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Skunk

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 extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.

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Cannabis 76% connected

A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.

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Defeat 76% connected

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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Ganja 76% connected

The dried hemp plant, used in India for smoking. It is extremely narcotic and intoxicating.

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Licking 76% connected

of Lick

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Musteline 76% connected

Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.

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Overcome 76% connected

of Overcome

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Synonym 16

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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Gage 92% connected

A pledge or pawn; something laid down or given as a security for the performance of some act by the person depositing it, and forfeited by nonperform…

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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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Lurch 92% connected

To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

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Polecat 92% connected

A small European carnivore of the Weasel family (Putorius foetidus). Its scent glands secrete a substance of an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Called…

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Pot 92% connected

A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc…

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Puke 92% connected

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

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Rat 92% connected

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 N…

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Sens 92% connected

Since.

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Sess 92% connected

To lay a tax upon; to assess.

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Smoke 92% connected

The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal,…

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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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Weed 92% connected

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

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