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Acetabulum
noun · 78% connection
the cup-shaped hollow in the hipbone into which the head of the femur fits to form a ball-and-socket joint
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Bell
noun · 78% connection
A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Cog
noun · 78% connection
A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Countergage
noun · 78% connection
An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Covert
adjective · 78% connection
One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Curtail dog
unknown · 78% connection
A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Disseminate
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, op…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Dock
noun · 78% connection
The solid part of an animal's tail, as distinguished from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cut…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Dory
noun · 78% connection
A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Fantail
noun · 78% connection
Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Fid
noun · 78% connection
A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the tres…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Flaringly
adverb · 78% connection
In a flaring manner.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Ginglymodi
noun · 78% connection
An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocerc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Hastate
adjective · 78% connection
(of a leaf shape) like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Horsenail
noun · 78% connection
A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Hound's-tongue
noun · 78% connection
A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Kingbird
noun · 78% connection
A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
Lewisson
noun · 78% connection
An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: flaring, tenon, tongue, shaped, like.
