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Antero-
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Axis
noun · 78% connection
A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing throug…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Band
verb · 78% connection
A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Belt
noun · 78% connection
A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Breastband
noun · 78% connection
A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Capstan
noun · 78% connection
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Choke-strap
noun · 78% connection
A strap leading from the bellyband to the lower part of the collar, to keep the collar in place.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Chuck
noun · 78% connection
A piece of the backbone of an animal, from between the neck and the collar bone, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking; as, a chuc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Clavicle
noun · 78% connection
The collar bone, which is joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Collar
noun · 78% connection
Something worn round the neck, whether for use, ornament, restraint, or identification; as, the collar of a coat; a lady's collar; the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Collared
adjective · 78% connection
Wearing a collar; -- said of a man or beast used as a bearing when a collar is represented as worn around the neck or loins.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Collet
noun · 78% connection
A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Copper-fastened
adjective · 78% connection
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Countermarch
noun · 78% connection
An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Fall
noun · 78% connection
Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Front
verb · 78% connection
To adorn in front; to supply a front to; as, to front a house with marble; to front a head with laurel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Hame
noun · 78% connection
One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted up…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
Jougs
noun · 78% connection
An iron collar fastened to a wall or post, formerly used in Scotland as a kind of pillory. [Written also juggs.] See Juke.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: scarf, band, kerchief, silk, passing.
