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Makeweight

That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

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Object 76% connected

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Weight 76% connected

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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Fill 74% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fill 74% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Filler 92% connected

One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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A unknown · 78% connection

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

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Accession noun · 78% connection

Increase by something added; that which is added; augmentation from without; as, an accession of wealth or territory.

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Account noun · 78% connection

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of the…

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Alcoholmeter noun · 78% connection

An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either…

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Annotation noun · 78% connection

a comment or instruction (usually added); "his notes were appended at the end of the article"; "he added a short notation to the addre…

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Autoplasty noun · 78% connection

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficienc…

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Bissextile noun · 78% connection

Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5…

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Chronogram noun · 78% connection

An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular d…

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Complement verb · 78% connection

That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.

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Complemental adjective · 78% connection

Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.

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Countermark noun · 78% connection

A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a pa…

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Counterpoise noun · 78% connection

A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.

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Dram noun · 78% connection

A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce…

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Failure noun · 78% connection

Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.

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Filling noun · 78% connection

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression i…

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Hypoxia noun · 78% connection

oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency

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Isomeric adjective · 78% connection

Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same pro…

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Little adjective · 78% connection

Small in size or extent; not big; diminutive; -- opposed to big or large; as, a little body; a little animal; a little piece of ground…

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