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Cartoon

A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

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Anime 76% connected

Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Funnies 76% connected

of Funny

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 6

Draw 76% connected

To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Humour 76% connected

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

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Wit 76% connected

of Wit

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Witticism 76% connected

A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.

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Wittiness 76% connected

The quality of being witty.

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Cartoonist 74% connected

One skilled in drawing cartoons.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Cartoonist 74% connected

One skilled in drawing cartoons.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Containing whole 1

Publication 70% connected

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulg…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 2

Sketch 92% connected

An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a repres…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Toon 92% connected

pl. of Toe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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