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Blood

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.

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Daub 76% connected

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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Debauchee 76% connected

One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Genealogy 76% connected

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succ…

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Humor 76% connected

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

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Humour 76% connected

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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Libertine 76% connected

A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Rounder 76% connected

One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.

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Smear 76% connected

To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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Temperament 76% connected

Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

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Family 76% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Folk 76% connected

Alt. of Folks

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Gore 76% connected

Dirt; mud.

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Grume 76% connected

A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood.

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Kinsfolk 76% connected

Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.

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Lifeblood 76% connected

The blood necessary to life; vital blood.

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Phratry 76% connected

A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

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Sept 76% connected

A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

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Side 76% connected

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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Bloody 74% connected

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

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Bloody 74% connected

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

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Corpuscle 70% connected

A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

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Serum 70% connected

The watery portion of certain animal fluids, as blood, milk, etc.

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Ancestry 92% connected

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

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Descent 92% connected

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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Line 92% connected

Flax; linen.

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Lineage 92% connected

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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Origin 92% connected

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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Parentage 92% connected

Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble par…

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Pedigree 92% connected

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

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Profligate 92% connected

Overthrown; beaten; conquered.

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Rake 92% connected

An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…

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Rakehell 92% connected

A lewd, dissolute fellow; a debauchee; a rake.

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Rip 92% connected

A wicker fish basket.

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Roue 92% connected

One devoted to a life of sensual pleasure; a debauchee; a rake.

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Stemma 92% connected

One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.

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Stock 92% connected

The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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