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Signature

A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.

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Broader term 12

Air 76% connected

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fashion 76% connected

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house,…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Manner 76% connected

Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

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Melody 76% connected

A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.

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Mode 76% connected

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sheet 76% connected

In general, a large, broad piece of anything thin, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies.

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Strain 76% connected

Race; stock; generation; descent; family.

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Tune 76% connected

A sound; a note; a tone.

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Way 76% connected

Away.

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Narrower term 5

Allograph 76% connected

A writing or signature made by some person other than any of the parties thereto; -- opposed to autograph.

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Autograph 76% connected

That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

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Countersign 76% connected

To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attes…

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Endorsement 76% connected

Same as Indorsement.

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Indorsement 76% connected

The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument.

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Derivationally related 2

Sign 74% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Sign 74% connected

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof.

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Containing whole 1

Book 70% connected

A collection of sheets of paper, or similar material, blank, written, or printed, bound together; commonly, many folded and bound sheets containing c…

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Component part 1

Paraph 70% connected

A flourish made with the pen at the end of a signature. In the Middle Ages, this formed a sort of rude safeguard against forgery.

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Synonym 1

Touch 92% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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