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Arrow

A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.

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Butt shaft 76% connected

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow.

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Quarrel 76% connected

An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Missile 76% connected

Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a dista…

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Projectile 76% connected

Projecting or impelling forward; as, a projectile force.

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Arrowhead 70% connected

The head of an arrow.

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Head 70% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Point 70% connected

To appoint.

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Shaft 70% connected

The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

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Vane 70% connected

A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of…

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Pointer 92% connected

One who, or that which, points.

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Apostrophe noun · 78% connection

the mark (‘'’) used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

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Bolt noun · 78% connection

the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door"

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Colon noun · 78% connection

the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted

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Comma noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘,’) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence

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Dash noun · 78% connection

the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door"

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Diagonal noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information

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Eclipsis noun · 78% connection

omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

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Ecphonesis noun · 78% connection

an exclamatory rhetorical device; "exclamation such as ‘O tempore! O mores’"

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Ellipsis noun · 78% connection

omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences

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Em noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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Em quad noun · 78% connection

a quad with a square body; "since ‘em quad’ is hard to distinguish from ‘en quad’, printers sometimes called it a ‘mutton quad’"

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En noun · 78% connection

half the width of an em

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En dash noun · 78% connection

a dash that is one-half the length of an em dash.; "The en dash is commonly used to indicate a closed range of values — a range with c…

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Exclamation noun · 78% connection

an exclamatory rhetorical device; "exclamation such as ‘O tempore! O mores’"

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Exclamation mark noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘!’) used after an exclamation

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Exclamation point noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘!’) used after an exclamation

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Full verb · 78% connection

beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening; "full the cloth"

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Full point noun · 78% connection

a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they…

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Abatis noun · 78% connection

a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed towar…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Abattis noun · 78% connection

a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed towar…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Aim verb · 78% connection

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Arm noun · 78% connection

A weapon of offense or defense; an instrument of warfare; -- commonly in the pl.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Barbed adjective · 78% connection

Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Bolas n. sing. & pl. · 78% connection

A kind of missile weapon consisting of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather co…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Bombardment noun · 78% connection

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or f…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Boomerang noun · 78% connection

A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood,…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Buckshot noun · 78% connection

A coarse leaden shot, larger than swan shot, used in hunting deer and large game.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Canister noun · 78% connection

A kind of case shot for cannon, in which a number of lead or iron balls in layers are inclosed in a case fitting the gun; -- called al…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Charge verb · 78% connection

A position (of a weapon) fitted for attack; as, to bring a weapon to the charge.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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Dart noun · 78% connection

A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: missile, weapon, offense, slender, pointed.
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