| afterglow | (noun) the pleasure of remembering some pleasant event | - |
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| (noun) a glow sometimes seen in the sky after sunset | - |
| aircrew | (noun) the crew of an aircraft | Synonyms: air crew |
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| airflow | (noun) the flow of air | Synonyms: air flow, flow of air |
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| airscrew | (noun) a propeller that rotates to push against air | Synonyms: airplane propeller, prop |
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| arrow | (noun) a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow | - |
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| (noun) a mark to indicate a direction or relation | Synonyms: pointer |
| backflow | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflowing |
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| backsaw | (noun) a handsaw that is stiffened by metal reinforcement along the upper edge | Synonyms: back saw |
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| bandsaw | (noun) an endless saw consisting of a toothed metal band that is driven around two wheels | Synonyms: band saw |
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| barrow | (noun) a cart for carrying small loads; has handles and one or more wheels | Synonyms: garden cart, lawn cart, wheelbarrow |
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| (noun) (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs | Synonyms: burial mound, grave mound, tumulus |
| (noun) the quantity that a barrow will hold | Synonyms: barrowful |
| bedfellow | (noun) a person with whom you share a bed | Synonyms: bedmate |
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| (noun) a temporary associate | - |
| bedstraw | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Galium | - |
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| bellow | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| billow | (noun) a large sea wave | Synonyms: surge |
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| blow | (noun) a powerful stroke with the fist or a weapon | - |
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| (noun) forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth | Synonyms: puff |
| (noun) street names for cocaine | Synonyms: C, coke, nose candy, snow |
| (noun) an impact (as from a collision) | Synonyms: bump |
| (noun) an unpleasant or disappointing surprise | Synonyms: shock |
| (noun) an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating | Synonyms: black eye, reversal, reverse, setback |
| (noun) a strong current of air | Synonyms: blast, gust |
| bow | (noun) a stroke with a curved piece of wood with taut horsehair strands that is used in playing stringed instruments | - |
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| (noun) a slightly curved piece of resilient wood with taut horsehair strands; used in playing certain stringed instruments | - |
| (noun) a weapon for shooting arrows, composed of a curved piece of resilient wood with a taut cord to propel the arrow | - |
| (noun) a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces | Synonyms: bowknot |
| (noun) a decorative interlacing of ribbons | - |
| (noun) something curved in shape | Synonyms: arc |
| (noun) front part of a vessel or aircraft | Synonyms: fore, prow, stem |
| (noun) an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience | Synonyms: curtain call |
| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bowing, obeisance |
| brew | (noun) drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling | Synonyms: brewage |
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| brow | (noun) the part of the face above the eyes | Synonyms: forehead |
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| (noun) the arch of hair above each eye | Synonyms: eyebrow, supercilium |
| (noun) the peak of a hill | Synonyms: hilltop |
| bucksaw | (noun) a saw that is set in a frame in the shape of an H; used with both hands to cut wood that is held in a sawbuck | - |
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| bungalow | (noun) a small house with a single story | Synonyms: cottage |
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| burrow | (noun) a hole made by an animal, usually for shelter | Synonyms: tunnel |
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| bylaw | (noun) a rule adopted by an organization in order to regulate its own affairs and the behavior of its members | - |
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| cashew | (noun) kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted | Synonyms: cashew nut |
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| (noun) tropical American evergreen tree bearing kidney-shaped nuts that are edible only when roasted | Synonyms: Anacardium occidentale, cashew tree |
| catclaw | (noun) erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida | Synonyms: black bead, cat's-claw, Pithecellobium unguis-cati |
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| caw | (noun) the sound made by corvine birds | - |
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| chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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| chaw | (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chew, cud, plug, quid, wad |
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| chew | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chewing, manduction, mastication |
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| (noun) a wad of something chewable as tobacco | Synonyms: chaw, cud, plug, quid, wad |
| chow | (noun) breed of medium-sized dogs with a thick coat and fluffy curled tails and distinctive blue-black tongues; believed to have originated in northern China | Synonyms: chow chow |
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| (noun) informal terms for a meal | Synonyms: chuck, eats, grub |
| chowchow | (noun) a Chinese preserve of mixed fruits and ginger | - |
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| (noun) chopped pickles in mustard sauce | - |
| claw | (noun) sharp curved horny process on the toe of a bird or some mammals or reptiles | - |
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| (noun) a bird's foot | - |
| (noun) a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods | Synonyms: chela, nipper, pincer |
| (noun) a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something | Synonyms: hook |
| clerihew | (noun) a witty satiric verse containing two rhymed couplets and mentioning a famous person | - |
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| clew | (noun) evidence that helps to solve a problem | Synonyms: clue, cue |
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| (noun) a ball of yarn or cord or thread | - |
| cockcrow | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| coleslaw | (noun) basically shredded cabbage | Synonyms: slaw |
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| corkscrew | (noun) a bottle opener that pulls corks | Synonyms: bottle screw |
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| counterblow | (noun) a return blow; a retaliatory blow | - |
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| counterglow | (noun) a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of sunlight by micrometeoric material in space | Synonyms: gegenschein |
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| cow | (noun) female of domestic cattle: | Synonyms: moo-cow |
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| (noun) mature female of mammals of which the male is called `bull' | - |
| (noun) a large unpleasant woman | - |
| craw | (noun) a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food | Synonyms: crop |
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| crew | (noun) an organized group of workmen | Synonyms: gang, work party |
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| (noun) the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.) | - |
| (noun) the team of men or women manning a racing shell | - |
| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crowd, gang |
| crossbow | (noun) a bow fixed transversely on a wooden stock grooved to direct the arrow (quarrel) | - |
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| crow | (noun) black birds having a raucous call | - |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| (noun) the cry of a cock (or an imitation of it) | - |
| curassow | (noun) large crested arboreal game bird of warm parts of the Americas having long legs and tails; highly esteemed as game and food | - |
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| curfew | (noun) a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions | - |
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| (noun) an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited | - |
| (noun) the time that the curfew signal is sounded | - |
| curlew | (noun) large migratory shorebirds of the sandpiper family; closely related to woodcocks but having a down-curved bill | - |
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| cushaw | (noun) globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind | - |
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| (noun) plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds | Synonyms: Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta |
| daw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, jackdaw |
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| deathblow | (noun) the blow that kills (usually mercifully) | Synonyms: coup de grace |
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| dew | (noun) water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air | - |
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| dhow | (noun) a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs | - |
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| draw | (noun) the act of drawing or hauling something | Synonyms: haul, haulage |
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| (noun) poker in which a player can discard cards and receive substitutes from the dealer | Synonyms: draw poker |
| (noun) (American football) the quarterback moves back as if to pass and then hands the ball to the fullback who is running toward the line of scrimmage | Synonyms: draw play |
| (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: hook, hooking |
| (noun) a playing card or cards dealt or taken from the pack | - |
| (noun) anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random | Synonyms: lot |
| (noun) the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided | Synonyms: standoff, tie |
| (noun) a gully that is shallower than a ravine | - |
| (noun) an entertainer who attracts large audiences | Synonyms: attracter, attraction, attractor, drawing card |
| elbow | (noun) the joint of a mammal or bird that corresponds to the human elbow | - |
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| (noun) the part of a sleeve that covers the elbow joint | - |
| (noun) a sharp bend in a road or river | - |
| (noun) a length of pipe with a sharp bend in it | - |
| (noun) hinge joint between the forearm and upper arm and the corresponding joint in the forelimb of a quadruped | Synonyms: articulatio cubiti, cubital joint, cubitus, elbow joint, human elbow |
| escrow | (noun) a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition | - |
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| eyebrow | (noun) the arch of hair above each eye | Synonyms: brow, supercilium |
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| eyeshadow | (noun) makeup consisting of a cosmetic substance used to darken the eyes | - |
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| fallow | (noun) cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons | - |
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| farrow | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrowing |
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| fellow | (noun) a boy or man | Synonyms: blighter, bloke, chap, cuss, fella, feller, gent, lad |
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| (noun) a man who is the lover of a man or woman | Synonyms: beau, boyfriend, swain |
| (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, companion, comrade, familiar |
| (noun) a person who is member of one's class or profession | Synonyms: colleague, confrere |
| (noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: buster, dude |
| (noun) a member of a learned society | - |
| (noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: mate |
| feverfew | (noun) bushy aromatic European perennial herb having clusters of buttonlike white-rayed flower heads; valued traditionally for medicinal uses; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum | Synonyms: Chrysanthemum parthenium, Tanacetum parthenium |
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| few | (noun) a small elite group | - |
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| flaw | (noun) an imperfection in an object or machine | Synonyms: defect, fault |
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| (noun) defect or weakness in a person's character | - |
| (noun) an imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness | - |
| floorshow | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: cabaret, floor show |
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| flow | (noun) the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression | Synonyms: stream |
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| (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flowing |
| (noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: current, stream |
| (noun) any uninterrupted stream or discharge | - |
| (noun) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | Synonyms: catamenia, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period |
| (noun) something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously | Synonyms: stream |
| (noun) the amount of fluid that flows in a given time | Synonyms: flow rate, rate of flow |
| forepaw | (noun) front paw; analogous to the human hand | - |
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| fretsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: jigsaw, scroll saw |
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| furbelow | (noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: flounce, frill, ruffle |
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| furrow | (noun) a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow) | - |
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| (noun) a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface | Synonyms: crease, crinkle, line, seam, wrinkle |
| gangsaw | (noun) a power saw that has several parallel blades making simultaneous cuts | - |
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| gewgaw | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, novelty, trinket |
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| glow | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: luminescence |
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| (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, lambency |
| (noun) a feeling of considerable warmth | - |
| (noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: incandescence |
| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glowing, radiance |
| (noun) a steady even light without flames | - |
| (noun) an alert and refreshed state | Synonyms: freshness |
| grandnephew | (noun) a son of your niece or nephew | Synonyms: great-nephew |
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| guffaw | (noun) a burst of deep loud hearty laughter | Synonyms: belly laugh |
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| hacksaw | (noun) saw used with one hand for cutting metal | Synonyms: hack saw, metal saw |
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| handbarrow | (noun) a rectangular frame with handles at both ends; carried by two people | - |
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| handbow | (noun) a bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow | - |
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| handsaw | (noun) a saw used with one hand for cutting wood | Synonyms: carpenter's saw, hand saw |
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| harrow | (noun) a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil | - |
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| haw | (noun) the nictitating membrane of a horse | - |
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| (noun) a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus | Synonyms: hawthorn |
| hawkshaw | (noun) someone who is a detective | Synonyms: dick, gumshoe |
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| haymow | (noun) a loft in a barn where hay is stored | Synonyms: hayloft, mow |
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| (noun) a mass of hay piled up in a barn for preservation | - |
| hedgerow | (noun) a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes | Synonyms: hedge |
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| highbrow | (noun) a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | - |
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| hollow | (noun) a depression hollowed out of solid matter | Synonyms: hole |
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| (noun) a small valley between mountains | Synonyms: holler |
| (noun) a cavity or space in something | - |
| homebrew | (noun) an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home | Synonyms: home brew |
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| honeydew | (noun) a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. | - |
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| (noun) the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | Synonyms: honeydew melon |
| hoosegow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosgow |
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| hoosgow | (noun) slang for a jail | Synonyms: hoosegow |
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| horseshow | (noun) a competitive exhibition of horses | - |
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| inflow | (noun) the process of flowing in | Synonyms: influx |
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| interview | (noun) a conference (usually with someone important) | Synonyms: audience, consultation |
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| (noun) the questioning of a person (or a conversation in which information is elicited); often conducted by journalists | - |
| isaw | (noun) a street food from the Philippines, made from barbecued pig or chicken intestines | - |
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| jackdaw | (noun) common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery | Synonyms: Corvus monedula, daw |
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| jackscrew | (noun) screw-operated jack | Synonyms: screw jack |
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| jackstraw | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: spillikin |
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| jaw | (noun) holding device consisting of one or both of the opposing parts of a tool that close to hold an object | - |
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| (noun) the part of the skull of a vertebrate that frames the mouth and holds the teeth | - |
| (noun) the bones of the skull that frame the mouth and serve to open it; the bones that hold the teeth | - |
| jigsaw | (noun) fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines | Synonyms: fretsaw, scroll saw |
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| (noun) a portable power saw with a reciprocating blade; can be used with a variety of blades depending on the application and kind of cut; generally have a plate that rides on the surface that is being cut | Synonyms: reciprocating saw, saber saw |
| kickshaw | (noun) something considered choice to eat | Synonyms: dainty, delicacy, goody, treat |
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| know | (noun) the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people | - |
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| kotow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kowtow |
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| kowtow | (noun) a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission | Synonyms: kotow |
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