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Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept.

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Verb group 14

Accord 84% connected

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

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Accord 84% connected

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

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Add 84% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Add 84% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Agree 84% connected

In good part; kindly.

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Agree 84% connected

In good part; kindly.

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Check 84% 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,…

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Check 84% 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,…

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Concord 84% connected

A state of agreement; harmony; union.

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Concord 84% connected

A state of agreement; harmony; union.

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Consort 84% connected

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

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Consort 84% connected

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

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Harmonize 84% connected

To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

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Harmonize 84% connected

To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

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Manner of action 45

Accord 76% connected

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

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Ace 76% connected

A unit; a single point or spot on a card or die; the card or die so marked; as, the ace of diamonds.

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Adhere 76% connected

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

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Agree 76% connected

In good part; kindly.

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Align 76% connected

To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.

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Answer 76% connected

To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

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Apply 76% connected

To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of…

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Befit 76% connected

To be suitable to; to suit; to become.

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Beseem 76% connected

Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become;…

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Coincide 76% connected

To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.

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Concord 76% connected

A state of agreement; harmony; union.

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Conform 76% connected

Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.

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Consist 76% connected

To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist…

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Consort 76% connected

One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.

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Convert 76% connected

To cause to turn; to turn.

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Correlate 76% connected

To have reciprocal or mutual relations; to be mutually related.

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Corroborate 76% connected

To make strong, or to give additional strength to; to strengthen.

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Duplicate 76% connected

Double; twofold.

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Eagle 76% connected

Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure…

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Equalize 76% connected

To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.

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Exceed 76% connected

To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man…

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Get 76% connected

Jet, the mineral.

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Harmonize 76% connected

To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.

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have 76% connected

of Have

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Homer 76% connected

A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.

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Homologize 76% connected

To determine the homologies or structural relations of.

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Kick 76% connected

To strike, thrust, or hit violently with the foot; as, a horse kicks a groom; a man kicks a dog.

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Lend 76% connected

To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow.

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Look 76% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Par 76% connected

See Parr.

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Parallel 76% connected

Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.

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Pattern 76% connected

Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.

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Resemble 76% connected

To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other.

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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.

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Rime 76% connected

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

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Shoot 76% connected

An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artifi…

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Square 76% connected

The corner, or angle, of a figure.

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Suit 76% connected

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

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Support 76% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

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Surpass 76% connected

To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.

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Transcend 76% connected

To rise above; to surmount; as, lights in the heavens transcending the region of the clouds.

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Twin 76% connected

Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

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Underpin 76% connected

To lay stones, masonry, etc., under, as the sills of a building, on which it is to rest.

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Walk 76% connected

To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate…

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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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Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

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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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Count 76% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Enter 76% connected

To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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Enumerate 76% connected

To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a s…

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Gain 76% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Investigating 76% connected

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Investigation 76% connected

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; a…

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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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Number 76% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Numerate 76% connected

To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

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Record 76% connected

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

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Score 76% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Win 76% connected

To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to w…

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Narrower term 4

Census 76% connected

A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years.

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Miscount 76% connected

To count erroneously.

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Poll 76% connected

A parrot; -- familiarly so called.

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Recount 76% connected

To count or reckon again.

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Match 74% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Match 74% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Score 74% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Score 74% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Scorer 74% connected

One who, or that which, scores.

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Scorer 74% connected

One who, or that which, scores.

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Total 74% connected

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

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Total 74% connected

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

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Totality 74% connected

The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

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Totality 74% connected

The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

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Compete 72% connected

To contend emulously; to seek or strive for the same thing, position, or reward for which another is striving; to contend in rivalry, as for a prize…

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Contend 72% connected

To strive in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.

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Count 72% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Enumerate 72% connected

To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a s…

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Number 72% connected

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage m…

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Numerate 72% connected

To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

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Vie 72% connected

To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

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Synonym 18

Add 92% connected

To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).

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Agree 92% connected

In good part; kindly.

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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,…

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Correspond 92% connected

To be like something else in the dimensions and arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as, concurring figures correspond with each othe…

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Count 92% connected

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to comp…

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Counting 92% connected

of Count

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Enumeration 92% connected

The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.

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Fit 92% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Gibe 92% connected

To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.

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Jibe 92% connected

To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.

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Match 92% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Numeration 92% connected

The act or art of numbering.

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Reckoning 92% connected

of Reckon

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Run 92% connected

of Run

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Score 92% connected

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

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Sum 92% 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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Tot 92% connected

Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

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Total 92% connected

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss.

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