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Accubation
noun · 78% connection
The act or posture of reclining on a couch, as practiced by the ancients at meals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Accumbent
adjective · 78% connection
Leaning or reclining, as the ancients did at their meals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Bed
noun · 78% connection
An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Bilateral
adjective · 78% connection
Having two sides; arranged upon two sides; affecting two sides or two parties.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Blockhouse
noun · 78% connection
An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper sto…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Boarder
noun · 78% connection
One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Boarding
noun · 78% connection
The act of supplying, or the state of being supplied, with regular or specified meals, or with meals and lodgings, for pay.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Collapse
verb · 78% connection
To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Compass
verb · 78% connection
To inclose on all sides; to surround; to encircle; to environ; to invest; to besiege; -- used with about, round, around, and round abo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Converse
noun · 78% connection
A proposition in which, after a conclusion from something supposed has been drawn, the order is inverted, making the conclusion the su…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Discumbency
noun · 78% connection
The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Inch
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechani…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Lute
noun · 78% connection
A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Orthocenter
noun · 78% connection
That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Recline
verb · 78% connection
Having a reclining posture; leaning; reclining.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Recumbent
adjective · 78% connection
Leaning; reclining; lying; as, the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals. Hence, figuratively; Resting; inactive; idle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Rotunda
adjective · 78% connection
A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very com…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
Round
preposition · 78% connection
On every side of, so as to encompass or encircle; around; about; as, the people atood round him; to go round the city; to wind a cable…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: couch, reclining, meals, extending, round.
