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Lightwood

Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the Southern United States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling a fire quickly or making a blaze.

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Blackwood 76% connected

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

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Bermuda grass unknown · 78% connection

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…

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Blazing adjective · 78% connection

Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches.

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Bluebonnet noun · 78% connection

low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock pois…

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Chuck-Will's-widow noun · 78% connection

large whippoorwill-like bird of the southern United States

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Circuit noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…

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Confederate adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…

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Constitutional Convention noun · 78% connection

the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

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Coquina noun · 78% connection

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and…

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Dover's Powder unknown · 78% connection

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States)…

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Fed noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Federal Reserve noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Federal Reserve System noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Forest noun · 78% connection

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland whi…

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FRS noun · 78% connection

the central bank of the United States; incorporates 12 Federal Reserve branch banks and all national banks and state-chartered commerc…

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Galipot noun · 78% connection

An impure resin of turpentine, hardened on the outside of pine trees by the spontaneous evaporation of its essential oil. When purifie…

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Knotless adjective · 78% connection

Free from knots; without knots.

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Knotted adjective · 78% connection

Full of knots; having knots knurled; as, a knotted cord; the knotted oak.

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Knotty superl. · 78% connection

Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.

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