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Chandelier

A candlestick, lamp, stand, gas fixture, or the like, having several branches; esp., one hanging from the ceiling.

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Pendant 92% connected

Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardr…

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Pendent 92% connected

Supported from above; suspended; depending; pendulous; hanging; as, a pendent leaf.

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Annexation verb · 78% connection

The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. Bouvier. (b) (Scots Law) The appropriation of lands or rents to the c…

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Bestride verb · 78% connection

To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over

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Bracket noun · 78% connection

A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like.

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Branching adjective · 78% connection

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

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Branchy adjective · 78% connection

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

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Burner noun · 78% connection

The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced.

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Candelabrum noun · 78% connection

A large candlestick, having several branches.

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Canstick noun · 78% connection

Candlestick.

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Caprification noun · 78% connection

The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

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Creeper noun · 78% connection

A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from…

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Curtain noun · 78% connection

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cl…

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Davy lamp unknown · 78% connection

See Safety lamp, under Lamp.

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Face verb · 78% connection

To stand opposite to; to stand with the face or front toward; to front upon; as, the apartments of the general faced the park.

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Faucet noun · 78% connection

A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desire…

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Fixing noun · 78% connection

That which is fixed; a fixture.

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Gas-burner noun · 78% connection

The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

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Girandole noun · 78% connection

An ornamental branched candlestick.

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Guard verb · 78% connection

Any fixture or attachment designed to protect or secure against injury, soiling, or defacement, theft or loss

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