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Abbreviate
adjective · 78% connection
Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.
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Beguard
noun · 78% connection
One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward su…
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Breastrail
noun · 78% connection
The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
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Bugle
noun · 78% connection
A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in mil…
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Capital
noun · 78% connection
Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interes…
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Cathetometer
noun · 78% connection
An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…
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Cavalier
noun · 78% connection
A work of more than ordinary height, rising from the level ground of a bastion, etc., and overlooking surrounding parts.
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Companion
noun · 78% connection
One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in t…
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Concubine
noun · 78% connection
A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were H…
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Corner
noun · 78% connection
The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of proper…
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Eucalyptus
noun · 78% connection
A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even o…
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Falchion
noun · 78% connection
A broad-bladed sword, slightly curved, shorter and lighter than the ordinary sword; -- used in the Middle Ages.
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Galilee
noun · 78% connection
A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bo…
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Galloper
noun · 78% connection
A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber.
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Halfbeak
noun · 78% connection
Any slender, marine fish of the genus Hemirhamphus, having the upper jaw much shorter than the lower; -- called also balahoo.
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Hawk
noun · 78% connection
One of numerous species and genera of rapacious birds of the family Falconidae. They differ from the true falcons in lacking the promi…
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Head
noun · 78% connection
The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or t…
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Height
noun · 78% connection
Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height…
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