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Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.

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Mark 84% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Mark 84% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 10

Attach 76% connected

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Follow 76% connected

To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Label 76% connected

A tassel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Name 76% connected

The title by which any person or thing is known or designated; a distinctive specific appellation, whether of an individual or a class.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pursue 76% connected

To follow with a view to overtake; to follow eagerly, or with haste; to chase; as, to pursue a hare.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rhyme 76% connected

An expression of thought in numbers, measure, or verse; a composition in verse; a rhymed tale; poetry; harmony of language.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Rime 76% connected

A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Touching 76% connected

of Touch

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 13

Badge 76% connected

A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Brand 76% connected

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Calibrate 76% connected

To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards o…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Code 76% connected

A body of law, sanctioned by legislation, in which the rules of law to be specifically applied by the courts are set forth in systematic form; a comp…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Favorite 76% connected

A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with partiality; one preferred above others; especially, one unduly loved, trusted, and e…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Favourite 76% connected

something regarded with special favor or liking; "that book is one of my favorites"

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hound 76% connected

A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hunt 76% connected

To search for or follow after, as game or wild animals; to chase; to pursue for the purpose of catching or killing; to follow with dogs or guns for s…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Nab 76% connected

The summit of an eminence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Quest 76% connected

The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Trace 76% connected

One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be draw…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Tree 76% connected

Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.

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Label 74% connected

A tassel.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Label 74% connected

A tassel.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mark 74% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mark 74% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

Open English WordNet records a derivational relationship between these word forms.

Synonym 11

Chase 92% connected

To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dog 92% connected

A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Label 92% connected

A tassel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Mark 92% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Rag 92% connected

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Shred 92% connected

A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tail 92% connected

Limitation; abridgment.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tatter 92% connected

One who makes tatting.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Ticket 92% connected

A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Track 92% connected

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a wheel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trail 92% connected

To hunt by the track; to track.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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