tamper
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Tamper with the tag and the ink spills, staining the fabric and perhaps a finger or two.
From Time Magazine Archive
That must be what is down on the map as Tamper Clove," said Madge; "and do you know, some think that it was up that valley Irving made poor Rip carry the heavy keg?
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Roe, Edward Payson
He is suppos'd to be brought up in the lonely Cave with Paplet; and his natural Tamper is wild and excessive brisk; hating the House, and delighting in Hunting.
From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas
Tamper, tam′pėr, v.i. to try the temper of: to try little experiments without necessity or authority: to meddle: to practise secretly and unfairly.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Tamper no longer with the bow, but leave 330 The matter with the Gods, who shall decide The strife to-morrow, fav’ring whom they will.
From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William
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