dowel | (noun) a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together | Synonyms: dowel pin, joggle |
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doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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dower | (noun) a life estate to which a wife is entitled on the death of her husband | - |
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(noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dowery, dowry, portion |
(verb) furnish with an endowment | Synonyms: endow |
dowered | (adjective) supplied with a dower or dowry | - |
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dowerless | (adjective) lacking a dowry | - |
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dowery | (noun) money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage | Synonyms: dower, dowry, portion |
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drawee | (noun) the person (or bank) who is expected to pay a check or draft when it is presented for payment | - |
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drawer | (noun) a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out | - |
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(noun) an artist skilled at drawing | Synonyms: draftsman |
(noun) the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else | - |
drawers | (noun) (used in the plural) underpants worn by women | Synonyms: bloomers, knickers, pants |
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(noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, boxershorts, shorts, underdrawers |
duckweed | (noun) any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds | - |
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dweeb | (noun) an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious | Synonyms: grind, nerd, swot, wonk |
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dwell | (verb) think moodily or anxiously about something | Synonyms: brood |
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(verb) come back to | Synonyms: harp |
(verb) be an inhabitant of or reside in | Synonyms: inhabit, live, populate |
(verb) originate (in) | Synonyms: consist, lie, lie in |
(verb) exist or be situated within | Synonyms: inhabit |
dweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, habitant, indweller, inhabitant |
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dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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dyeweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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edelweiss | (noun) alpine perennial plant native to Europe having leaves covered with whitish down and small flower heads held in stars of glistening whitish bracts | Synonyms: Leontopodium alpinum |
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embower | (verb) enclose in a bower | Synonyms: bower |
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empower | (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, authorize |
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(verb) give qualities or abilities to | Synonyms: endow, endue, gift, indue, invest |
empowered | (adjective) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter | Synonyms: sceptered, sceptred |
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empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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endowed | (adjective) provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature) | - |
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eveningwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, formalwear |
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ewe | (noun) female sheep | - |
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ewer | (noun) an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring | Synonyms: pitcher |
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fanweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, stinkweed, Thlaspi arvense |
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farewell | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: leave-taking, leave, parting |
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(noun) an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting | Synonyms: word of farewell |
featherweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, for fighters heavier than those in the bantamweight division and lighter than those in the lightweight division. | - |
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(noun) a professional boxer who weighs between 123 and 126 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs 126-139 pounds | - |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 126 pounds | - |
fewer | (adjective) (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of | - |
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fewest | (adjective) (superlative of `few' used with count nouns and usually preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the smallest in number | - |
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fingerflower | (noun) tall leafy European biennial or perennial having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; leaves yield drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, fairy bell, finger-flower, finger-root, fingerroot |
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firepower | (noun) (military) the relative capacity for delivering fire on a target | - |
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fireweed | (noun) tall North American perennial with creeping rootstocks and narrow leaves and spikes of pinkish-purple flowers occurring in great abundance in burned-over areas or recent clearings; an important honey plant | Synonyms: Epilobium angustifolium, giant willowherb, rosebay willowherb, wickup |
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(noun) an American weedy plant with small white or greenish flowers | Synonyms: Erechtites hieracifolia |
flameflower | (noun) plant with fleshy roots and erect stems with narrow succulent leaves and one reddish-orange flower in each upper leaf axil; southwestern United States; Indians once cooked the fleshy roots | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, Talinum aurantiacum |
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(noun) a plant of the genus Kniphofia having long grasslike leaves and tall scapes of red or yellow drooping flowers | Synonyms: flame-flower, flame flower, kniphofia, tritoma |
flamethrower | (noun) a weapon that squirts ignited fuel for several yards | - |
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flawed | (adjective) having a blemish or flaw | Synonyms: blemished |
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flower | (noun) a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms | - |
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(noun) reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
(verb) produce or yield flowers | Synonyms: bloom, blossom |
flowerbed | (noun) a bed in which flowers are growing | Synonyms: bed of flowers, flower bed |
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flowered | (adjective) resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers | Synonyms: floral |
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floweret | (noun) a diminutive flower (especially one that is part of a composite flower) | Synonyms: floret |
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flowering | (adjective) when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms | - |
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(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
(noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
flowerless | (adjective) without flower or bloom and not producing seeds | Synonyms: nonflowering |
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flowerpot | (noun) a container in which plants are cultivated | Synonyms: pot |
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flowery | (adjective) of or relating to or suggestive of flowers | - |
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(adjective) marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details | Synonyms: ornate |
flyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the lightest. | - |
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(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 112 pounds | - |
(noun) weighs no more than 115 pounds | - |
foamflower | (noun) stoloniferous white-flowered spring-blooming woodland plant | Synonyms: coolwart, false miterwort, false mitrewort, Tiarella cordifolia |
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follower | (noun) a person who accepts the leadership of another | - |
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(noun) someone who travels behind or pursues another | - |
followers | (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: following |
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footwear | (noun) covering for a person's feet | Synonyms: footgear |
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(noun) clothing worn on a person's feet | - |
foreswear | (verb) turn away from; give up | Synonyms: quit, relinquish, renounce |
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(verb) do without or cease to hold or adhere to | Synonyms: dispense with, forego, forgo, relinquish, waive |
formalwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, eveningwear |
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forswear | (verb) formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure | Synonyms: abjure, recant, resile, retract |
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forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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frostweed | (noun) perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers; so-called because ice crystals form on it during first frosts | Synonyms: Crocanthemum canadense, frost-weed, frostwort, Helianthemum canadense |
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(noun) tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: frost-weed, Verbesina virginica, Virginia crownbeard |
furrowed | (adjective) having long narrow shallow depressions (as grooves or wrinkles) in the surface | Synonyms: rugged |
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gillyflower | (noun) Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | Synonyms: carnation, clove pink, Dianthus caryophyllus |
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(noun) any of several Old World plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers | Synonyms: stock |
glassblower | (noun) someone skilled in blowing bottles from molten glass | - |
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globeflower | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Trollius having globose yellow flowers | Synonyms: globe flower |
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glower | (noun) an angry stare | Synonyms: glare |
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(verb) look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval | Synonyms: frown, lour, lower |
(verb) look at with a fixed gaze | Synonyms: glare |
glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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gloweringly | (adverb) in a glowering manner | - |
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gnawer | (noun) relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | Synonyms: rodent |
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gravelweed | (noun) perennial herb with yellow flowers; southern and south central United States | Synonyms: Verbesina helianthoides |
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greenweed | (noun) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental | Synonyms: dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen |
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gromwell | (noun) European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands | Synonyms: Lithospermum officinale |
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grower | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, raiser |
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gulfweed | (noun) brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | Synonyms: sargasso, sargassum, Sargassum bacciferum |
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gumweed | (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, rosinweed, tarweed |
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gypsyweed | (noun) common hairy European perennial with pale blue or lilac flowers in axillary racemes | Synonyms: common speedwell, Veronica officinalis |
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hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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hallowed | (adjective) worthy of religious veneration | Synonyms: sacred |
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handwear | (noun) clothing for the hands | Synonyms: hand wear |
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hawkweed | (noun) any of numerous often hairy plants of the genus Hieracium having yellow or orange flowers that resemble the dandelion | - |
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(noun) any of various plants of the genus Pilosella | - |
heavyweight | (noun) A weight class division in combat sports, often the heaviest. | Synonyms: super heavyweight |
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(noun) a person of exceptional importance and reputation | Synonyms: behemoth, colossus, giant, titan |
(noun) a professional boxer who weighs more than 190 pounds | - |
(noun) a wrestler who weighs more than 214 pounds | - |
(noun) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities | Synonyms: giant, hulk, whale |
(noun) an amateur boxer who weighs no more than 201 pounds | - |
helmetflower | (noun) a herbaceous plant of the genus Scutellaria which has a calyx that, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised | Synonyms: skullcap |
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(noun) a poisonous herb native to northern Europe having hooded blue-purple flowers; the dried leaves and roots yield aconite | Synonyms: Aconitum napellus, helmet flower, monkshood |
(noun) any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process | Synonyms: helmet orchid |
hewer | (noun) a person who hews | - |
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highbrowed | (adjective) highly cultured or educated | Synonyms: highbrow |
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hogweed | (noun) tall coarse plant having thick stems and cluster of white to purple flowers | Synonyms: cow parsnip, Heracleum sphondylium |
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honeyflower | (noun) Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously | Synonyms: honey-flower, Protea mellifera |
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(noun) erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar | Synonyms: honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil |
horsepower | (noun) a unit of power equal to 746 watts | Synonyms: H.P., HP |
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horseweed | (noun) common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; widely naturalized throughout temperate regions; sometimes placed in genus Erigeron | Synonyms: Canadian fleabane, Conyza canadensis, Erigeron canadensis, fleabane |
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(noun) erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers; the eastern United States | Synonyms: Collinsonia canadensis, horse balm, richweed, stone-root, stone root, stoneroot |
however | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, nevertheless, nonetheless, notwithstanding, still, withal, yet |
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(adverb) in whatever way or manner | - |
(adverb) to whatever degree or extent | - |
(adverb) by contrast; on the other hand | - |
hundredweight | (noun) a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds | Synonyms: cwt, long hundredweight |
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(noun) a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds | Synonyms: cental, centner, cwt, quintal, short hundredweight |
(noun) a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system | Synonyms: centner, doppelzentner, metric hundredweight |
indwell | (verb) to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle | - |
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indweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant |
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(noun) activation by an inner spirit or force or principle | - |
indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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interviewee | (noun) a person who is interviewed | - |
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interviewer | (noun) a person who conducts an interview | - |
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interweave | (verb) interlace by or as if by weaving | Synonyms: weave |
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inweave | (verb) weave together into a fabric or design | - |
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ironweed | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Vernonia of tropical and warm regions of especially North America that take their name from their loose heads of purple to rose flowers that quickly take on a rusty hue | Synonyms: vernonia |
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jawed | (adjective) of animals having jaws of a specified type | - |
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jewel | (noun) a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem, precious stone |
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(noun) a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry | Synonyms: gem |
(verb) adorn or decorate with precious stones | Synonyms: bejewel |
jeweled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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jeweler | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller |
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(noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweller, jewelry maker |
jewelled | (adjective) covered with beads or jewels or sequins | Synonyms: beady, gemmed, jeweled, sequined, spangled, spangly |
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jeweller | (noun) someone in the business of selling jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler |
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(noun) someone who makes jewelry | Synonyms: jeweler, jewelry maker |
jewellery | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewelry |
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jewelry | (noun) an adornment (as a bracelet or ring or necklace) made of precious metals and set with gems (or imitation gems) | Synonyms: jewellery |
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jewelweed | (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: celandine, Impatiens capensis, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
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