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Abdest
noun · 78% connection
Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Ablution
noun · 78% connection
The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Ana
adverb · 78% connection
Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Anchor
noun · 78% connection
Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Balloon
noun · 78% connection
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Basin
noun · 78% connection
A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Blackstrap
noun · 78% connection
Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Cruet
noun · 78% connection
A vessel used to hold wine, oil, or water for the service of the altar.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Crust
noun · 78% connection
An incrustation on the interior of wine bottles, the result of the ripening of the wine; a deposit of tartar, etc. See Beeswing.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Cup
noun · 78% connection
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 porc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Custody
noun · 78% connection
(with ‘in’) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hand…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Etherin
noun · 78% connection
A white, crystalline hydrocarbon, regarded as a polymeric variety of ethylene, obtained in heavy oil of wine, the residue left after m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Factorize
verb · 78% connection
To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he sh…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Fiddle
verb · 78% connection
To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Finish
noun · 78% connection
(wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed); "the wine has a nutty flavor and a pleasant finish"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Handling
noun · 78% connection
A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
Hardness
noun · 78% connection
The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, water, washing, hands, hold.
