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Torrent

A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.

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Batch 76% connected

The quantity of bread baked at one time.

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Current 76% connected

Running or moving rapidly.

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Deal 76% connected

A part or portion; a share; hence, an indefinite quantity, degree, or extent, degree, or extent; as, a deal of time and trouble; a deal of cold.

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Flock 76% connected

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…

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Heap 76% connected

A crowd; a throng; a multitude or great number of persons.

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Lot 76% connected

That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.

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Mass 76% connected

The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.

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Mess 76% connected

Mass; church service.

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Mickle 76% connected

Much; great.

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Mint 76% connected

The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

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Mountain 76% connected

A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an e…

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Muckle 76% connected

Much.

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Peck 76% connected

The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.

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Pile 76% connected

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet.

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Plenty 76% connected

Full or adequate supply; enough and to spare; sufficiency; specifically, abundant productiveness of the earth; ample supply for human wants; abundanc…

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Pot 76% connected

A metallic or earthen vessel, appropriated to any of a great variety of uses, as for boiling meat or vegetables, for holding liquids, for plants, etc…

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Raft 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Reave.

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Rain 76% connected

Reign.

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Rainfall 76% connected

A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.

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Sight 76% connected

The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

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Slew 76% connected

of Slay

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Spate 76% connected

A river flood; an overflow or inundation.

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Stack 76% connected

A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a poi…

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Stream 76% connected

A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel,…

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Wad 76% connected

Woad.

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Soak 74% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Soak 74% connected

To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the p…

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Synonym 8

Cloudburst 92% connected

a heavy rain

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Deluge 92% connected

A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.…

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Downpour 92% connected

A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

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Flood 92% connected

A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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Inundation 92% connected

The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.

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Pelter 92% connected

One who pelts.

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Soaker 92% connected

One who, or that which, soaks.

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Waterspout 92% connected

A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

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