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Longbow

The ordinary bow, not mounted on a stock; -- so called in distinction from the crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one.

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Bow 76% connected

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

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Abbreviate verb · 78% connection

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken.

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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 sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

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Capital noun · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the head.

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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 military man serving on horseback; a knight.

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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 woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

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Corner noun · 78% connection

The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.

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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

One who, or that which, gallops.

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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 anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…

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Height noun · 78% connection

The condition of being high; elevated position.

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