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Peak

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Attain 76% connected

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.

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Brim 76% connected

The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.

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Convexity 76% connected

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

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Degree 76% connected

A step, stair, or staircase.

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Extreme 76% connected

At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.

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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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Hit 76% connected

It.

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Level 76% connected

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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Limit 76% connected

That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a…

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Limitation 76% connected

The act of limiting; the state or condition of being limited; as, the limitation of his authority was approved by the council.

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Make 76% connected

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

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Reach 76% connected

To retch.

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Stage 76% connected

A floor or story of a house.

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Brow 76% connected

The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.

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Crown 76% connected

of Crow

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Cusp 76% connected

A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hilltop 76% connected

The top of a hill.

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Maximum 76% connected

The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to dec…

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Minimum 76% connected

The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.

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Pinnacle 76% connected

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

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Manner of action 1

Crest 76% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Derivationally related 8

Apical 74% connected

At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit.

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Apical 74% connected

At or belonging to an apex, tip, or summit.

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Crest 74% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Crest 74% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Peaky 74% connected

Having a peak or peaks.

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Peaky 74% connected

Having a peak or peaks.

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Prime 74% connected

Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna

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Prime 74% connected

Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna

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Entails 4

Arise 72% connected

To come up from a lower to a higher position; to come above the horizon; to come up from one's bed or place of repose; to mount; to ascend; to rise;…

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Lift 72% connected

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

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Rise 72% connected

To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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Uprise 72% connected

To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.

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Containing whole 10

Alpenstock 70% connected

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.

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Arrowhead 70% connected

The head of an arrow.

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Blade 70% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Brand 70% connected

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Cone 70% connected

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right…

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Conoid 70% connected

Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.

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Knife 70% connected

An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and…

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Pencil 70% connected

A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.

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Steel 70% connected

A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one…

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Sword 70% connected

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, r…

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Synonym 25

Acme 92% connected

The top or highest point; the culmination.

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Apex 92% connected

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

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Bill 92% connected

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

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Bloom 92% connected

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

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Blossom 92% connected

The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as,…

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Crest 92% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Crown 92% connected

of Crow

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Efflorescence 92% connected

Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth.

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Elevation 92% connected

The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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Flower 92% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Flush 92% connected

To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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Height 92% connected

The condition of being high; elevated position.

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Heyday 92% connected

An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.

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Meridian 92% connected

Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

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Pinnacle 92% connected

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

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Prime 92% connected

Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna

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Summit 92% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Superlative 92% connected

Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the…

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Tip 92% connected

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Tiptop 92% connected

The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

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Top 92% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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Vertex 92% connected

A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.

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Visor 92% connected

A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.

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Vizor 92% connected

See Visor.

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