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Rat

One of several species of small rodents of the genus Mus and allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, and ships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. decumanus), the black rat (M. rattus), and the roof rat (M. Alexandrinus). These were introduced into America from the Old World.

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Canary 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

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Grass 76% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Sneak 76% connected

To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.

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Sneaker 76% connected

One who sneaks.

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Capture 76% connected

The act of seizing by force, or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal.

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Catch 76% connected

To lay hold on; to seize, especially with the hand; to grasp (anything) in motion, with the effect of holding; as, to catch a ball.

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Defect 76% connected

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Desert 76% connected

That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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Employ 76% connected

To inclose; to infold.

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Engage 76% connected

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or…

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Gnawer 76% connected

One who, or that which, gnaws.

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Hire 76% connected

See Here, pron.

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Inform 76% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Informant 76% connected

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.

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Pad 76% connected

A footpath; a road.

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Rodent 76% connected

Gnawing; biting; corroding; (Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.

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Source 76% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Work 76% connected

Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Bum 74% connected

The buttock.

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Bum 74% connected

The buttock.

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Inform 74% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Inform 74% connected

Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.

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Ratter 74% connected

One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.

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Ratter 74% connected

One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.

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Renegade 74% connected

One faithless to principle or party.

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Renegade 74% connected

One faithless to principle or party.

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Squealer 74% connected

One who, or that which, squeals.

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Squealer 74% connected

One who, or that which, squeals.

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Containing whole 2

Coif 70% connected

A cap.

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Coiffure 70% connected

A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

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Betray 92% connected

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

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Betrayer 92% connected

One who, or that which, betrays.

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Blabber 92% connected

A tattler; a telltale.

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Blackleg 92% connected

A notorious gambler.

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Bum 92% connected

The buttock.

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Crumb 92% connected

A small fragment or piece; especially, a small piece of bread or other food, broken or cut off.

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Denounce 92% connected

To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).

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Git 92% connected

See Geat.

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Grass 92% connected

Popularly: Herbage; the plants which constitute the food of cattle and other beasts; pasture.

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Informer 92% connected

One who informs, animates, or inspires.

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Puke 92% connected

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew.

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Scab 92% connected

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

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Shop 92% connected

imp. of Shape. Shaped.

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Skunk 92% connected

Any one of several species of American musteline carnivores of the genus Mephitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an…

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Squealer 92% connected

One who, or that which, squeals.

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Stag 92% connected

The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.

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Stinker 92% connected

One who, or that which, stinks.

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Stinkpot 92% connected

An earthen jar charged with powder, grenades, and other materials of an offensive and suffocating smell, -- sometimes used in boarding an enemy's ves…

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