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Framework

The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society.

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Arbor 76% connected

A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.

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Bower 76% connected

One who bows or bends.

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Buck 76% connected

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

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Buffer 76% connected

An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

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Bustle 76% connected

To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd.

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Case 76% connected

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cove…

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Casing 76% connected

of Case

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Chase 76% connected

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

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Clotheshorse 76% connected

A frame to hang clothes on.

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Cornice 76% connected

Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedes…

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Deckle 76% connected

A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge o…

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Derrick 76% connected

A mast, spar, or tall frame, supported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building.

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Doorcase 76% connected

The surrounding frame into which a door shuts.

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Fender 76% connected

One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm

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Frame 76% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Framing 76% connected

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Fretwork 76% connected

Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shad…

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Gantry 76% connected

See Gauntree.

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Gauntry 76% connected

A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.

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Grate 76% connected

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Grating 76% connected

of Grate

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Grill 76% connected

A gridiron.

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Grille 76% connected

A lattice or grating.

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Handbarrow 76% connected

A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.

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Hayrack 76% connected

A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging.

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Honeycomb 76% connected

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

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Horse 76% connected

A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period.…

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Lattice 76% connected

Any work of wood or metal, made by crossing laths, or thin strips, and forming a network; as, the lattice of a window; -- called also latticework.

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Latticework 76% connected

Same as Lattice, n., 1.

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Mounting 76% connected

of Mount

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Oxbow 76% connected

A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the y…

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Pilot 76% connected

One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.

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Ribbing 76% connected

of Rib

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Sash 76% connected

A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a…

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Sawbuck 76% connected

A sawhorse.

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Sawhorse 76% connected

A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.

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Simulation 76% connected

The act of simulating, or assuming an appearance which is feigned, or not true; -- distinguished from dissimulation, which disguises or conceals what…

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Stretcher 76% connected

One who, or that which, stretches.

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Tambour 76% connected

A kind of small flat drum; a tambourine.

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Tenter 76% connected

One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

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Truss 76% connected

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

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Valance 76% connected

Hanging drapery for a bed, couch, window, or the like, especially that which hangs around a bedstead, from the bed to the floor.

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Walker 76% connected

One who walks; a pedestrian.

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Wattle 76% connected

A twig or flexible rod; hence, a hurdle made of such rods.

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Window 76% connected

An opening in the wall of a building for the admission of light and air, usually closed by casements or sashes containing some transparent material,…

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Hypothesis 76% connected

A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point i…

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Possibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Theory 76% connected

A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.

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Backing 70% connected

of Back

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Brace 70% connected

That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.

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Bracing 70% connected

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Mount 70% connected

A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always ins…

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Fabric 92% connected

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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Frame 92% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Model 92% connected

A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

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