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Evil; wicked; bad.

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Masculine 84% connected

Of the male sex; not female.

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Masculine 84% connected

Of the male sex; not female.

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Phallic 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.

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Phallic 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the phallus, or to phallism.

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Staminate 84% connected

Furnished with stamens; producing stamens.

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Staminate 84% connected

Furnished with stamens; producing stamens.

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Animal 76% connected

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity…

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Beast 76% connected

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Brute 76% connected

Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

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Creature 76% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Fauna 76% connected

The animals of any given area or epoch; as, the fauna of America; fossil fauna; recent fauna.

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Individual 76% connected

Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.

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Mortal 76% connected

Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal.

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Person 76% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

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Somebody 76% connected

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Boy 76% connected

A male child, from birth to the age of puberty; a lad; hence, a son.

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Bullock 76% connected

A young bull, or any male of the ox kind.

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Chap 76% connected

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

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Colt 76% connected

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

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Feller 76% connected

One who, or that which, fells, knocks or cuts down; a machine for felling trees.

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Fellow 76% connected

A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer.

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Gent 76% connected

Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.

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Lad 76% connected

p. p. of Lead, to guide.

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Macho 76% connected

The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).

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Man 76% connected

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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Sire 76% connected

A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.

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Sirrah 76% connected

A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes…

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Steer 76% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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Gender 66% connected

Kind; sort.

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Gender 66% connected

Kind; sort.

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Sex 66% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Sex 66% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Sexuality 66% connected

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

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Sexuality 66% connected

The quality or state of being distinguished by sex.

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Manful 92% connected

Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.

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Manlike 92% connected

Like man, or like a man, in form or nature; having the qualities of a man, esp. the nobler qualities; manly.

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Manly 92% connected

Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.

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Virile 92% connected

Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable…

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Female 94% connected

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

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Female 94% connected

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.

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