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Medium

That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.

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Cooked 84% connected

of Cook

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Cooked 84% connected

of Cook

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Moderate 84% connected

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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Moderate 84% connected

Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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Narrower term 14

Aether 76% connected

See Ether.

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Air 76% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Album 76% connected

A white tablet on which anything was inscribed, as a list of names, etc.

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Celluloid 76% connected

A substance composed essentially of gun cotton and camphor, and when pure resembling ivory in texture and color, but variously colored to imitate cor…

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Dissolvent 76% connected

Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as, the dissolvent juices of the stomach.

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Dissolver 76% connected

One who, or that which, has power to dissolve or dissipate.

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Ether 76% connected

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be the medium of t…

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Film 76% connected

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

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Magilp 76% connected

Alt. of Magilph

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Megilp 76% connected

Alt. of Megilph

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Paper 76% connected

A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wo…

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Resolvent 76% connected

Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.

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Solvent 76% connected

Having the power of dissolving; dissolving; as, a solvent fluid.

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Vehicle 76% connected

That in or on which any person or thing is, or may be, carried, as a coach, carriage, wagon, cart, car, sleigh, bicycle, etc.; a means of conveyance;…

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Business 76% connected

That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or…

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Communicating 76% connected

of Communicate

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Communication 76% connected

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

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Environment 76% connected

Act of environing; state of being environed.

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Environs 76% connected

The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.

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Food 76% connected

What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; alim…

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Instrumentality 76% connected

The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.

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Instrumentation 76% connected

The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.

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Job 76% connected

A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Liquid 76% connected

Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid.

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Nutrient 76% connected

Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.

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Occupation 76% connected

The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use;…

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Psychic 76% connected

Alt. of Psychical

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Surround 76% connected

To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.

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Transmission 76% connected

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country t…

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Median 74% connected

Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

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Median 74% connected

Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

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Synonym 4

Average 92% connected

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

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Intermediate 92% connected

Lying or being in the middle place or degree, or between two extremes; coming or done between; intervening; interposed; interjacent; as, an intermedi…

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Sensitive 92% connected

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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Spiritualist 92% connected

One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character; an ecclesiastic.

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