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Cement

Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

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Adhesive 76% connected

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

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Bind 76% connected

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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Coat 76% connected

An outer garment fitting the upper part of the body; especially, such a garment worn by men.

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Concrete 76% connected

United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.

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Fasten 76% connected

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Filling 76% connected

of Fill

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Fix 76% connected

Fixed; solidified.

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Secure 76% connected

Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

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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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Glue 76% connected

A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid…

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Gum 76% connected

The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.

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Mastic 76% connected

A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; --…

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Mucilage 76% connected

A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.

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Portland cement 76% connected

A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certa…

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Putty 76% connected

A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence…

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Containing substance 2

Concrete 70% connected

United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.

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Mortar 70% connected

A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.

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Containing whole 1

Root 70% connected

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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