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Fagot

A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine.

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Bind 76% connected

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

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Broider 76% connected

To embroider.

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Bundle 76% connected

A number of things bound together, as by a cord or envelope, into a mass or package convenient for handling or conveyance; a loose package; a roll; a…

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Embroider 76% connected

To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.

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Sheaf 76% connected

A sheave.

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Truss 76% connected

A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass.

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Fag 92% connected

A knot or coarse part in cloth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Fairy 92% connected

Enchantment; illusion.

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Pansy 92% connected

A plant of the genus Viola (V. tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diver…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Queen 92% connected

The wife of a king.

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Queer 92% connected

At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or ac…

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Arborescent adjective · 78% connection

Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree.

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Bale noun · 78% connection

A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up c…

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Branch verb · 78% connection

To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

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Branching adjective · 78% connection

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

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Branchy adjective · 78% connection

Full of branches; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches.

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Bristle fern noun · 78% connection

any fern of the genus Trichomanes having large pinnatifid often translucent fronds; most are epiphytic on tree branches and twigs or t…

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Broom noun · 78% connection

A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, whic…

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Browse noun · 78% connection

The tender branches or twigs of trees and shrubs, fit for the food of cattle and other animals; green food.

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Chatwood noun · 78% connection

Little sticks; twigs for burning; fuel.

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Coppice noun · 78% connection

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

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Ditch verb · 78% connection

To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.

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Evergreen noun · 78% connection

Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration.

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Expletive adjective · 78% connection

Filling up; hence, added merely for the purpose of filling up; superfluous.

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Fascine noun · 78% connection

A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and…

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Fastigiated adjective · 78% connection

United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

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Felt fungus noun · 78% connection

fungus that frequently encircles twigs and branches of various trees especially citrus trees in southern United States

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Filmy fern noun · 78% connection

any fern of the genus Trichomanes having large pinnatifid often translucent fronds; most are epiphytic on tree branches and twigs or t…

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Flooding noun · 78% connection

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

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