Hardware: alternatives and connections

Instruments or weapons of offense or defense.

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Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent.

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Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.

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The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.

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Fortification; stronghold.

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Weapons, collectively; as, an array of weaponry.

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The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

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The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.

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That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

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One who computes.

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Articles made of iron, as household utensils, tools, and the like.

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