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Anglo-Saxon
noun · 78% connection
A Saxon of Britain, that is, an English Saxon, or one the Saxons who settled in England, as distinguished from a continental (or "Old"…
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Bivalve
noun · 78% connection
A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usua…
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Blade
noun · 78% connection
Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spir…
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Bomb
noun · 78% connection
A great noise; a hollow sound.
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Boston
noun · 78% connection
A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, a…
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Bretwalda
noun · 78% connection
The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxon chieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in their warfare…
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Brunonian
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to a system of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, of Scot…
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Budget
noun · 78% connection
A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions.
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Busby
noun · 78% connection
A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, han…
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Cannonade
noun · 78% connection
The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or for…
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Cid
noun · 78% connection
Chief or commander; in Spanish literature, a title of Ruy Diaz, Count of Bivar, a champion of Christianity and of the old Spanish roya…
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Cirripedia
n. pl. · 78% connection
An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening o…
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Closure
verb · 78% connection
The act of shutting; a closing; as, the closure of a chink.
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Conchiform
adjective · 78% connection
Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.
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Crustaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell.
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Fiction
noun · 78% connection
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
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Flank
noun · 78% connection
The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal, between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef.
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Generalissimo
adjective · 78% connection
The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate…
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