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An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.

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Important 84% connected

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Important 84% connected

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.

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Achene 76% connected

Alt. of Achenium

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Chord 76% connected

The string of a musical instrument.

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Determine 76% connected

To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.

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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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Explanation 76% connected

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in S…

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Furnish 76% connected

To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provis…

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Harmonize 76% connected

To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

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Kilo 76% connected

An abbreviation of Kilogram.

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Kilogram 76% connected

Alt. of Kilogramme

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Lever 76% connected

More agreeable; more pleasing.

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List 76% connected

A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a…

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Listing 76% connected

of List

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Offer 76% connected

To present, as an act of worship; to immolate; to sacrifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up.

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Pitch 76% 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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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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Reconcile 76% connected

To cause to be friendly again; to conciliate anew; to restore to friendship; to bring back to harmony; to cause to be no longer at variance; as, to r…

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Render 76% connected

One who rends.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Space 76% connected

Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Coigne 76% connected

A quoin.

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Latchkey 76% connected

A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch.

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Master 76% connected

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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Quoin 76% connected

Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

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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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Shift 76% connected

To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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Tab 76% connected

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

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Wind 74% 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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Wind 74% 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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Entails 5

Assort 72% connected

To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to ass…

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Class 72% connected

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower clas…

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Classify 72% connected

To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system; to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common properties or characters.

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Separate 72% connected

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

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Sort 72% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Containing whole 2

Action 70% connected

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another;…

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Arch 70% connected

Any part of a curved line.

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Component part 3

Bit 70% connected

The part of a bridle, usually of iron, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened.

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Shank 70% connected

See Chank.

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Stem 70% connected

Alt. of Steem

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Containing group 1

Keyboard 70% connected

The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc.

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Synonym 16

Cardinal 92% connected

Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.

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Cay 92% connected

See Key, a ledge.

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Central 92% connected

Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center; equidistant o…

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Describe 92% connected

To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the he…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Discover 92% connected

To uncover.

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Distinguish 92% connected

Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.

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Fundamental 92% connected

Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementar…

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Headstone 92% connected

The principal stone in a foundation; the chief or corner stone.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Identify 92% connected

To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Keystone 92% connected

The central or topmost stone of an arch. This in some styles is made different in size from the other voussoirs, or projects, or is decorated with ca…

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Name 92% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

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Paint 92% connected

To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

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Primal 92% connected

First; primary; original; chief.

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Samara 92% connected

A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.

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Tonality 92% connected

The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship…

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Winder 92% connected

One who, or that which, winds; hence, a creeping or winding plant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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