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Adopt
verb · 78% connection
To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Adoption
noun · 78% connection
a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Affiliate
verb · 78% connection
To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Amphidromical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Anchor
noun · 78% connection
Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Archilute
noun · 78% connection
A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Auf
noun · 78% connection
A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Bastard
noun · 78% connection
A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Child
noun · 78% connection
One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Childlike
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Childly
adjective · 78% connection
Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Educate
verb · 78% connection
To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Foster
verb · 78% connection
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Grandchild
noun · 78% connection
A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Hand
noun · 78% connection
An agent; a servant, or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Handle
verb · 78% connection
To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Handyy-dandy
noun · 78% connection
A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
Harpsichord
noun · 78% connection
A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by mean…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: hold, leading, strings, hand, child.
