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Gear

Clothing; garments; ornaments.

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Accommodate 76% connected

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

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Adapt 76% connected

Fitted; suited.

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Equipment 76% connected

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

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Mechanism 76% connected

The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anythi…

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Wheel 76% connected

A circular frame turning about an axis; a rotating disk, whether solid, or a frame composed of an outer rim, spokes or radii, and a central hub or na…

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Wheelwork 76% connected

A combination of wheels, and their connection, in a machine or mechanism.

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Narrower term 18

Bevel gear 76% connected

A kind of gear in which the two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cone…

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First 76% connected

Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.

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High 76% connected

To hie.

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Kit 76% connected

To cut.

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Low 76% connected

strong imp. of Laugh.

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Outfit 76% connected

A fitting out, or equipment, as of a ship for a voyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; thin…

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Park 76% connected

A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant.

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Pinion 76% connected

A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

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Regalia 76% connected

That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or para…

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Reverse 76% connected

Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.

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Rig 76% connected

A ridge.

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Rigging 76% connected

of Rig

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Saddlery 76% connected

The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.

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Second 76% connected

Immediately following the first; next to the first in order of place or time; hence, occuring again; another; other.

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Tack 76% connected

A stain; a tache.

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Tackle 76% connected

Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the bl…

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Third 76% connected

Next after the second; coming after two others; -- the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day.

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Transmission 76% connected

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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Manner of action 1

Popularize 76% connected

To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.

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Component part 2

Cog 70% connected

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

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Tooth 70% connected

One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which u…

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Containing whole 1

Engine 70% connected

(Pronounced, in this sense, ////.) Natural capacity; ability; skill.

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Synonym 6

Appurtenance 92% connected

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and…

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Cogwheel 92% connected

A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

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Gearing 92% connected

of Gear

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Paraphernalia 92% connected

Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.

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Pitch 92% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Train 92% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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