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Instrument

That by means of which any work is performed, or result is effected; a tool; a utensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments.

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Acquittance 76% connected

The clearing off of debt or obligation; a release or discharge from debt or other liability.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Affidavit 76% connected

A sworn statement in writing; a declaration in writing, signed and made upon oath before an authorized magistrate.

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Analyser 76% connected

Same as Analyze, Analyzer, etc.

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Analyzer 76% connected

One who, or that which, analyzes.

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Arm 76% connected

The limb of the human body which extends from the shoulder to the hand; also, the corresponding limb of a monkey.

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Arraignment 76% connected

The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or compla…

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Assignment 76% connected

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

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Authorization 76% connected

The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.

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Bass 76% connected

of Bass

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Bill 76% connected

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

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Brief 76% connected

Short in duration.

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Calliope 76% connected

The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.

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Cauterant 76% connected

A cauterizing substance.

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Cautery 76% connected

A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue.

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Certificate 76% connected

A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.

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Conveyance 76% connected

The act of conveying, carrying, or transporting; carriage.

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Debenture 76% connected

A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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Derivative 76% connected

Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivat…

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Enactment 76% connected

The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

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Engine 76% connected

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

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Extractor 76% connected

One who, or that which, extracts

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Harmonium 76% connected

A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced by forcing air by means of a…

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Hurdy-gurdy 76% connected

A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, instead of by a bo…

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Impeachment 76% connected

The act of impeaching, or the state of being impeached

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Indictment 76% connected

The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted.

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Judgement 76% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 76% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Law 76% connected

In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order accordin…

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Licence 76% connected

a legal document giving official permission to do something

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License 76% connected

Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry…

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Mandate 76% connected

An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

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Manifest 76% connected

Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehens…

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Measure 76% connected

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and s…

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Opinion 76% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Organ 76% connected

An instrument or medium by which some important action is performed, or an important end accomplished; as, legislatures, courts, armies, taxgatherers…

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Passport 76% connected

Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place,…

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Patent 76% connected

Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

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Permit 76% connected

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with.

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Plotter 76% connected

One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer.

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Release 76% connected

To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

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Return 76% connected

To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition.

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Security 76% connected

The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.

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Testament 76% connected

A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.

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Title 76% connected

An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.

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Tracer 76% connected

One who, or that which, traces.

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Weapon 76% connected

An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring…

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Whip 76% connected

To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

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Will 76% connected

The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide t…

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Wind 76% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Writ 76% connected

3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth.

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Address 76% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Agency 76% connected

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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Assistant 76% connected

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.

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Compose 76% connected

To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Direct 76% connected

Straight; not crooked, oblique, or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.

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Document 76% connected

That which is taught or authoritatively set forth; precept; instruction; dogma.

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Equip 76% connected

To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide wi…

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Help 76% connected

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man…

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Helper 76% connected

One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.

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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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Supporter 76% connected

One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

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Way 76% connected

Away.

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Write 76% connected

To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the charact…

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Instrumental 74% connected

Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the bus…

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Instrumental 74% connected

Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the bus…

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Instrumentation 74% connected

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

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Instrumentation 74% connected

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

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Orchestration 74% connected

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

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Orchestration 74% connected

The arrangement of music for an orchestra; orchestral treatment of a composition; -- called also instrumentation.

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Cat's-paw 92% connected

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

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Pawn 92% connected

See Pan, the masticatory.

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Tool 92% connected

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

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