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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Hector  \Hec"tor\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Hectored};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Hectoring}.] 
  To  treat  with  insolence;  to  threaten;  to  bully;  hence  to 
  torment  by  words  to  tease;  to  taunt;  to  worry  or  irritate  by 
  bullying.  --Dryden. 




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