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Blade

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Arm 76% connected

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

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Foliage 76% connected

Leaves, collectively, as produced or arranged by nature; leafage; as, a tree or forest of beautiful foliage.

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Leaf 76% connected

A colored, usually green, expansion growing from the side of a stem or rootstock, in which the sap for the use of the plant is elaborated under the i…

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Leafage 76% connected

Leaves, collectively; foliage.

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Ribbon 76% connected

A fillet or narrow woven fabric, commonly of silk, used for trimming some part of a woman's attire, for badges, and other decorative purposes.

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Runner 76% connected

One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Thread 76% connected

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or mo…

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Weapon 76% connected

An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring…

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Younker 76% connected

A young person; a stripling; a yonker.

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Youth 76% connected

of Youth

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Backsword 76% connected

A sword with one sharp edge.

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Broadsword 76% connected

A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore.

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Cutlass 76% connected

A short, heavy, curving sword, used in the navy. See Curtal ax.

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Falchion 76% connected

A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.

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Impeller 76% connected

One who, or that which, impels.

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Paddle 76% connected

To use the hands or fingers in toying; to make caressing strokes.

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Rapier 76% connected

A straight sword, with a narrow and finely pointed blade, used only for thrusting.

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Saber 76% connected

Alt. of Sabre

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Sabre 76% connected

A sword with a broad and heavy blade, thick at the back, and usually more or less curved like a scimiter; a cavalry sword.

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Tuck 76% connected

A long, narrow sword; a rapier.

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Vane 76% 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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Web 76% connected

A weaver.

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Containing whole 15

Ax 70% connected

Alt. of Axe

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Axe 70% connected

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wield…

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Brand 70% connected

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Chopper 70% connected

One who, or that which, chops.

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Chuck 70% connected

To make a noise resembling that of a hen when she calls her chickens; to cluck.

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Knife 70% connected

An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and…

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Mower 70% connected

One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.

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Oar 70% connected

An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the…

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Propeller 70% connected

One who, or that which, propels.

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Scissors 70% connected

A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are…

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Spatula 70% connected

An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, et…

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Steel 70% connected

A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one…

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Sword 70% connected

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, r…

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Turbine 70% connected

A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by i…

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Windmill 70% connected

A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft.

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Foible 70% connected

Weak; feeble.

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Forte 70% connected

The strong point; that in which one excels.

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Haft 70% connected

A handle; that part of an instrument or vessel taken into the hand, and by which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; t…

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Helve 70% connected

The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.

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Hilt 70% connected

A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.

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Peak 70% connected

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Point 70% connected

To appoint.

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Tip 70% connected

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Brand 92% connected

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Steel 92% connected

A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one…

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Sword 92% connected

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, r…

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Vane 92% 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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