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[.] 'AFTER-HOPE, n. Future hope.

[.] HOPE, n. [L. cupio.] [.] 1. A desire of some good, accompanied with at least a slight expectation of obtaining it, or a belief that it is obtainable. Hope differs from wish and desire in this, that it implies some expectation of obtaining the good desired, or the ...

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hoped

[.] HO'PED, pp. Desired with expectation.

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hopeful

[.] HO'PEFUL, a. Having qualities which excite hope; promising or giving ground to expect good or success; as a hopeful youth; a hopeful prospect. [.] 1. Full of hope or desire,with expectation. [.] [.] I was hopeful the success of your first attempts would encourage ...

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hopefully

[.] HO'PEFULLY, adv. In a manner to raise hope; in a way promising good. He prosecutes his scheme hopefully. [.] 1. In a manner to produce a favorable opinion respecting some good at the present time. The young man is hopefully pious. [.] 2. With hope; with ground ...

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hopefulness

[.] HO'PEFULNESS, n. Promise of good; ground to expect what is desirable.

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hopeless

... [.] HO'PELESS, a. Destitute of hope; ...

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hopelessly

[.] HO'PELESSLY, adv. Without hope.

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hopelessness

[.] HO'PELESSNESS, n. A state of being desperate, or affording no hope.

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hoper

[.] HO'PER, n. One that hopes.

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unhoped

[.] UNHO'PED, a. Not hoped for; not so probable as to excite hope. [.] With unhop'd success. [.] Unhoped for, unhoped, as above.

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unhopeful

[.] UNHO'PEFUL, a. Such as leaves no room to hope.

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wanhope

[.] WANHOPE, n. Want of hope. [Not used.]

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importance

IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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fish

FISH, n. [L. piscis.]

1. An animal that lives in water. Fish is a general name for a class of animals subsisting in water, which were distributed by Linne into six orders. They breathe by means of gills, swim by the aid of fins, and are oviparous. Some of them have the skeleton bony, and others cartilaginous. Most of the former have the opening of the gills closed by a peculiar covering, called the gill-lid; many of the latter have no gill-lid, and are hence said to breathe through apertures. Cetaceous animals, as the whale and dolphin, are, in popular language, called fishes, and have been so classed by some naturalists; but they breathe by lungs, and are viviparous, like quadrupeds. The term fish has been also extended to other aquatic animals, such as shell-fish, lobsters, &c. We use fish, in the singular, for fishes in general or the whole race.

2. The flesh of fish, used as food. But we usually apply flesh to land animals.

FISH, v.i.

1. To attempt to catch fish; to be employed in taking fish, by any means, as by angling or drawing nets.

2. To attempt or seek to obtain by artifice, or indirectly to seek to draw forth; as, to fish for compliments.

FISH, v.t.

1. To search by raking or sweeping; as, to fish the jakes for papers.

2. In seamanship, to strengthen, as a mast or yard, with a piece of timber.

3. To catch; draw out or up; as, to fish up a human body when sunk; to fish an anchor.

FISH, n.

1. In ships, a machine to hoist and draw up the flukes of an anchor, towards the top of the bow.

2. A long piece of timber, used to strengthen a lower mast or a yard, when sprung or damaged.

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