Tendril: alternatives and connections

Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device…

One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another.

Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.

An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly c…

Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and b…

A genus of leafless trees or shrubs, with drooping branchlets of a rushlike appearance, mostly natives of Australia. Some of them are…

To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing.

To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts…

One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to p…

An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.

A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plan…

a temporary magnet made by coiling wire around an iron core; when current flows in the coil the iron becomes a magnet

Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.

A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of…

A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.

A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty s…

A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.

Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or…