The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.Norman
A wooden bar, or iron pin.
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the French (Norman) language used in medieval England
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.the French (Norman) language used in medieval England
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.the French (Norman) language used in medieval England
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.the French (Norman) language used in medieval England
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.of Borrow
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.Of or pertaining to France or its inhabitants.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.the Romance language spoken in Italy
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of th…
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.Of or pertaining to Spain or the Spaniards.
Used in the same subject area: Word origins, French and Romance origins.the Romance language spoken in most of Spain and the countries colonized by Spain
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A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A prayer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A black submetallic mineral consisting of oxide of chromium and iron; -- called also chromic iron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and mangane…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: wooden, iron.Explore Academic Dictionary
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