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Allowance
noun · 78% connection
The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
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Ambiguity
noun · 78% connection
Unclear wording or evidence that can be understood in different ways.
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Annealing
noun · 78% connection
The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: allowing, passage, four, directions, cock.
Cock
noun · 78% connection
The act of cocking; also, the turn so given; as, a cock of the eyes; to give a hat a saucy cock.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: allowing, passage, four, directions, cock.
D valve
unknown · 78% connection
A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide.
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Diaphanous
adjective · 78% connection
Allowing light to pass through, as porcelain; translucent or transparent; pellucid; clear.
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Directory
noun · 78% connection
A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory use…
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Extension
verb · 78% connection
A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt.
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Faucet
noun · 78% connection
A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desire…
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Four
noun · 78% connection
Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.
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Four-in-hand
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of four horses controlled by one person; as, a four-in-hand team; drawn by four horses driven by one person; as, a four-in-…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: allowing, passage, four, directions, cock.
Fusee
noun · 78% connection
A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode…
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Gate
noun · 78% connection
A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
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Hammer
noun · 78% connection
That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan…
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Hemautography
noun · 78% connection
The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece…
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Hippurite
noun · 78% connection
A fossil bivalve mollusk of the genus Hippurites, of many species, having a conical, cup-shaped under valve, with a flattish upper val…
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If
conj. · 78% connection
In case that; granting, allowing, or supposing that; -- introducing a condition or supposition.
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Ileocolic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the ileum and colon; as, the ileocolic, or ileocaecal, valve, a valve where the ileum opens into the large intestine.
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