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Treat

To handle; to manage; to use; to bear one's self toward; as, to treat prisoners cruelly; to treat children kindly.

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Verb group 18

Comprehend 84% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Comprehend 84% connected

To contain; to embrace; to include; as, the states comprehended in the Austrian Empire.

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Cover 84% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Cover 84% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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Deal 84% 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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Deal 84% 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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Embrace 84% connected

To fasten on, as armor.

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Embrace 84% connected

To fasten on, as armor.

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Encompass 84% connected

To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a…

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Encompass 84% connected

To circumscribe or go round so as to surround closely; to encircle; to inclose; to environ; as, a ring encompasses the finger; an army encompasses a…

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Handle 84% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Handle 84% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Plow 84% connected

Alt. of Plough

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Plow 84% connected

Alt. of Plough

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Regale 84% connected

A prerogative of royalty.

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Regale 84% connected

A prerogative of royalty.

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Manner of action 87

Abuse 76% connected

To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to ma…

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Administer 76% connected

To manage or conduct, as public affairs; to direct or superintend the execution, application, or conduct of; as, to administer the government or the…

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Aerate 76% connected

To combine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air.

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Alcoholize 76% connected

To reduce to a fine powder.

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Analyse 76% connected

Alt. of Analyser

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Analyze 76% connected

To subject to analysis; to resolve (anything complex) into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of…

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Baby 76% connected

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

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Bemock 76% connected

To mock; to ridicule.

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Beneficiate 76% connected

To reduce (ores).

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Bituminize 76% connected

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

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Bleed 76% connected

To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

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Bromate 76% connected

A salt of bromic acid.

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Brominate 76% connected

See Bromate, v. t.

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Brutalize 76% connected

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

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Burn 76% connected

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Camphorate 76% connected

To impregnate or treat with camphor.

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Carbonate 76% connected

A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.

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Cauterize 76% connected

To burn or sear with a cautery or caustic.

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Chlorinate 76% connected

To treat, or cause to combine, with chlorine.

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Chrome 76% connected

Same as Chromium.

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Cocker 76% connected

To treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper.

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Coddle 76% connected

To parboil, or soften by boiling.

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Correct 76% connected

Set right, or made straight; hence, conformable to truth, rectitude, or propriety, or to a just standard; not faulty or imperfect; free from error; a…

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Cosset 76% connected

A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

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Creosote 76% connected

Wood-tar oil; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure.…

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Cup 76% connected

A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, c…

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Curry 76% connected

To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

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Cut 76% connected

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Digest 76% connected

To distribute or arrange methodically; to work over and classify; to reduce to portions for ready use or application; as, to digest the laws, etc.

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Discourse 76% connected

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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Discuss 76% connected

To break to pieces; to shatter.

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Dispense 76% connected

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispens…

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Disregard 76% connected

Not to regard; to pay no heed to; to omit to take notice of; to neglect to observe; to slight as unworthy of regard or notice; as, to disregard the a…

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Doctor 76% connected

A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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Dose 76% connected

The quantity of medicine given, or prescribed to be taken, at one time.

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Dress 76% connected

To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.

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Feast 76% connected

A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

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Feed 76% connected

of Fee

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Fume 76% connected

Exhalation; volatile matter (esp. noxious vapor or smoke) ascending in a dense body; smoke; vapor; reek; as, the fumes of tobacco.

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Fumigate 76% connected

To apply smoke to; to expose to smoke or vapor; to purify, or free from infection, by the use of smoke or vapors.

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Ignore 76% connected

To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.

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Indulge 76% connected

To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain

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Iodize 76% connected

To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, to iodize a plate for photography.

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Irradiate 76% connected

To throw rays of light upon; to illuminate; to brighten; to adorn with luster.

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Irrigate 76% connected

To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.

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Leech 76% connected

See 2d Leach.

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Malt 76% connected

Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in…

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Maltreat 76% connected

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

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Manipulate 76% connected

To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate…

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Massage 76% connected

A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.

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Medicate 76% connected

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.

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Medicine 76% connected

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

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Mistreat 76% connected

To treat amiss; to abuse.

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Mock 76% connected

To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.

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Nitrate 76% connected

A salt of nitric acid.

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Nitrify 76% connected

To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

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Nitrogenize 76% connected

To combine, or impregnate, with nitrogen or its compounds.

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Nurse 76% connected

One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles a…

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Operate 76% connected

To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.

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Oxygenate 76% connected

To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat with oxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).

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Oxygenize 76% connected

To oxidize.

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Pack 76% connected

A pact.

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Pamper 76% connected

To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.

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Phlebotomize 76% connected

To let blood from by opening a vein; to bleed.

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Propagate 76% connected

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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Purge 76% connected

To cleanse, clear, or purify by separating and carrying off whatever is impure, heterogeneous, foreign, or superfluous.

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Ray 76% connected

To array.

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Refine 76% connected

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to…

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Relieve 76% connected

To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise.

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Remedy 76% connected

That which relieves or cures a disease; any medicine or application which puts an end to disease and restores health; -- with for; as, a remedy for t…

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Run 76% connected

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Scald 76% connected

To burn with hot liquid or steam; to pain or injure by contact with, or immersion in, any hot fluid; as, to scald the hand.

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Seed 76% connected

of Seed

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Snub 76% connected

To sob with convulsions.

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Splint 76% connected

A piece split off; a splinter.

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Spoil 76% connected

To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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Step 76% connected

To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in successio…

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Sulfur 76% connected

Open the dictionary entry to review the exact meaning.

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Sulphur 76% connected

A nonmetallic element occurring naturally in large quantities, either combined as in the sulphides (as pyrites) and sulphates (as gypsum), or native…

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Tank 76% connected

A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls.

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Theologize 76% connected

To render theological; to apply to divinity; to reduce to a system of theology.

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Transfuse 76% connected

To pour, as liquid, out of one vessel into another; to transfer by pouring.

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Vulcanize 76% connected

To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, by the process of vulcanization.

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Wine 76% connected

The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it…

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Wrong 76% connected

imp. of Wring. Wrung.

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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Aliment 76% connected

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: suste…

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Alimentation 76% connected

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

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Broach 76% connected

A spit.

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Cater 76% connected

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer.

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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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Handle 76% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

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Happening 76% connected

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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Initiate 76% connected

To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon.

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Interact 76% connected

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.

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Nourishment 76% connected

The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.

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Nutriment 76% connected

That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.

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Nutrition 76% connected

In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in i…

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Occurrence 76% connected

A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision.

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Occurrent 76% connected

Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.

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Ply 76% connected

To bend.

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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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Provide 76% connected

To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare.

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React 76% connected

To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.

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Respond 76% connected

To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.

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Supply 76% connected

To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an a…

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Sustenance 76% connected

The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Victuals 76% connected

Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

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Ambrosia 76% connected

The fabled food of the gods (as nectar was their drink), which conferred immortality upon those who partook of it.

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Confection 76% connected

A composition of different materials.

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Gelatin 76% connected

Alt. of Gelatine

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Jelly 76% connected

Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin…

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Marrow 76% connected

The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is m…

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Nectar 76% connected

The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.

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Savory 76% connected

Pleasing to the organs of taste or smell.

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Sweet 76% connected

Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet orang…

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Tidbit 76% connected

A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.

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Titbit 76% connected

Same as Tidbit.

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Treater 74% connected

One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Treater 74% connected

One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Address 92% connected

To aim; to direct.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cover 92% connected

To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Dainty 92% connected

Value; estimation; the gratification or pleasure taken in anything.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Deal 92% 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.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Delicacy 92% connected

The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Goody 92% connected

A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Handle 92% connected

To touch; to feel with the hand; to use or hold with the hand.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Kickshaw 92% connected

See Kickshaws, the correct singular.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Plow 92% connected

Alt. of Plough

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Process 92% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Regale 92% connected

A prerogative of royalty.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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