afterpains | (noun) pains felt by a woman after her baby is born; associated with contractions of the uterus | - |
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buckskins | (noun) (used in the plural) breeches made of buckskin | - |
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candlepins | (noun) a bowling game using slender bowling pins | Synonyms: candlepin bowling |
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chains | (noun) metal shackles; for hands or legs | Synonyms: irons |
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chilblains | (noun) inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture | Synonyms: chilblain, pernio |
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chitlins | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitterlings |
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collins | (noun) tall iced drink of liquor (usually gin) with fruit juice | Synonyms: Tom Collins |
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cremains | (noun) the remains of a dead body after cremation | - |
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duckpins | (noun) a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider | - |
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gubbins | (noun) something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known | Synonyms: dojigger, doodad, doohickey, gimmick, gismo, gizmo, thingamabob, thingamajig, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummy, whatchamacallit, whatchamacallum, whatsis, widget |
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loins | (noun) the lower part of the abdomen just above the external genital organs | Synonyms: pubes, pubic region |
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(noun) the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen | - |
matins | (noun) the first canonical hour; at daybreak | Synonyms: morning prayer |
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muggins | (noun) a person who lacks good judgment | Synonyms: fool, sap, saphead, tomfool |
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ninepins | (noun) a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins | Synonyms: skittles |
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pains | (noun) an effortful attempt to attain a goal | Synonyms: nisus, strain, striving |
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remains | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: cadaver, clay, corpse, stiff |
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(noun) any object that is left unused or still extant | - |
(noun) a relic that has been excavated from the soil | Synonyms: archeological remains |
spillikins | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: jackstraws |
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tenpins | (noun) bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins | Synonyms: tenpin bowling |
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twins | (noun) (mineralogy) two interwoven crystals that are mirror images on each other | - |
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