Flake: alternatives and connections

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces…

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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part; as, a fragment of an ancient writing.

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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also…

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The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.

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The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing…

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A gatherer of nuts.

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The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when ap…

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Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.

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To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

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To split or rend into long, thin pieces; to shiver; as, the lightning splinters a tree.

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Crazy or eccentric in a fun way

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Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

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Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.

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A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

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A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.

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The fluid which descends from the clouds in rain, and which forms rivers, lakes, seas, etc.

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The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

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To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew.

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Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center o…

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A flake; also, a lock, as of wool.

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A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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A flake, or small filmy mass, of snow.

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