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Overweight

Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

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Fat 84% connected

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

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Fat 84% connected

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

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Corpulency 76% connected

Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.

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Fleshiness 76% connected

The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.

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Obesity 76% connected

The state or quality of being obese; incumbrance of flesh.

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Corpulent 74% connected

Very fat; obese.

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Corpulent 74% connected

Very fat; obese.

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Stoutness 74% connected

The state or quality of being stout.

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Stoutness 74% connected

The state or quality of being stout.

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Corpulence 92% connected

Alt. of Corpulency

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Fleshy 92% connected

Full of, or composed of, flesh; plump; corpulent; fat; gross.

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Heavy 92% connected

Having the heaves.

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Stoutness 92% connected

The state or quality of being stout.

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Acidimetry noun · 78% connection

The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by a chemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or the fact that…

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Arroba noun · 78% connection

A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avo…

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As noun · 78% connection

A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

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Autoimmune diabetes noun · 78% connection

severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss an…

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Baric adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.

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Buoyancy noun · 78% connection

The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a fl…

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Combining weight noun · 78% connection

the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen

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Counterpoise verb · 78% connection

To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.

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Crimper noun · 78% connection

A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape.

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Dram noun · 78% connection

A weight; in Apothecaries' weight, one eighth part of an ounce, or sixty grains; in Avoirdupois weight, one sixteenth part of an ounce…

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Endogamy noun · 78% connection

marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law

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Eq noun · 78% connection

the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen

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Equivalent noun · 78% connection

That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual e…

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Equivalent weight noun · 78% connection

the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen

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Escambio noun · 78% connection

A license formerly required for the making over a bill of exchange to another over sea.

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Exogamy noun · 78% connection

marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law

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Gram equivalent noun · 78% connection

(chemistry) the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen; t…

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Growth-onset diabetes noun · 78% connection

severe diabetes mellitus with an early onset; characterized by polyuria and excessive thirst and increased appetite and weight loss an…

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