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Albumin
noun · 78% connection
A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
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: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Artificial
adjective · 78% connection
Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Artificiality
noun · 78% connection
The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Artificially
adverb · 78% connection
In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Brood
verb · 78% connection
To sit on and cover eggs, as a fowl, for the purpose of warming them and hatching the young; or to sit over and cover young, as a hen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Burn
verb · 78% connection
To perfect or improve by fire or heat; to submit to the action of fire or heat for some economic purpose; to destroy or change some pr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Caloric
noun · 78% connection
The principle of heat, or the agent to which the phenomena of heat and combustion were formerly ascribed; -- not now used in scientifi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Chip
verb · 78% connection
To break or crack, or crack off a portion of, as of an eggshell in hatching, or a piece of crockery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Crocodile
noun · 78% connection
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the larg…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Crude
superl. · 78% connection
In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Eggery
noun · 78% connection
A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Entropy
noun · 78% connection
A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Evaporate
verb · 78% connection
To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion; to subject to evaporation; as, to evaporate a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Factitious
adjective · 78% connection
Made by art, in distinction from what is produced by nature; artificial; sham; formed by, or adapted to, an artificial or conventional…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Forcing
noun · 78% connection
The art of raising plants, flowers, and fruits at an earlier season than the natural one, as in a hitbed or by the use of artificial h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Hachure
noun · 78% connection
A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
Hatch
verb · 78% connection
To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatch…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: contrivance, hatching, eggs, artificial, heat.
