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Board

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

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Manner of action 5

Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Embark 76% connected

To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.

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Entrain 76% connected

To draw along as a current does; as, water entrained by steam.

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Ship 76% connected

Pay; reward.

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Broader term 18

Cater 76% connected

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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Commission 76% connected

The act of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating.

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Committee 76% connected

One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collecti…

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Display 76% connected

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Dwell 76% connected

To delay; to linger.

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Enter 76% connected

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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Fare 76% connected

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

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Inhabit 76% connected

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Lumber 76% connected

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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Populate 76% connected

Populous.

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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Sheet 76% connected

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Table 76% connected

A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

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Timber 76% connected

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred…

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Checkerboard 76% connected

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

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Dashboard 76% connected

A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vehicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- i…

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Directorate 76% connected

The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.

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Fascia 76% connected

A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

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Hawk 76% connected

One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the prominent tooth and…

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Kneeler 76% connected

One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling.

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Palette 76% connected

A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments.

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Pallet 76% connected

A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.

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Planchette 76% connected

A circumferentor. See Circumferentor.

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Sideboard 76% connected

A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

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Skid 76% connected

A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a…

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Springboard 76% connected

An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

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Strake 76% connected

imp. of Strike.

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Trencher 76% connected

One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

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Triclinium 76% connected

A couch for reclining at meals, extending round three sides of a table, and usually in three parts.

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Wale 76% connected

A streak or mark made on the skin by a rod or whip; a stripe; a wheal. See Wheal.

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Boarder 74% connected

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

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Boarder 74% connected

One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.

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Lodger 74% connected

One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

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Lodger 74% connected

One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.

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Entails 6

Consume 72% connected

To destroy, as by decomposition, dissipation, waste, or fire; to use up; to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour.

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Feed 72% connected

of Fee

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Give 72% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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have 72% connected

of Have

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Ingest 72% connected

To take into, or as into, the stomach or alimentary canal.

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Take 72% connected

Taken.

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Member part 1

Director 70% connected

One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

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Component part 1

Knot 70% connected

A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.

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Synonym 5

Card 92% connected

A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game play…

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Panel 92% connected

A sunken compartment with raised margins, molded or otherwise, as in ceilings, wainscotings, etc.

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Plank 92% connected

A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

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Room 92% connected

Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a ho…

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Table 92% connected

A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

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