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Antero-
unknown · 78% connection
A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Baldric
noun · 78% connection
A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Band
verb · 78% connection
Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Bandolier
noun · 78% connection
A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was use…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Belt
noun · 78% connection
Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Belted
adjective · 78% connection
Encircled by, or secured with, a belt; as, a belted plaid; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction; as, a belted knight; a belted…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Blockhouse
noun · 78% connection
An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
But
verb · 78% connection
A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, ins…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Calk
verb · 78% connection
To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Chasuble
noun · 78% connection
The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Clinker-built
adjective · 78% connection
Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the lower edge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it like cla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Corslet
noun · 78% connection
A corselet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Countermarch
noun · 78% connection
An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Coupling
noun · 78% connection
A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Curtain
noun · 78% connection
A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Feather-edged/
adjective · 78% connection
Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Femur
noun · 78% connection
The proximal segment of the hind limb containing the thigh bone; the thigh. See Coxa.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
Ferrous
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used of compounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as, ferrous sul…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: defense, front, thigh, consisting, iron.
