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Beagle

A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.

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Hound 76% connected

A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but a…

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Accent noun · 78% connection

A mark used to denote feet and inches; as, 6' 10'' is six feet ten inches.

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Amphisbaena noun · 78% connection

A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at ea…

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Appendicularia noun · 78% connection

A genus of small free-swimming Tunicata, shaped somewhat like a tadpole, and remarkable for resemblances to the larvae of other Tunica…

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Arachnida n. pl. · 78% connection

One of the classes of Arthropoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

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Ascidioidea n. pl. · 78% connection

A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike st…

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Auricularia n. pl. · 78% connection

A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

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Bearhound noun · 78% connection

A hound for baiting or hunting bears.

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Bedbug noun · 78% connection

A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in…

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Boa constrictor unknown · 78% connection

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

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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,…

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Bowie knife unknown · 78% connection

A knife with a strong blade from ten to fifteen inches long, and double-edged near the point; -- used as a hunting knife, and formerly…

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Brachyura n. pl. · 78% connection

A group of decapod Crustacea, including the common crabs, characterized by a small and short abdomen, which is bent up beneath the lar…

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Branchiostegal noun · 78% connection

A branchiostegal ray. See Illustration of Branchial arches in Appendix.

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Branchiostege unknown · 78% connection

The branchiostegal membrane. See Illustration in Appendix.

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Breastplate noun · 78% connection

A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span…

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Buckhound noun · 78% connection

A hound for hunting deer.

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Catboat noun · 78% connection

A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustrat…

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Checkers verb · 78% connection

A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved di…

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