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(ambitransitive, dialect) To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven..
Some traders would give 'em shots, feed 'em dynamite, make these old dead horses spiriten up. Take a piece of a stick of dynamite and mash it up in their feed. They say it'll spiriten 'em up. I've tried it, but I didn't think it done much good.
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Spiriten means (ambitransitive, dialect) To endue, enliven, or raise the spirit of; liven..
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Some traders would give 'em shots, feed 'em dynamite, make these old dead horses spiriten up. Take a piece of a stick of dynamite and mash it up in their feed. They say it'll spiriten 'em up. I've tried it, but I didn't think it done much good.
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