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Diet

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

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Fare 76% connected

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

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Fast 76% connected

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

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Fasting 76% connected

of Fast

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Legislature 76% connected

The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.

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Pap 76% connected

A nipple; a mammilla; a teat.

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Vegetarianism 76% connected

The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.

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Dietary 74% connected

Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

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Dietary 74% connected

Pertaining to diet, or to the rules of diet.

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Dieter 74% connected

One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

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Dieter 74% connected

One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

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Dietetic 74% connected

Alt. of Dietetical

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Dietetic 74% connected

Alt. of Dietetical

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Dietetical 74% connected

Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

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Dietetical 74% connected

Of or performance to diet, or to the rules for regulating the kind and quantity of food to be eaten.

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Dieting 92% connected

of Diet

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