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Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Arrack
noun · 78% connection
A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Basil
noun · 78% connection
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Bethabara wood
unknown · 78% connection
A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree is unknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Broadleaf
noun · 78% connection
A tree (Terminalia latifolia) of Jamaica, the wood of which is used for boards, scantling, shingles, etc; -- sometimes called the almo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Catalpa
noun · 78% connection
A genus of American and East Indian trees, of which the best know species are the Catalpa bignonioides, a large, ornamental North Amer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Catechu
noun · 78% connection
East Indian spiny tree having twice-pinnate leaves and yellow flowers followed by flat pods; source of black catechu
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Clam
verb · 78% connection
A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Dark
adjective · 78% connection
Destitute, or partially destitute, of light; not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
East
adjective · 78% connection
Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Fish
verb · 78% connection
To strengthen (a beam, mast, etc.), or unite end to end (two timbers, railroad rails, etc.) by bolting a plank, timber, or plate to th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Futtock
noun · 78% connection
One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked trans…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Glance
noun · 78% connection
A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Gurjun
noun · 78% connection
A thin balsam or wood oil derived from the Diptcrocarpus laevis, an East Indian tree. It is used in medicine, and as a substitute for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Horsewood
noun · 78% connection
A West Indian tree (Calliandra latifolia) with showy, crimson blossoms.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Indian
adjective · 78% connection
Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Jacaranda
noun · 78% connection
an important Brazilian timber tree yielding a heavy hard dark-colored wood streaked with black
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
Keelson
noun · 78% connection
A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, given, several, dark-colored, timbers.
