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Spray

A small shoot or branch; a twig.

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Atomize 76% connected

To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray.

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Mist 76% connected

Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

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Shower 76% connected

One who shows or exhibits.

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Syringe 76% connected

A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a…

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Cover 76% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Dispenser 76% connected

One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.

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Disperse 76% connected

To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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Dot 76% connected

A marriage portion; dowry.

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Dust 76% connected

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portion…

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Jet 76% connected

Same as 2d Get.

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Scatter 76% connected

To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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Spirt 76% connected

Same as Spurt.

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Sprinkle 76% connected

To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

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Spurt 76% connected

To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt.

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Squirt 76% connected

To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.

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Spoondrift 76% connected

Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

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Atomizer 92% connected

One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

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Nebulizer 92% connected

An atomizer.

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