Chinook State
·add. ·- Washington — a nickname. ·see <<Chinook>>, ·noun. ...

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Cotton State
·add. ·- Alabama; — a nickname. ...

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Coyote State
·add. ·- South Dakota; — a nickname. ...

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Cracker State
·add. ·- Georgia; — a nickname. ·see <<Cracker>>, ·noun 5. ...

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Creole State
·add. ·- Louisiana; — a nickname. ·see <<Creole>>, ·noun & a. ...

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Diamond State
·add. ·- Delaware; — a nickname alluding to its small size. ...

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Empire State
·add. ·- New York; — a nickname alluding to its size and wealth. ...

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Evergreen State
·add. ·- Washington; — a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees. ...

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Flower State
·add. ·- Florida; — a nickname, alluding to sense of ·Lat. floridus, from florida flowery. ·see <<F...

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Golden State
·add. ·- California; — a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits. ...

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Gopher State
·add. ·- Minnesota; — a nickname alluding to the abundance of gophers. ...

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Granite State
·- New Hampshire; — a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite. II. Granit...

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Hawkeye State
·add. ·- Iowa; — a nickname of obscure origin. ...

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Hoosier State
·add. ·- Indiana; — a nickname of obscure origin. ...

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Keystone State
·add. ·- Pennsylvania; — a nickname alluding to its having been the central one of the 13 original ...

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Lumber State
·add. ·- Maine; — a nickname. ...

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Mountain State
·add. ·- Montana; — a nickname. ...

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Palmetto State
·add. ·- South California; — a nickname alluding to the State Arms, which contain a representation ...

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Panhandle State
·add. ·- West Virginia; — a nickname. ...

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Pelican State
·add. ·- Louisiana; — a nickname alluding to the device on its seal. ...

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Peninsula State
·add. ·- Florida; — a nickname. ...

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Prairie State
·add. ·- Illinois; — a nickname. ...

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Sagebrush State
·add. ·- Nevada; — a nickname. ...

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Silver State
·add. ·- Nevada; — a nickname alluding to its silver mines. ...

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Sioux State
·add. ·- North Dakota; — a nickname. ...

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Sooner State
·add. ·- Oklahoma; — a nickname. ...

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State socialism
·add. ·- A form of socialism, ·esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of privat...

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Sucker State
·add. ·- Illinois; — a nickname. ...

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Sunflower State
·add. ·- Kansas; a nickname. ...

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Turpentine State
·add. ·- North Carolina; — a nickname alluding to its extensive production of turpentine. ...

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Volunteer State
·add. ·- Tennessee; — a nickname. ...

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Wolverene State
·add. ·- Michigan; — a nickname. ...

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bay state
The State of Massachusetts. The original name of the Colony was Massachusetts Bay. Hence, among the ...

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bear state
A name by which the State of Arkansas is known at the West. I once asked a Western man if Arkansas a...

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bullion state
The State of Missouri; so called in consequence of the exertions made by its Senator, Mr. Benton, in...

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empire state
The State of New York; so called from the enterprise of its people, its wealth, population, extent o...

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granite state
The State of New Hampshire, so called from the abundance of this material found in it. ...

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keystone state
The State of Pennsylvania. So called from its being the central State of the Union at the time of th...

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palmetto state
The State or capital of South Carolina; so called from the arms of the State, which contain a palmet...

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state-room
A small room in a ship or steam-vessel for one or two passengers.--Worcester. ...

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state-room
A sleeping cabin, or small berth, detached from the main cabin of merchantmen or saloon of passenger...

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Big Bend State
·add. ·- Tennessee; — a nickname. ...

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Blue Hen State
·add. ·- The State of Delaware; — a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to...

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Blue-grass State
·add. ·- The Sate of Kentucky; — a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses ar...

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Lone-Star State
·add. ·- Texas; — a nickname alluding to the single star on its coat of arms, being the device used...

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North Star State
·add. ·- Minnesota; — a nickname. ...

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Old Line State
·add. ·- Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's ...

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Pine-tree State
·add. ·- Maine; — a nickname alluding to the pine tree in its coat of arms. ...

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green mountain state
The State of Vermont. ...

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Empire State of the South
·add. ·- Georgia; — a nickname. ...

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Empire State of the West
·add. ·- Missouri; — a nickname. ...

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