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Teetotum

A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.

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Plaything 76% connected

A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Toy 76% connected

A plaything for children; a bawble.

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Top 92% connected

A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Whirligig 92% connected

A child's toy, spun or whirled around like a wheel upon an axis, or like a top.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Aard-vark noun · 78% connection

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the gr…

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Adopt verb · 78% connection

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

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Adoption noun · 78% connection

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

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Affiliate verb · 78% connection

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

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Alcyonium noun · 78% connection

A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used for cert…

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Amber seed unknown · 78% connection

Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of…

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Amphidromical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the…

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Auf noun · 78% connection

A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.

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Bastard noun · 78% connection

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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Child noun · 78% connection

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

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Childish adjective · 78% connection

Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.

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Childlike adjective · 78% connection

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

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Childly adjective · 78% connection

Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.

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Cinerescent adjective · 78% connection

Somewhat cinereous; of a color somewhat resembling that of wood ashes.

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Conico- adjective · 78% connection

A combining form, meaning somewhat resembling a cone; as, conico-cylindrical, resembling a cone and a cylinder; conico-hemispherical;…

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Digital adjective · 78% connection

Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.

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Educate verb · 78% connection

To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly…

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Fiddle verb · 78% connection

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifl…

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