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Bailpiece
noun · 78% connection
A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Battledoor
noun · 78% connection
An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Beat
verb · 78% connection
To give the signal for, by beat of drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a parley, a retreat; to beat the ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Bull
verb · 78% connection
A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Capstan
noun · 78% connection
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Chain pump
unknown · 78% connection
A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. Th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Charta
noun · 78% connection
Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Chartaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling paper or parchment; of paper-like texture; papery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Chirograph
noun · 78% connection
A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was writt…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Colloid
noun · 78% connection
A substance (as albumin, gum, gelatin, etc.) which is of a gelatinous rather than a crystalline nature, and which diffuses itself thro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Coriaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Stiff, like leather or parchment.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Crimper
noun · 78% connection
A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Deed
verb · 78% connection
A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Deed poll
unknown · 78% connection
A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Dermis
noun · 78% connection
The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Docket
noun · 78% connection
A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Drumbeat
noun · 78% connection
The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
Engross
verb · 78% connection
To copy or write in a large hand (en gross, i. e., in large); to write a fair copy of in distinct and legible characters; as, to engro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: parchment, skin, stretched, over, drum.
