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Puppet

A small image in the human form; a doll.

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Doll 76% connected

A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.

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Dolly 76% connected

A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed; a stirrer.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Slave 76% connected

See Slav.

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Creature 92% connected

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Marionette 92% connected

A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.

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Tool 92% connected

An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by…

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Afterimage noun · 78% connection

an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased

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Aiglet noun · 78% connection

A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet…

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Anamorphosis noun · 78% connection

A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain poin…

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Anthropomorphism noun · 78% connection

The representation of the Deity, or of a polytheistic deity, under a human form, or with human attributes and affections.

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Anthropomorphist noun · 78% connection

One who attributes the human form or other human attributes to the Deity or to anything not human.

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Anthropomorphite noun · 78% connection

One who ascribes a human form or human attributes to the Deity or to a polytheistic deity. Taylor. Specifically, one of a sect of anci…

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Babe noun · 78% connection

A doll for children.

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Baby noun · 78% connection

A small image of an infant; a doll.

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Back noun · 78% connection

In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body…

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Brute noun · 78% connection

An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.

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Cannibal noun · 78% connection

A human being that eats human flesh; hence, any that devours its own kind.

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Clay noun · 78% connection

Earth in general, as representing the elementary particles of the human body; hence, the human body as formed from such particles.

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Cynical adjective · 78% connection

Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which ar…

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Demographic noun · 78% connection

a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age or sex or income etc.)

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Ethics noun · 78% connection

The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting d…

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Human adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human v…

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Humanify verb · 78% connection

To make human; to invest with a human personality; to incarnate.

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Idea noun · 78% connection

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, wheth…

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