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Leg

A limb or member of an animal used for supporting the body, and in running, climbing, and swimming; esp., that part of the limb between the knee and foot.

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Bifurcation 76% connected

A forking, or division into two branches.

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Bowleg 76% connected

A crooked leg.

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Brachium 76% connected

The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

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Crotch 76% connected

The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

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Fork 76% connected

An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curve…

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Gigot 76% connected

Alt. of Giggot

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Peg 76% connected

A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

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Pin 76% connected

To peen.

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Spindlelegs 76% connected

A spindleshanks.

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Spindleshanks 76% connected

A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.

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Stick 76% connected

A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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Cut 76% connected

of Cut

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Distance 76% connected

The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separati…

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Length 76% connected

The longest, or longer, dimension of any object, in distinction from breadth or width; extent of anything from end to end; the longest line which can…

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Limb 76% connected

A part of a tree which extends from the trunk and separates into branches and twigs; a large branch.

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Prosthesis 76% connected

The addition to the human body of some artificial part, to replace one that is wanting, as a log or an eye; -- called also prothesis.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Travel 76% connected

To labor; to travail.

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Traveling 76% connected

of Travel

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Travelling 76% connected

of Travel

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Leggy 74% connected

Having long legs.

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Leggy 74% connected

Having long legs.

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Component part 13

Ankle 70% connected

The joint which connects the foot with the leg; the tarsus.

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Crus 70% connected

That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank.

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Cuff 70% connected

To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap.

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Fibula 70% connected

A brooch, clasp, or buckle.

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Foot 70% connected

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing,…

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Genu 70% connected

The knee.

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Knee 70% connected

In man, the joint in the middle part of the leg.

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Knock-knee 70% connected

A condition in which the knees are bent in so as to touch each other in walking; inknee.

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Pes 70% connected

The distal segment of the hind limb of vertebrates, including the tarsus and foot.

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Shank 70% connected

See Chank.

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Shin 70% connected

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

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Thigh 70% connected

The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

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Tibia 70% connected

The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

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Containing whole 13

Body 70% connected

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Chair 70% connected

A movable single seat with a back.

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Cot 70% connected

A small house; a cottage or hut.

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Forking 70% connected

of Fork

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Four-poster 70% connected

A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains.

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Furcation 70% connected

A branching like a. fork.

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Grand 70% connected

Of large size or extent; great; extensive; hence, relatively great; greatest; chief; principal; as, a grand mountain; a grand army; a grand mistake.

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Journey 70% connected

The travel or work of a day.

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Pant 70% connected

To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp.

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Table 70% connected

A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.

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Tripod 70% connected

Any utensil or vessel, as a stool, table, altar, caldron, etc., supported on three feet.

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Trousers 70% connected

A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.

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Branch 92% connected

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

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Peg 92% connected

A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.

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Ramification 92% connected

The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

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Stage 92% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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