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Plume

A feather; esp., a soft, downy feather, or a long, conspicuous, or handsome feather.

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Verb group 2

Dress 84% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Dress 84% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Broader term 15

Adornment 76% connected

An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.

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Arrange 76% connected

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.

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Attire 76% connected

To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant or splendid garments.

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Bedeck 76% connected

To deck, ornament, or adorn; to grace.

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Bedight 76% connected

of Bedight

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Cheat 76% connected

An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.

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Chisel 76% connected

A tool with a cutting edge on one end of a metal blade, used in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a m…

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Clean 76% connected

Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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Deck 76% connected

To cover; to overspread.

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Feel 76% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Overdress 76% connected

To dress or adorn to excess; to dress too much.

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Prink 76% connected

To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.

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Shape 76% connected

To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

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Narrower term 11

Aftershaft 76% connected

The hypoptilum.

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Aigret 76% connected

Alt. of Aigrette

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Aigrette 76% connected

The small white European heron. See Egret.

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Alula 76% connected

A false or bastard wing. See under Bastard.

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Down 76% connected

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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Hackle 76% connected

A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

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Marabou 76% connected

A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The As…

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Panache 76% connected

A plume or bunch of feathers, esp. such a bunch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers.

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Pinion 76% connected

A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.

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Quill 76% connected

One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.

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Scapular 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the scapula or the shoulder.

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Manner of action 5

Extort 76% connected

To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away…

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Gouge 76% connected

A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, wi…

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Rack 76% connected

Same as Arrack.

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Squeeze 76% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Wring 76% connected

To twist and compress; to turn and strain with violence; to writhe; to squeeze hard; to pinch; as, to wring clothes in washing.

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Derivationally related 2

Plumage 74% connected

The entire clothing of a bird.

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Plumage 74% connected

The entire clothing of a bird.

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Entails 2

Bill 72% connected

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

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Charge 72% connected

To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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Containing whole 1

Bird 70% connected

Orig., a chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling; and hence, a feathered flying animal (see 2).

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Component part 5

Calamus 70% connected

The indian cane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

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Quill 70% connected

One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.

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Shaft 70% connected

The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

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Vane 70% connected

A contrivance attached to some elevated object for the purpose of showing which way the wind blows; a weathercock. It is usually a plate or strip of…

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Web 70% connected

A weaver.

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Substance part 2

Keratin 70% connected

A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal ti…

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Melanin 70% connected

A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer…

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Synonym 13

Congratulate 92% connected

To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to.

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Dress 92% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Fleece 92% connected

The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time.

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Hook 92% connected

A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for c…

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Overcharge 92% connected

To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy.

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Pluck 92% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Plumage 92% connected

The entire clothing of a bird.

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Preen 92% connected

A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.

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Pride 92% connected

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

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Primp 92% connected

To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with up.

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Rob 92% connected

The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mi…

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Soak 92% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Surcharge 92% connected

To overload; to overburden; to overmatch; to overcharge; as, to surcharge a beast or a ship; to surcharge a cannon.

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