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Distemper

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

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Choler 76% connected

The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility.

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Crossness 76% connected

The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

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Fussiness 76% connected

The quality of being fussy.

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Irritability 76% connected

The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.

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Moodiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

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Peevishness 76% connected

The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.

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Petulance 76% connected

Alt. of Petulancy

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Strangles 76% connected

A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.

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Humor 76% connected

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

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Humour 76% connected

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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Mood 76% connected

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

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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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Painting 76% connected

of Paint

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Picture 76% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Pigment 76% connected

Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an…

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Temper 76% connected

To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…

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