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Cover

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Verb group 38

Breed 84% connected

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

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Breed 84% connected

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

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Brood 84% connected

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

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Brood 84% connected

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

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Compensate 84% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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Compensate 84% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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Comprehend 84% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Comprehend 84% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Continue 84% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

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Continue 84% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

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Deal 84% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Deal 84% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Embrace 84% connected

To fasten on, as armor.

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Embrace 84% connected

To fasten on, as armor.

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Encompass 84% connected

To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a…

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Encompass 84% connected

To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a…

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Extend 84% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Extend 84% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Handle 84% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Handle 84% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Hatch 84% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Hatch 84% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Incubate 84% connected

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

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Incubate 84% connected

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

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Insure 84% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Insure 84% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Overlay 84% connected

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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Overlay 84% connected

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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Plow 84% connected

Alt. of Plough

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Plow 84% connected

Alt. of Plough

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Treat 84% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Treat 84% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Underwrite 84% connected

To write under something else; to subscribe.

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Underwrite 84% connected

To write under something else; to subscribe.

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Broader term 75

Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Adjoin 76% connected

To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.

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Apparel 76% connected

External clothing; vesture; garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array.

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Ascertain 76% connected

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

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Assure 76% connected

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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Bedclothes 76% connected

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.

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Bedding 76% connected

of Bed

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Broach 76% connected

A spit.

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Clothe 76% connected

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.

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Compensate 76% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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Conceal 76% connected

To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

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Concealing 76% connected

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Concealment 76% connected

The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

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Contact 76% connected

A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.

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Control 76% connected

A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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Copulate 76% connected

Joined; associated; coupled.

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Correct 76% connected

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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Counterbalance 76% connected

To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

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Couple 76% connected

That which joins or links two things together; a bond or tie; a coupler.

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Covering 76% connected

of Cover

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Deputize 76% connected

To appoint as one's deputy; to empower to act in one's stead; to depute.

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Dress 76% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Empower 76% connected

To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try an…

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Enclothe 76% connected

To clothe.

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Endow 76% connected

To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to f…

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Endue 76% connected

To invest.

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Enfold 76% connected

To infold. See Infold.

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Ensure 76% connected

To make sure. See Insure.

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Envelop 76% connected

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a…

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Enwrap 76% connected

To envelop. See Inwrap.

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Fire 76% connected

The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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Firing 76% connected

The act of disharging firearms.

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Fulfil 76% connected

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Fulfill 76% connected

To fill up; to make full or complete.

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Garb 76% connected

Clothing in general.

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Garment 76% connected

Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc.

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Gift 76% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Guarantee 76% connected

In law and common usage: A promise to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some duty, in case of the failure of another person,…

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Habilitate 76% connected

Qualified or entitled.

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Hide 76% connected

To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

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Hiding 76% connected

of Hide

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Include 76% connected

To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell.

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Indue 76% connected

To put on, as clothes; to draw on.

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Insure 76% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Invest 76% connected

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

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Lay 76% connected

of Lie, to recline.

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Mate 76% connected

The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, a…

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Multiply 76% connected

To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.

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Pair 76% connected

A number of things resembling one another, or belonging together; a set; as, a pair or flight of stairs. "A pair of beads." Chaucer. Beau. & Fl. "Fou…

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Play 76% connected

To engage in sport or lively recreation; to exercise for the sake of amusement; to frolic; to spot.

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Pose 76% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Position 76% connected

The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.

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Procreate 76% connected

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

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Protect 76% connected

To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children.

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Protection 76% connected

The act of protecting, or the state of being protected; preservation from loss, injury, or annoyance; defense; shelter; as, the weak need protection.

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Put 76% connected

A pit.

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Raiment 76% connected

Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense.

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Recording 76% connected

of Record

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Reproduce 76% connected

To produce again.

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Satisfy 76% connected

In general, to fill up the measure of a want of (a person or a thing); hence, to grafity fully the desire of; to make content; to supply to the full,…

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See 76% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Substitute 76% connected

One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Warrant 76% connected

That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which on…

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Wrap 76% connected

To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

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Afghan 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.

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Bark 76% connected

To strip the bark from; to peel.

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Blanket 76% connected

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as…

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Blind 76% connected

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

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Cap 76% connected

A covering for the head

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Case 76% connected

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Chlamys 76% connected

A loose and flowing outer garment, worn by the ancient Greeks; a kind of cloak.

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Crust 76% connected

The hard external coat or covering of anything; the hard exterior surface or outer shell; an incrustation; as, a crust of snow.

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Eggshell 76% connected

The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.

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Envelope 76% connected

Alt. of Envelop

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Hood 76% connected

State; condition.

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Incrustation 76% connected

The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.

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Indument 76% connected

Plumage; feathers.

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Indusium 76% connected

A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.

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Integument 76% connected

That which naturally invests or covers another thing, as the testa or the tegmen of a seed; specifically (Anat.), a covering which invests the body,…

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Lid 76% connected

That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk.

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Mackinaw 76% connected

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

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Manta 76% connected

See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

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Mantle 76% connected

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

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Perianth 76% connected

The leaves of a flower generally, especially when the calyx and corolla are not readily distinguished.

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Pericarp 76% connected

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

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Peridium 76% connected

The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

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Perigone 76% connected

Any organ inclosing the essential organs of a flower; a perianth.

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Perigonium 76% connected

Same as Perigone.

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Roof 76% connected

The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon t…

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Sac 76% connected

See Sacs.

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Scale 76% connected

The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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Sheath 76% connected

A case for the reception of a sword, hunting knife, or other long and slender instrument; a scabbard.

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Skim 76% connected

To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; t…

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Slough 76% connected

Slow.

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Snowcap 76% connected

A very small humming bird (Microchaera albocoronata) native of New Grenada.

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Stalking-horse 76% connected

A horse, or a figure resembling a horse, behind which a hunter conceals himself from the game he is aiming to kill.

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Test 76% connected

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

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Theca 76% connected

A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

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Vesture 76% connected

A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.

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Aluminize 76% connected

To treat or impregnate with alum; to alum.

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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Bank 76% connected

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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Bark 76% connected

To strip the bark from; to peel.

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Bedaub 76% connected

To daub over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty.

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Beplaster 76% connected

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.

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Besmear 76% connected

To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; to soil.

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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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Blacklead 76% connected

To coat or to polish with black lead.

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Blanket 76% connected

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as…

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Blindfold 76% connected

To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.

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Blinker 76% connected

One who, or that which, blinks.

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Bloody 76% connected

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

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Bread 76% connected

To spread.

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Bridge 76% connected

A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passagewa…

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Brush 76% connected

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…

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Butter 76% connected

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

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Cake 76% connected

A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.

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Canopy 76% connected

A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.

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Canvas 76% connected

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

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Carpet 76% connected

A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together a…

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Clapboard 76% connected

A narrow board, thicker at one edge than at the other; -- used for weatherboarding the outside of houses.

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Cloak 76% connected

A loose outer garment, extending from the neck downwards, and commonly without sleeves. It is longer than a cape, and is worn both by men and by wome…

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Clothe 76% connected

To put garments on; to cover with clothing; to dress.

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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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Coif 76% connected

A cap.

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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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Constellate 76% connected

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

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Course 76% connected

The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.

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Cowl 76% connected

A monk's hood; -- usually attached to the gown. The name was also applied to the hood and garment together.

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Crape 76% connected

A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some cl…

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Crepe 76% connected

Same as Crape.

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Crisscross 76% connected

A mark or cross, as the signature of a person who is unable to write.

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Cross 76% connected

A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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Crown 76% connected

of Crow

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Daub 76% connected

To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear.

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Discourse 76% connected

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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Discuss 76% connected

To break to pieces; to shatter.

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Dot 76% connected

A marriage portion; dowry.

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Drape 76% connected

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

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Drive 76% connected

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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Drown 76% connected

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water.

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Dust 76% connected

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portion…

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Enclose 76% connected

To inclose. See Inclose.

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Enfold 76% connected

To infold. See Infold.

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Envelop 76% connected

To put a covering about; to wrap up or in; to inclose within a case, wrapper, integument or the like; to surround entirely; as, to envelop goods or a…

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Enwrap 76% connected

To envelop. See Inwrap.

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Face 76% connected

The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which…

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Feather 76% connected

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

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Felt 76% connected

of Feel

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Flake 76% connected

A paling; a hurdle.

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Flash 76% connected

To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

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Flood 76% connected

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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Foil 76% connected

To tread under foot; to trample.

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Ford 76% connected

A place in a river, or other water, where it may be passed by man or beast on foot, by wading.

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Frost 76% connected

The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

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Glaciate 76% connected

To turn to ice.

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Grass 76% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Gravel 76% connected

Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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Grease 76% connected

Animal fat, as tallow or lard, especially when in a soft state; oily or unctuous matter of any kind.

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Hold 76% connected

The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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Hood 76% connected

State; condition.

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Hop 76% connected

To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

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Ice 76% connected

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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Indemnify 76% connected

To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.

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Jacket 76% connected

A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

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Lag 76% connected

Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.

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Laminate 76% connected

Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.

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Lime 76% connected

A thong by which a dog is led; a leash.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Mantle 76% connected

A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

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Mask 76% connected

A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.

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Mist 76% connected

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

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Mulch 76% connected

Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve mois…

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Oil 76% connected

Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal,…

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Overlap 76% connected

To lap over; to lap.

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Overspread 76% connected

of Overspread

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Overwhelm 76% connected

To cover over completely, as by a great wave; to overflow and bury beneath; to ingulf; hence, figuratively, to immerse and bear down; to overpower; t…

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Paint 76% connected

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

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Pall 76% connected

Same as Pawl.

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Paper 76% connected

A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wo…

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Parcel 76% connected

A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part.

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Paste 76% connected

A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

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Plank 76% connected

A broad piece of sawed timber, differing from a board only in being thicker. See Board.

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Plaster 76% connected

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adh…

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Recover 76% connected

To cover again.

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Reinsure 76% connected

To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on.

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Ridge 76% connected

The back, or top of the back; a crest.

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Robe 76% connected

An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or the like.

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Roof 76% connected

The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon t…

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Sheathe 76% connected

To put into a sheath, case, or scabbard; to inclose or cover with, or as with, a sheath or case.

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Sheet 76% connected

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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Shroud 76% connected

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

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Smear 76% connected

To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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Smother 76% connected

To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to…

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Sod 76% connected

of Seethe

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Span 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Spin.

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Splash 76% connected

To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

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Spray 76% connected

A small shoot or branch; a twig.

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Spread 76% connected

of Spread

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Steel 76% connected

A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one…

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Straw 76% connected

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

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Strew 76% connected

To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to str…

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Stud 76% connected

A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc.

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Submerge 76% connected

To put under water; to plunge.

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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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Surround 76% connected

To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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Sweep 76% connected

To pass a broom across (a surface) so as to remove loose dirt, dust, etc.; to brush, or rub over, with a broom for the purpose of cleaning; as, to sw…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Theologize 76% connected

To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.

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Tile 76% connected

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated; as, to tile a Masonic lodge.

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Tramp 76% connected

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

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Traverse 76% connected

Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

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Turf 76% connected

That upper stratum of earth and vegetable mold which is filled with the roots of grass and other small plants, so as to adhere and form a kind of mat…

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Veneer 76% connected

To overlay or plate with a thin layer of wood or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Use…

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Walk 76% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

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Wash 76% connected

To cleanse by ablution, or dipping or rubbing in water; to apply water or other liquid to for the purpose of cleansing; to scrub with water, etc., or…

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Wax 76% connected

To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane.

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Whitewash 76% connected

Any wash or liquid composition for whitening something, as a wash for making the skin fair.

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Wrap 76% connected

To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.

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Account 74% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Account 74% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Back 74% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Back 74% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

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Cerement 74% connected

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

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Cerement 74% connected

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

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Compensation 74% connected

The act or principle of compensating.

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Compensation 74% connected

The act or principle of compensating.

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Coverlet 74% connected

The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.

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Coverlet 74% connected

The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture.

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Encompassment 74% connected

The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.

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Encompassment 74% connected

The act of surrounding, or the state of being surrounded; circumvention.

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Hatch 74% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Hatch 74% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Overlay 74% connected

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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Overlay 74% connected

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

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Sheathing 74% connected

Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.

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Sheathing 74% connected

Inclosing with a sheath; as, the sheathing leaves of grasses; the sheathing stipules of many polygonaceous plants.

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Story 74% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Story 74% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Entails 1

Sit 72% connected

obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.

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Open English WordNet records that the source verb entails the related action.

Containing whole 2

Book 70% connected

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing c…

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

Volume 70% connected

A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.

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Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a containing group, substance or whole.

Synonym 35

Address 92% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Back 92% connected

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, hol…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Binding 92% connected

of Bind

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Blanket 92% connected

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Breed 92% connected

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Brood 92% connected

The young birds hatched at one time; a hatch; as, a brood of chickens.

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Compensate 92% connected

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a…

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Comprehend 92% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Concealment 92% connected

The act of concealing; the state of being concealed.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Continue 92% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Covering 92% connected

of Cover

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Covert 92% connected

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cross 92% connected

A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below th…

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Deal 92% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Embrace 92% connected

To fasten on, as armor.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Encompass 92% connected

To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Enshroud 92% connected

To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Extend 92% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Handle 92% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Hatch 92% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Hide 92% connected

To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

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Incubate 92% connected

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

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Insure 92% connected

To make sure or secure; as, to insure safety to any one.

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Masking 92% connected

of Mask

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Overlay 92% connected

To lay, or spread, something over or across; hence, to cover; to overwhelm; to press excessively upon.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plow 92% connected

Alt. of Plough

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Report 92% connected

To refer.

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Screen 92% connected

Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire s…

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Screening 92% connected

of Screen

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Shroud 92% connected

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Top 92% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Track 92% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

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Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Traverse 92% connected

Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Treat 92% connected

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Underwrite 92% connected

To write under something else; to subscribe.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Expose 94% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Expose 94% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

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