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Stuff

Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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Farce 84% connected

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

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Farce 84% connected

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

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Narrower term 54

Abradant 76% connected

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

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Abrasive 76% connected

Producing abrasion.

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Adhesive 76% connected

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

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Aggregate 76% connected

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."

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Ammunition 76% connected

Military stores, or provisions of all kinds for attack or defense.

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Atom 76% connected

An ultimate indivisible particle of matter.

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Ballast 76% connected

Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

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Bedding 76% connected

of Bed

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Builder 76% connected

One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.

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Chemical 76% connected

Pertaining to chemistry; characterized or produced by the forces and operations of chemistry; employed in the processes of chemistry; as, chemical ch…

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Color 76% connected

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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Colour 76% connected

See Color.

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Conductor 76% connected

One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director.

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Contamination 76% connected

The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

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Corpuscle 76% connected

A minute particle; an atom; a molecule.

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Detritus 76% connected

A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

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Diamagnet 76% connected

A body having diamagnetic polarity.

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Dielectric 76% connected

Any substance or medium that transmits the electric force by a process different from conduction, as in the phenomena of induction; a nonconductor. s…

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Discharge 76% connected

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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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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Earth 76% connected

The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in d…

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Emission 76% connected

The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission…

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Fiber 76% connected

Alt. of Fibre

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Fibre 76% connected

One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Filling 76% connected

of Fill

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Fluff 76% connected

Nap or down; flue; soft, downy feathers.

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Foam 76% connected

The white substance, consisting of an aggregation of bubbles, which is formed on the surface of liquids, or in the mouth of an animal, by violent agi…

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Ground 76% connected

of Grind

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Humate 76% connected

A salt of humic acid.

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Impregnation 76% connected

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

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Insulator 76% connected

One who, or that which, insulates.

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Litter 76% connected

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

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Mineral 76% connected

An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except…

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Molecule 76% connected

One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed to consist.

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Mote 76% connected

of Mot

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Nonconductor 76% connected

A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with diffi…

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Packing 76% connected

of Pack

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Paper 76% connected

A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wo…

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Particle 76% connected

A minute part or portion of matter; a morsel; a little bit; an atom; a jot; as, a particle of sand, of wood, of dust.

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Particulate 76% connected

To particularize.

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Precursor 76% connected

One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.

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Rind 76% connected

The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.

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Rock 76% connected

See Roc.

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Sorbent 76% connected

An absorbent.

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Speck 76% connected

The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.

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Staple 76% connected

A settled mart; an emporium; a city or town to which merchants brought commodities for sale or exportation in bulk; a place for wholesale traffic.

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Stone 76% connected

Concreted earthy or mineral matter; also, any particular mass of such matter; as, a house built of stone; the boy threw a stone; pebbles are rounded…

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Sundries 76% connected

Many different or small things; sundry things.

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Thickening 76% connected

of Thicken

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Undercut 76% connected

The lower or under side of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.

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Wad 76% connected

Woad.

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Wadding 76% connected

of Wad

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Bunk 76% connected

A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

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Center 76% connected

A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or plac…

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Centre 76% connected

To be placed in a center; to be central.

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Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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Clog 76% connected

That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.

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Congest 76% connected

To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.

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Core 76% connected

A body of individuals; an assemblage.

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Cram 76% connected

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…

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Eat 76% connected

of Eat

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Essence 76% connected

The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

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Fill 76% connected

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Foul 76% connected

A bird.

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Gist 76% connected

A resting place.

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Heart 76% connected

A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

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Impregnate 76% connected

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

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Information 76% connected

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence.

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Inwardness 76% connected

Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.

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Kernel 76% connected

The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a…

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Marrow 76% connected

The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is m…

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Meat 76% connected

Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an…

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Nonsense 76% connected

That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

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Nub 76% connected

To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.

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Object 76% connected

To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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Personalty 76% connected

The state of being a person; personality.

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Pith 76% connected

The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consis…

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Push 76% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Saturate 76% connected

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate.

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Substance 76% connected

That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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Sum 76% connected

The aggregate of two or more numbers, magnitudes, quantities, or particulars; the amount or whole of any number of individuals or particulars added t…

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Manner of action 6

Cork 76% connected

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

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Cram 76% connected

To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram a…

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Jam 76% connected

A kind of frock for children.

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Pad 76% connected

A footpath; a road.

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Ram 76% connected

The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

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Wad 76% connected

Woad.

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Derivationally related 6

Block 74% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Block 74% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Blockage 74% connected

The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

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Blockage 74% connected

The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

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Entails 1

Tan 72% connected

See Picul.

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Synonym 17

Block 92% connected

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on…

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Englut 92% connected

To swallow or gulp down.

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Engorge 92% connected

To gorge; to glut.

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Farce 92% connected

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff.

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Glut 92% connected

To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.

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Gorge 92% connected

The throat; the gullet; the canal by which food passes to the stomach.

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Gormandize 92% connected

To eat greedily; to swallow voraciously; to feed ravenously or like a glutton.

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Ingurgitate 92% connected

To swallow, devour, or drink greedily or in large quantity; to guzzle.

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Lug 92% connected

The ear, or its lobe.

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Material 92% connected

Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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Overeat 92% connected

To gnaw all over, or on all sides.

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Overgorge 92% connected

To gorge to excess.

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poppycock 92% connected

Nonsense or absurdity

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Satiate 92% connected

Filled to satiety; glutted; sated; -- followed by with or of.

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Shove 92% connected

To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of…

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Squeeze 92% connected

To press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orang…

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Thrust 92% connected

Thrist.

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