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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: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Asbestos
noun · 78% connection
A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Bandolier
noun · 78% connection
A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was use…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Baptize
verb · 78% connection
To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Basil
noun · 78% connection
The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Beccafico
noun · 78% connection
A small bird. (Silvia hortensis), which is highly prized by the Italians for the delicacy of its flesh in the autumn, when it has fed…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Borax
noun · 78% connection
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Cherub
noun · 78% connection
One of a order of angels, variously represented in art. In European painting the cherubim have been shown as blue, to denote knowledge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Claret
noun · 78% connection
The name first given in England to the red wines of Medoc, in France, and afterwards extended to all the red Bordeaux wines. The name…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Donee
noun · 78% connection
Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Ekaluminium
noun · 78% connection
The name given to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Feldspath
noun · 78% connection
A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
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: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Garibaldi
noun · 78% connection
A jacket worn by women; -- so called from its resemblance in shape to the red shirt worn by the Italians patriot Garibaldi.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Gneiss
noun · 78% connection
A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Hermes
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a boundary stone dedicated to Hermes as the god of boundaries, and therefore bearing in some cases a head, or head and sho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Holocrystalline
adjective · 78% connection
Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
Italian
noun · 78% connection
The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: name, originally, given, italians, serpentine.
