What is to rise upright. [Obs.] By wet, stalks do erect. Bacon called?
erect — To rise upright. [Obs.] By wet, stalks do erect. Bacon. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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