| aftertaste | (noun) an afterimage of a taste | - |
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| alabaster | (adjective) of or resembling alabaster | Synonyms: alabastrine |
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| (noun) a very light white | - |
| (noun) a compact fine-textured, usually white gypsum used for carving | - |
| (noun) a hard compact kind of calcite | Synonyms: Mexican onyx, onyx marble, oriental alabaster |
| aster | (noun) star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis | - |
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| (noun) any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus Aster with showy daisylike flowers | - |
| astereognosis | (noun) a loss of the ability to recognize objects by handling them | Synonyms: tactile agnosia |
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| asteriated | (adjective) (of some crystals especially gemstones) exhibiting asterism | - |
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| asterion | (noun) the craniometric point at the junction of the lamboid suture and the occipitomastoid suture and the parietomastoid suture | - |
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| asterisk | (noun) a star-shaped character * used in printing | Synonyms: star |
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| (verb) mark with an asterisk | Synonyms: star |
| asterisked | (adjective) marked with an asterisk | Synonyms: starred |
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| asterism | (noun) (astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation) | - |
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| (noun) (mineralogy) a star-shaped figure with six rays that is seen in some crystal structures under reflected or transmitted light | - |
| asterismal | (adjective) relating to asterisms or constellations | - |
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| astern | (adverb) (of a ship or an airplane) behind | - |
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| (adverb) at or near or toward the stern of a ship or tail of an airplane | Synonyms: abaft, aft |
| (adverb) stern foremost or backward | - |
| asternal | (adjective) not connected to the sternum or breastbone | - |
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| asteroid | (adjective) shaped like a star | Synonyms: star-shaped |
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| (noun) any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) | - |
| asteroidal | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling an asteroid | - |
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| bandmaster | (noun) the conductor of a band | - |
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| baste | (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: basting, basting stitch, tacking |
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| (verb) cover with liquid before cooking | - |
| (verb) sew together loosely, with large stitches | Synonyms: tack |
| (verb) strike violently and repeatedly | Synonyms: batter, clobber |
| baster | (noun) a tube with a rubber bulb used to take up and release melted fat or gravy in order to moisten roasting meat | - |
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| (noun) a sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches | Synonyms: tacker |
| (noun) a cook who bastes roasting meat with melted fat or gravy | - |
| beplaster | (verb) cover conspicuously or thickly, as by pasting something on | Synonyms: plaster |
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| blasted | (adjective) expletives used informally as intensifiers | Synonyms: blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal |
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| blastema | (noun) a mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops | - |
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| blastemal | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastematic, blastemic |
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| blastematic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastemic |
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| blastemic | (adjective) of or relating to blastemata | Synonyms: blastemal, blastematic |
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| blaster | (noun) a workman employed to blast with explosives | Synonyms: chargeman |
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| boaster | (noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, braggart, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
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| breasted | (adjective) having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds | - |
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| broadcaster | (noun) a mechanical device for scattering something (seed or fertilizer or sand etc.) in all directions | Synonyms: spreader |
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| (noun) someone who broadcasts on radio or television | - |
| burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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| cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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| caste | (noun) in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony | - |
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| (noun) a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth | - |
| (noun) (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity | - |
| (noun) social status or position conferred by a system based on class | - |
| casteless | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: outcaste |
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| castellated | (adjective) having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement | Synonyms: battlemented, castled, crenelated, embattled |
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| caster | (noun) a pivoting roller attached to the bottom of furniture or trucks or portable machines to make them movable | Synonyms: castor |
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| (noun) a shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling powdered sugar | Synonyms: castor |
| (noun) a worker who casts molten metal into finished products | - |
| cerastes | (noun) highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye | Synonyms: Cerastes cornutus, horned asp, horned viper, sand viper |
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| chaste | (adjective) morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse) | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from unlawful sexual intercourse | - |
| (adjective) pure and simple in design or style | - |
| chastely | (adverb) in a chaste and virtuous manner | Synonyms: virtuously |
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| chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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| (verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
| (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
| chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| choirmaster | (noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: cantor, precentor |
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| coaster | (noun) a covering (plate or mat) that protects the surface of a table (i.e., from the condensation on a cold glass or bottle) | - |
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| (noun) someone who coasts | - |
| (noun) a resident of a coastal area | - |
| conacaste | (noun) tropical South American tree having a wide-spreading crown of bipinnate leaves and coiled ear-shaped fruits; grown for shade and ornament as well as valuable timber | Synonyms: elephant's ear, Enterolobium cyclocarpa |
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| cotoneaster | (noun) any shrub of the genus Cotoneaster: erect or creeping shrubs having richly colored autumn foliage and many small white to pinkish flowers followed by tiny red or black fruits | - |
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| diastema | (noun) a gap or vacant space between two teeth | - |
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| disaster | (noun) an act that has disastrous consequences | - |
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| (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, tragedy |
| (noun) a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | Synonyms: catastrophe |
| distaste | (noun) a feeling of intense dislike | Synonyms: antipathy, aversion |
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| distasteful | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| (adjective) not pleasing in odor or taste | Synonyms: unsavory, unsavoury |
| distastefully | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, revoltingly, sickeningly |
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| (adverb) in an offensively distasteful manner | - |
| distastefulness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: odiousness, offensiveness |
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| (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
| easter | (noun) a wind from the east | Synonyms: east wind, easterly |
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| easterly | (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: eastern |
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| (adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: eastern |
| (noun) a wind from the east | Synonyms: east wind, easter |
| (adverb) from the east | - |
| eastern | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world | - |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States | - |
| (adjective) lying toward or situated in the east | - |
| (adjective) from the east; used especially of winds | Synonyms: easterly |
| (adjective) lying in or toward the east | Synonyms: easterly |
| easterner | (noun) an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S. | - |
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| easternmost | (adjective) farthest to the east | Synonyms: eastmost |
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| fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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| (verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
| (verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
| (verb) attach to | - |
| fastened | (adjective) firmly closed or secured | - |
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| (adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: buttoned |
| (adjective) fastened with strings or cords | Synonyms: tied |
| fastener | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastening, fixing, holdfast |
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| (noun) a person who fastens or makes fast | - |
| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| faster | (adverb) more quickly | Synonyms: quicker |
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| fastest | (adverb) most quickly | Synonyms: quickest |
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| fishpaste | (noun) a paste of fish or shellfish | - |
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| flabbergasted | (adjective) as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise | Synonyms: dumbfounded, dumbstricken, dumbstruck, dumfounded, stupefied, thunderstruck |
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| forecaster | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: predictor, prognosticator, soothsayer |
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| foretaste | (noun) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur | - |
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| gasteromycete | (noun) any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes | Synonyms: gastromycete |
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| grandmaster | (noun) a player of exceptional or world class skill in chess or bridge | - |
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| haste | (noun) the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner | Synonyms: hurry, rush, rushing |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: hastiness, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| (noun) a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry | Synonyms: hurry |
| hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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| (verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
| (verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
| (verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
| headmaster | (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: master, schoolmaster |
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| headmastership | (noun) the position of headmaster | - |
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| housemaster | (noun) teacher in charge of a school boardinghouse | - |
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| hypercoaster | (noun) a roller coaster that goes up 200 feet or higher and can catapult riders from 0 to 70 mph in 4 seconds by motors originally designed to launch rockets | - |
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| lambaste | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task, trounce |
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| (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: cane, flog, lambast |
| lockmaster | (noun) a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal) | Synonyms: lockkeeper, lockman |
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| mastectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor | - |
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| masted | (adjective) having or furnished with a mast; often used in combination | - |
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| master | (adjective) most important element | Synonyms: chief, main, primary, principal |
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| (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master copy, original |
| (noun) key that secures entrance everywhere | Synonyms: master key, passe-partout, passkey |
| (noun) an artist of consummate skill | Synonyms: maestro |
| (noun) a combatant who is able to defeat rivals | Synonyms: superior, victor |
| (noun) an authority qualified to teach apprentices | Synonyms: professional |
| (noun) directs the work of others | - |
| (noun) a person who has general authority over others | Synonyms: lord, overlord |
| (noun) someone who holds a master's degree from academic institution | - |
| (noun) presiding officer of a school | Synonyms: headmaster, schoolmaster |
| (noun) an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | Synonyms: captain, sea captain, skipper |
| (verb) have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of | Synonyms: control |
| (verb) be or become completely proficient or skilled in | Synonyms: get the hang |
| (verb) get on top of; deal with successfully | Synonyms: get over, overcome, subdue, surmount |
| (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: dominate |
| mastered | (adjective) understood perfectly | Synonyms: down, down pat |
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| masterful | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterly, virtuoso |
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| masterfully | (adverb) in a skillfully masterful manner; with the skill of a master | - |
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| mastering | (noun) the act of making a master recording from which copies can be made | - |
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| (noun) becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of | - |
| masterless | (adjective) having no lord or master | Synonyms: lordless |
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| masterly | (adjective) having or revealing supreme mastery or skill | Synonyms: consummate, masterful, virtuoso |
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| mastermind | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, originator |
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| (noun) someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality | Synonyms: brain, brainiac, Einstein, genius |
| (verb) plan and direct (a complex undertaking) | Synonyms: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize |
| masterpiece | (noun) an outstanding achievement | - |
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| (noun) the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman | Synonyms: chef-d'oeuvre |
| mastership | (noun) the position of master | - |
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| (noun) the skill of a master | - |
| masterstroke | (noun) an achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery | - |
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| masterwort | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: astrantia |
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| mastery | (noun) the act of mastering or subordinating someone | Synonyms: subordination |
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| (noun) great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity | Synonyms: command, control |
| (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, supremacy |
| monastery | (noun) the residence of a religious community | - |
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| newscaster | (noun) someone who broadcasts the news | - |
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| noreaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: northeaster |
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| northeaster | (noun) a storm blowing from the northeast | Synonyms: noreaster |
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| northeasterly | (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeastern |
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| (adjective) coming from the northeast | Synonyms: northeast |
| northeastern | (adjective) of a region of the United States generally including the New England states, New York, and sometimes New Jersey and Pennsylvania | - |
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| (adjective) situated in or oriented toward the northeast | Synonyms: northeast, northeasterly |
| oleaster | (noun) any of several shrubs of the genus Elaeagnus having silver-white twigs and yellow flowers followed by olivelike fruits | - |
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| outcaste | (adjective) not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society | Synonyms: casteless |
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| (noun) a person belonging to no caste | - |
| overmaster | (verb) overcome by superior force | Synonyms: overpower, overwhelm |
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| paste | (noun) a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes | Synonyms: spread |
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| (noun) an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard | Synonyms: library paste |
| (noun) any mixture of a soft and malleable consistency | - |
| (noun) a hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry | - |
| (verb) hit with the fists | - |
| (verb) join or attach with or as if with glue | Synonyms: glue |
| (verb) cover the surface of | - |
| pasteboard | (noun) stiff cardboard made by pasting together layers of paper | - |
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