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Accoucheur
noun · 78% connection
A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Adjutant
noun · 78% connection
A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Archdeacon
noun · 78% connection
In England, an ecclesiastical dignitary, next in rank below a bishop, whom he assists, and by whom he is appointed, though with indepe…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Artilleryman
noun · 78% connection
A man who manages, or assists in managing, a large gun in firing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Assistant
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Bail
v./t. · 78% connection
To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be fait…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Barratry
noun · 78% connection
A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Bearer
noun · 78% connection
Specifically: One who assists in carrying a body to the grave; a pallbearer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Bottleholder
noun · 78% connection
One who assists or supports another in a contest; an abettor; a backer.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Bottomry
noun · 78% connection
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Candleholder
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, holds a candle; also, one who assists another, but is otherwise not of importance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Clerk
noun · 78% connection
A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Coach
noun · 78% connection
A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
coenzyme
noun · 78% connection
A molecule that assists an enzyme in its function
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Condition
noun · 78% connection
A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligati…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Debt
noun · 78% connection
That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Draught
noun · 78% connection
The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet dra…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: assists, saving, ship, goods, special.
Entry
noun · 78% connection
The exhibition or depositing of a ship's papers at the customhouse, to procure license to land goods; or the giving an account of a sh…
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