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Kneel

To bend the knee; to fall or rest on the knees; -- sometimes with down.

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Gesticulate 76% connected

To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures.

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Gesture 76% connected

Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.

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Motility 76% connected

Capability of motion; contractility.

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Motion 76% connected

The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or…

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Move 76% connected

To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as…

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Rest 76% connected

To arrest.

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Kneeler 74% connected

One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling.

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Kneeler 74% connected

One who kneels or who worships by or while kneeling.

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Kneeling 92% connected

of Kneel

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Acquiesce verb · 78% connection

To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or disc…

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Baker-legged adjective · 78% connection

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

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Baton noun · 78% connection

An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; --…

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Bend verb · 78% connection

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a cu…

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Bendlet noun · 78% connection

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

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Bight verb · 78% connection

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

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Bow verb · 78% connection

To bend the head, knee, or body, in token of reverence or submission; -- often with down.

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Bowleg noun · 78% connection

a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee)

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Buck verb · 78% connection

To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a st…

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Crouch verb · 78% connection

To bend, or cause to bend, as in humility or fear.

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Crutch noun · 78% connection

A knee, or piece of knee timber

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Dandle verb · 78% connection

To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.

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Decline verb · 78% connection

To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

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Deposit noun · 78% connection

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters depo…

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Down adjective · 78% connection

Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.

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Fall verb · 78% connection

To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to…

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Fell verb · 78% connection

To cause to fall; to prostrate; to bring down or to the ground; to cut down.

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Gaiter noun · 78% connection

A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.

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