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Tip

The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.

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Advise 76% connected

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

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Bend 76% connected

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

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Convexity 76% connected

The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness.

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Counsel 76% connected

Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

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Counseling 76% connected

of Counsel

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Counselling 76% connected

of Counsel

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Direction 76% connected

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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End 76% connected

The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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Flex 76% connected

To bend; as, to flex the arm.

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Force 76% connected

To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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Gift 76% connected

Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Give 76% connected

To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as authority or permission; to yield up o…

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Guidance 76% connected

The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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Perk 76% connected

To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.

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Perquisite 76% connected

Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; especially, a fee allowed by law…

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Place 76% connected

Any portion of space regarded as measured off or distinct from all other space, or appropriated to some definite object or use; position; ground; sit…

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Push 76% connected

A pustule; a pimple.

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Rede 76% connected

To advise or counsel.

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Remove 76% connected

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Reorient 76% connected

Rising again.

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Strike 76% connected

To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Take 76% connected

Taken.

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Terminal 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the end or extremity; forming the extremity; as, a terminal edge.

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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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Withdraw 76% connected

To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Manner of action 9

Bank 76% connected

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.

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Heel 76% connected

To lean or tip to one side, as a ship; as, the ship heels aport; the boat heeled over when the squall struck it.

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Incline 76% connected

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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List 76% connected

A line inclosing or forming the extremity of a piece of ground, or field of combat; hence, in the plural (lists), the ground or field inclosed for a…

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Percuss 76% connected

To strike smartly; to strike upon or against; as, to percuss the chest in medical examination.

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Pitch 76% connected

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas,…

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Recline 76% connected

To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.

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Slope 76% connected

An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface t…

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Weather 76% connected

The state of the air or atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness, or any other meteorologi…

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Narrower term 7

Beak 76% connected

The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is…

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Brow 76% connected

The prominent ridge over the eye, with the hair that covers it, forming an arch above the orbit.

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Cusp 76% connected

A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

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Head 76% connected

The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Hilltop 76% connected

The top of a hill.

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Pinnacle 76% connected

An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

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Tiptoe 76% connected

The end, or tip, of the toe.

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Derivationally related 6

Fall 74% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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Fall 74% connected

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; th…

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Sharpen 74% connected

To make sharp.

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Sharpen 74% connected

To make sharp.

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Slant 74% connected

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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Slant 74% connected

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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Containing whole 10

Alpenstock 70% connected

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.

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Arrowhead 70% connected

The head of an arrow.

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Blade 70% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Brand 70% connected

A burning piece of wood; or a stick or piece of wood partly burnt, whether burning or after the fire is extinct.

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Cone 70% connected

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right…

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Conoid 70% connected

Anything that has a form resembling that of a cone.

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Knife 70% connected

An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and…

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Pencil 70% connected

A small, fine brush of hair or bristles used by painters for laying on colors.

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Steel 70% connected

A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one…

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Sword 70% connected

An offensive weapon, having a long and usually sharp/pointed blade with a cutting edge or edges. It is the general term, including the small sword, r…

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Synonym 24

Angle 92% connected

The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.

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Backsheesh 92% connected

Alt. of Backshish

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Baksheesh 92% connected

Alt. of Bakshish

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Bakshish 92% connected

Same as Backsheesh.

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Bung 92% connected

The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

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Crest 92% connected

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthe…

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Crown 92% connected

of Crow

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Fee 92% connected

property; possession; tenure.

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Gratuity 92% connected

Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.

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Hint 92% connected

To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.

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Lead 92% connected

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though…

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Lean 92% connected

To conceal.

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Peak 92% connected

A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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Point 92% connected

To appoint.

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Slant 92% connected

To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.

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Steer 92% connected

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

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Summit 92% connected

The top; the highest point.

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Tap 92% connected

To strike with a slight or gentle blow; to touch gently; to rap lightly; to pat; as, to tap one with the hand or a cane.

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Tilt 92% connected

A covering overhead; especially, a tent.

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Tiptoe 92% connected

The end, or tip, of the toe.

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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,…

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Topple 92% connected

To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.

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Tumble 92% connected

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

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Wind 92% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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