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Biscuit

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

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Brownie 76% connected

An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweepi…

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Kiss 76% connected

To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc.

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Macaroon 76% connected

A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Wafer 76% connected

A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.

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Cake 76% connected

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

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Cookie 92% connected

See Cooky.

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Cooky 92% connected

A small, flat, sweetened cake of various kinds.

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-ation unknown · 78% connection

A suffix forming nouns of action, and often equivalent to the verbal substantive in -ing. It sometimes has the further meanings of sta…

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Amphibole noun · 78% connection

A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, general…

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Bake verb · 78% connection

To be baked; to become dry and hard in heat; as, the bread bakes; the ground bakes in the hot sun.

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Bittersweet adjective · 78% connection

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

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Borecole noun · 78% connection

A brassicaceous plant of many varieties, cultivated for its leaves, which are not formed into a compact head like the cabbage, but are…

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Box noun · 78% connection

A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world. The common box (Buxus sempervirens) has two varieties, one of which, the…

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Carnation noun · 78% connection

Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

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Charlotte noun · 78% connection

A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices of bread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked.

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Chrysanthemum noun · 78% connection

A genus of composite plants, mostly perennial, and of many species including the many varieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and p…

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Crust noun · 78% connection

The hard exterior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.

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Fanciful adjective · 78% connection

Full of fancy; guided by fancy, rather than by reason and experience; whimsical; as, a fanciful man forms visionary projects.

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Fancy adjective · 78% connection

Adapted to please the fancy or taste; ornamental; as, fancy goods.

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Fantasy verb · 78% connection

To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy.

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Flat adjective · 78% connection

commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market"

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Gillyflower noun · 78% connection

Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors

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Gyrfalcon noun · 78% connection

One of several species and varieties of large Arctic falcons, esp. Falco rusticolus and the white species F. Islandicus, both of which…

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Hard superl. · 78% connection

Difficult to bear or endure; not easy to put up with or consent to; hence, severe; rigorous; oppressive; distressing; unjust; grasping…

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Hogmanay noun · 78% connection

The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; als…

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