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Rime

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

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Agree 76% connected

In good part; kindly.

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Check 76% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Correspond 76% connected

To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each othe…

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Gibe 76% connected

To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.

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Ice 76% connected

Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, britt…

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Jibe 76% connected

To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.

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Match 76% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Tally 76% connected

Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which cor…

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Versification 76% connected

The act, art, or practice, of versifying, or making verses; the construction of poetry; metrical composition.

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Water ice 76% connected

Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.

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Manner of action 3

Alliterate 76% connected

To employ or place so as to make alliteration.

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Assonate 76% connected

To correspond in sound.

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Tag 76% connected

Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

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Alliteration 76% connected

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following…

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Assonance 76% connected

Resemblance of sound.

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Consonance 76% connected

Alt. of Consonancy

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Containing whole 1

Poem 70% connected

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and…

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Synonym 4

Frost 92% connected

The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

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Hoar 92% connected

White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.

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Hoarfrost 92% connected

The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost.

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Rhyme 92% connected

An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

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