to pluck up

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	To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up a plant; to pluck up a nation
	To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage. - Jer. xii. 17.

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The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.

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