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The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

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Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Bill 76% connected

A beak, as of a bird, or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.

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Dose 76% connected

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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Invoice 76% connected

A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges ann…

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Journalism 76% connected

The keeping of a journal or diary.

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Key 76% connected

An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lo…

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Slip 76% connected

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Bolus 76% connected

A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill.

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Capsule 76% connected

a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily,…

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Synonym 5

Check 92% connected

A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Chit 92% connected

The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

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Lozenge 92% connected

A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon. Cf. Fusil.

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Pill 92% connected

The peel or skin.

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Tablet 92% connected

A small table or flat surface.

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