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Constellation

A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included.

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Design 76% connected

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

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Plan 76% connected

A draught or form; properly, a representation drawn on a plane, as a map or a chart; especially, a top view, as of a machine, or the representation o…

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Redundancy 76% connected

The quality or state of being redundant; superfluity; superabundance; excess.

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Topology 76% connected

The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

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Constellate 74% connected

To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.

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Constellate 74% connected

To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.

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Dot 74% connected

A marriage portion; dowry.

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Dot 74% connected

A marriage portion; dowry.

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Flock 74% connected

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…

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Flock 74% connected

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Asterism 70% connected

A constellation.

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Star 70% connected

One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae.

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Configuration 92% connected

Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.

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