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Caput

The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

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Bulge 76% connected

The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Excrescence 76% connected

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a tr…

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Extrusion 76% connected

The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.

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Hump 76% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

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Jut 76% connected

To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

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Prominence 76% connected

Alt. of Prominency

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Protrusion 76% connected

The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.

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Protuberance 76% connected

That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or kno…

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Swelling 76% connected

of Swell

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Containing whole 6

Animal 70% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Beast 70% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Body 70% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Brute 70% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Creature 70% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Fauna 70% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Component part 7

Brain 70% connected

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous…

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Ear 70% connected

The organ of hearing; the external ear.

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Encephalon 70% connected

The contents of the cranium; the brain.

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Face 70% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Muzzle 70% connected

The projecting mouth and nose of a quadruped, as of a horse; a snout.

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Skull 70% connected

A school, company, or shoal.

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Temple 70% connected

A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

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Head 92% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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