Valve: alternatives and connections

One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.

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To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

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To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.

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To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

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See Puppet.

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The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand.

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A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp.

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A little valve or fold; a valvelet; a valvule.

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A little valve; a valvelet.

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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One who, or that which, controls or restraines; one who has power or authority to regulate or control; one who governs.

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That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

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Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.

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Of or pertaining to a valve or valves; specifically (Med.), of or pertaining to the valves of the heart; as, valvular disease.

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A little valve; a valvelet.

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A little valve; a valvelet.

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An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

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A low shoe with a thin sole.

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One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.

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Any wheel worked by hand; esp., one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted.

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