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Wart

A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

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Blemish 76% connected

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind.

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Bulge 76% connected

The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

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Bump 76% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Defect 76% connected

Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity.

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Excrescence 76% connected

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a tr…

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Extrusion 76% connected

The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.

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Hump 76% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

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Imperfection 76% connected

The quality or condition of being imperfect; want of perfection; incompleteness; deficiency; fault or blemish.

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Imperfectness 76% connected

The state of being imperfect.

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Jut 76% connected

To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

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Mar 76% connected

A small lake. See Mere.

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Prominence 76% connected

Alt. of Prominency

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Protrusion 76% connected

The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.

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Protuberance 76% connected

That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or kno…

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Swelling 76% connected

of Swell

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