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Air vessel
unknown · 78% connection
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Appellative
noun · 78% connection
A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Beguard
noun · 78% connection
One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Beton
noun · 78% connection
The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Capillary
noun · 78% connection
A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smal…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Catamaran
noun · 78% connection
Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Felucca
noun · 78% connection
A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
G
unknown · 78% connection
G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally u…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Galiot
noun · 78% connection
A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Galley
noun · 78% connection
A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Gallicism
noun · 78% connection
A mode of speech peculiar to the French; a French idiom; also, in general, a French mode or custom.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Gallivat
noun · 78% connection
A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Hoy
noun · 78% connection
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger ves…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Hurons
n. pl. · 78% connection
; sing. Huron. (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike tribe of North American Indians of the Algonquin stock. They formerly occupied the cou…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Keel
noun · 78% connection
A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Knot
noun · 78% connection
A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Mediterranean
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
Nominate
verb · 78% connection
To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointmen…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: originally, vessel, mediterranean, propelled, sails.
