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Brickbat

A piece or fragment of a brick. See Bat, 4.

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Criticism 76% connected

The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a l…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fragment 76% connected

A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

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-ment unknown · 78% connection

A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that w…

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Anecdote noun · 78% connection

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private l…

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Angle noun · 78% connection

A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.

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Avulsion noun · 78% connection

A fragment torn off.

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Bone noun · 78% connection

One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony subs…

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Brick noun · 78% connection

Bricks, collectively, as designating that kind of material; as, a load of brick; a thousand of brick.

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Cantle noun · 78% connection

A corner or edge of anything; a piece; a fragment; a part.

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Cantlet noun · 78% connection

A piece; a fragment; a corner.

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Chip noun · 78% connection

A fragment or piece broken off; a small piece.

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Chipping noun · 78% connection

A chip; a piece separated by a cutting or graving instrument; a fragment.

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Clast noun · 78% connection

(geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock

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Cleavage noun · 78% connection

The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive a…

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Closer noun · 78% connection

The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course.

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Clout noun · 78% connection

A piece; a fragment.

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Coal noun · 78% connection

A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance; charcoal.

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Crumb noun · 78% connection

A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

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Culpon noun · 78% connection

A shred; a fragment; a strip of wood.

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Decerption noun · 78% connection

That which is plucked off or rent away; a fragment; a piece.

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