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Level

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.

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Equal 84% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Equal 84% connected

Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, deg…

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Even 84% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Even 84% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Horizontal 84% connected

Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.

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Horizontal 84% connected

Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.

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Steady 84% connected

Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.

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Steady 84% connected

Firm in standing or position; not tottering or shaking; fixed; firm.

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Acme 76% connected

The top or highest point; the culmination.

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Attic 76% connected

Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical;…

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Basement 76% connected

The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence:…

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Caliber 76% connected

Alt. of Calibre

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Calibre 76% connected

The diameter of the bore, as a cannon or other firearm, or of any tube; or the weight or size of the projectile which a firearm will carry; as, an 8…

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Cellar 76% connected

A room or rooms under a building, and usually below the surface of the ground, where provisions and other stores are kept.

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Climax 76% connected

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

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Depth 76% connected

The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the…

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Elevation 76% connected

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Entresol 76% connected

A low story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine.

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Extent 76% connected

Extended.

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Extreme 76% connected

At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

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Floor 76% connected

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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Flooring 76% connected

of Floor

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Garret 76% connected

A turret; a watchtower.

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Grind 76% connected

To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.

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Height 76% connected

The condition of being high; elevated position.

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High 76% connected

To hie.

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Highness 76% connected

The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.

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Immoderateness 76% connected

The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance.

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Immoderation 76% connected

Want of moderation.

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Intensity 76% connected

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

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Intensiveness 76% connected

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

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Ladder 76% connected

A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds…

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Loft 76% connected

That which is lifted up; an elevation.

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Low 76% connected

strong imp. of Laugh.

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Lowness 76% connected

The state or quality of being low.

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Meridian 76% connected

Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

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Mezzanine 76% connected

Same as Entresol.

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Moderateness 76% connected

The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.

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Moderation 76% connected

The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

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Peak 76% connected

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Pinnacle 76% connected

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

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Plane 76% connected

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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Platform 76% connected

A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Quickening 76% connected

of Quicken

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Resultant 76% connected

Resulting or issuing from a combination; existing or following as a result or consequence.

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Summit 76% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Superlative 76% connected

Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the…

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Tiptop 76% connected

The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

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Top 76% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Aim 76% connected

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a f…

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Altitude 76% connected

Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one obj…

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Construction 76% connected

The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.

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Destroy 76% connected

To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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Destruct 76% connected

To destroy.

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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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Height 76% connected

The condition of being high; elevated position.

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Indicator 76% connected

One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Rank 76% connected

Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.

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Speak 76% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Structure 76% connected

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Talk 76% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Train 76% connected

To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Bulldoze 76% connected

To intimidate; to restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana.

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Grade 76% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Strickle 76% connected

An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Even 74% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Even 74% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Layer 74% connected

One who, or that which, lays.

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Layer 74% connected

One who, or that which, lays.

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Raze 74% connected

A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

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Raze 74% connected

A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

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Containing whole 2

Building 70% connected

of Build

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Edifice 70% connected

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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High 66% connected

To hie.

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High 66% connected

To hie.

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Intense 66% connected

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Intense 66% connected

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Low 66% connected

strong imp. of Laugh.

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Low 66% connected

strong imp. of Laugh.

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Mild 66% connected

Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeab…

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Mild 66% connected

Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeab…

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Charge 92% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Degree 92% connected

A step, stair, or staircase.

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Dismantle 92% connected

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

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Even 92% connected

Evening. See Eve, n. 1.

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Flat 92% connected

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

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Floor 92% connected

The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

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Flush 92% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Grade 92% connected

A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of fl…

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Layer 92% connected

One who, or that which, lays.

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Plane 92% connected

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

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Rase 92% connected

To rub along the surface of; to graze.

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Raze 92% connected

A Shakespearean word (used once) supposed to mean the same as race, a root.

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Stage 92% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Storey 92% connected

See Story.

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Story 92% connected

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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Stratum 92% connected

A bed of earth or rock of one kind, formed by natural causes, and consisting usually of a series of layers, which form a rock as it lies between beds…

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Tied 92% connected

of Tie

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Tier 92% connected

One who, or that which, ties.

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