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Yacht

A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.

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Boat 76% connected

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

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Vessel 76% connected

A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bo…

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Yachting 74% connected

Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.

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Yachting 74% connected

Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.

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Arbitration noun · 78% connection

The hearing and determination of a cause between parties in controversy, by a person or persons chosen by the parties.

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Barge noun · 78% connection

A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.

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Board noun · 78% connection

A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or…

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Boudoir noun · 78% connection

A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady…

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Bring verb · 78% connection

To convey to the place where the speaker is or is to be; to bear from a more distant to a nearer place; to fetch.

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Cabal noun · 78% connection

A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue;…

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Chase verb · 78% connection

An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private proper…

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Convey verb · 78% connection

To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.

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Courtly adverb · 78% connection

In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.

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Debonairly adverb · 78% connection

Courteously; elegantly.

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Dedimus noun · 78% connection

A writ to commission private persons to do some act in place of a judge, as to examine a witness, etc.

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Dioptrics noun · 78% connection

The science of the refraction of light; that part of geometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction of light in passing…

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Dispensatory noun · 78% connection

A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not…

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Enough adjective · 78% connection

Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which…

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Esoteric adjective · 78% connection

Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of follower…

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Federal adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations; constituted by a…

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Flash verb · 78% connection

To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on th…

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Gazelle noun · 78% connection

One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species of antelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called also algazel, corin…

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