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Spa

A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this name in Belgium.

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Hotel 76% connected

A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

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Playground 76% connected

A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

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A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

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Stress noun · 78% connection

Distress.

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Antonomasia noun · 78% connection

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majest…

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Apollinaris water unknown · 78% connection

An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn.

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Appellative adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming.

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Atomic number 11 noun · 78% connection

a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…

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Barite noun · 78% connection

Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granul…

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Belgian adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to Belgium.

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Belgic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.

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Bolt noun · 78% connection

A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or t…

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Brussels noun · 78% connection

A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

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Crystallite noun · 78% connection

A minute mineral form like those common in glassy volcanic rocks and some slags, not having a definite crystalline outline and not ref…

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Dendrite noun · 78% connection

A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figures resembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually an oxide of…

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Dornock noun · 78% connection

A coarse sort of damask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stou…

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Elater noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, elates.

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Elaterite noun · 78% connection

A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

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Flemish adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to Flanders, or the Flemings.

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Franc adjective · 78% connection

A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is e…

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Fusee noun · 78% connection

A flintlock gun. See 2d Fusil.

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Head noun · 78% connection

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher…

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