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To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk.

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Similar meaning 4

Clear 84% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Clear 84% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Ultimate 84% connected

Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.

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Ultimate 84% connected

Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.

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Verb group 12

Clear 84% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Clear 84% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

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Earn 84% connected

See Ern, n.

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Earn 84% connected

See Ern, n.

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Gain 84% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Gain 84% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Make 84% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Make 84% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Realize 84% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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Realize 84% connected

To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Sack 84% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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Sack 84% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

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Narrower term 14

Accumulation 76% connected

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Brail 76% connected

A thong of soft leather to bind up a hawk's wing.

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Cage 76% connected

A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals.

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Dividend 76% connected

A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- ap…

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Gauze 76% connected

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze.

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Killing 76% connected

of Kill

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Margin 76% connected

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

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Netting 76% connected

of Net

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Save-all 76% connected

Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.

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Snood 76% connected

The fillet which binds the hair of a young unmarried woman, and is emblematic of her maiden character.

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Sparker 76% connected

A spark arrester.

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Tulle 76% connected

In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.

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Veiling 76% connected

of Veil

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Wirework 76% connected

Work, especially openwork, formed of wires.

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Broader term 17

Bear 76% connected

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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Benefit 76% connected

An act of kindness; a favor conferred.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Cloth 76% connected

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made…

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Fabric 76% connected

The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Goal 76% connected

The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race…

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Grab 76% connected

A vessel used on the Malabar coast, having two or three masts.

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Income 76% connected

A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.

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Material 76% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Pay 76% connected

To cover, as bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc., with tar or pitch, or waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.

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Profit 76% connected

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or o…

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Textile 76% connected

Pertaining to weaving or to woven fabrics; as, textile arts; woven, capable of being woven; formed by weaving; as, textile fabrics.

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Tissue 76% connected

A woven fabric.

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Trap 76% connected

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.

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Weave 76% connected

To unite, as threads of any kind, in such a manner as to form a texture; to entwine or interlace into a fabric; as, to weave wool, silk, etc.; hence,…

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Yield 76% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

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Derivationally related 6

Ensnarl 74% connected

To entangle.

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Ensnarl 74% connected

To entangle.

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Web 74% connected

A weaver.

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Web 74% connected

A weaver.

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Component part 5

Backbone 70% connected

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

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Part 70% connected

One of the portions, equal or unequal, into which anything is divided, or regarded as divided; something less than a whole; a number, quantity, mass,…

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Percentage 70% connected

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

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Portion 70% connected

That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.

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Share 70% connected

The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

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Synonym 11

Clear 92% connected

Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Earnings 92% connected

of Earning

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Final 92% connected

Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Last 92% connected

of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Lucre 92% connected

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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Mesh 92% connected

The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meshing 92% connected

of Mesh

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Network 92% connected

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Profit 92% connected

Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or o…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sack 92% connected

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Web 92% connected

A weaver.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gross 94% connected

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

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Gross 94% connected

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

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