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That which limits the extent of anything; limit; extremity; bound; boundary.

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Call 76% connected

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

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Constituent 76% connected

Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component.

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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.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Quantity 76% connected

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

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Statement 76% connected

The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.

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Statue 76% connected

The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a…

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Word 76% connected

The spoken sign of a conception or an idea; an articulate or vocal sound, or a combination of articulate and vocal sounds, uttered by the human voice…

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Incumbency 76% connected

The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.

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Predicate 76% connected

To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.

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Sentence 76% connected

Sense; meaning; significance.

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Session 76% connected

The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

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Subject 76% connected

Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.

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Tenure 76% connected

The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate.

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Time 76% connected

Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.

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Containing whole 4

Agreement 70% connected

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the mem…

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Gestation 70% connected

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).

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Proposition 70% connected

The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.

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Condition 92% connected

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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Terminus 92% connected

Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

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