Confabulate: alternatives and connections

To talk or confer secretly and confidentially; to converse, especially with evil intentions; to plot mischief.

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The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

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To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

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The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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To break to pieces; to shatter.

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To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

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To come or light upon; to meet; to find.

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The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.

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To advance; to travel.

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Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

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Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.

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One who chaffs.

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To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse without form or ceremony; to gossip.

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To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

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Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.

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See Clover.

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Familiar talk or conversation.

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To bring together for comparison; to compare.

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To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.

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A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

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To find fault; to be peevish.

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To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

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