to resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle
to make a judgment, especially after deliberation
to cause someone to come to a decision
To shape something before some other operation.
The rough, incomplete and unused basic form of a stone tool.
An object that has undergone preliminary shaping but is not yet in its final form.
A word that is no longer in use, but has been reconstructed from current ones.