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Amphiaster
noun · 78% connection
The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fiber…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Are
unknown · 78% connection
The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Arpen
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, a measure of land in France, varying in different parts of the country. The arpent of Paris was 4,088 sq. yards, or nearly f…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Bath
noun · 78% connection
The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Bicentenary
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Bobbin
noun · 78% connection
A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a se…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Briarean
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Cent
noun · 78% connection
A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Centare
noun · 78% connection
A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Centigrade
adjective · 78% connection
Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Century
noun · 78% connection
A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Cop
noun · 78% connection
The top of a thing; the head; a crest.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Counterbrace
verb · 78% connection
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Darn
verb · 78% connection
To mend as a rent or hole, with interlacing stitches of yarn or thread by means of a needle; to sew together with yarn or thread.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Dead
adjective · 78% connection
Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevoc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Furlong
adjective · 78% connection
A measure of length; the eighth part of a mile; forty rods; two hundred and twenty yards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Gallon
noun · 78% connection
A measure of capacity, containing four quarts; -- used, for the most part, in liquid measure, but sometimes in dry measure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
Greencloth
noun · 78% connection
A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: yarn, measure, hundred, yards, spindle.
