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TOLERABLE |
Can be used |
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CLEANSE |
Eels can be used to remove dirt |
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MERCHANDISABLE |
Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise. |
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PATH |
Rafter, on second thoughts, can be used as a trail |
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XRAYS |
Ten beams of light can be used as diagnostic tests |
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MOATS |
There’s nothing in mats that can be used for castle defences |
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CAPITAL |
Anything which can be used to increase one's power or
influence. |
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EXTINCT |
What dinosaurs are (or used to be) can be seen with type of scan |
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MANAGEABLE |
Such as can be managed or used; suffering control;
governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. |
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BEDPAN |
A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be
used by a sick person in bed. |
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KEDGE |
A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed
witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n. |
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LOANABLE |
Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable
funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings. |
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CUTTER |
A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so
called from the facility with which it can be cut. |
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BRICOLE |
A kind of traces with hooks and rings, with which men drag
and maneuver guns where horses can not be used. |
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LEWISSON |
An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be
fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc. |
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CAPOC |
A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun,
used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc. |
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DISSIPATE |
To scatter completely; to disperse and cause to
disappear; -- used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never
again be collected or restored. |
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PARTICLE |
A subordinate word that is never inflected (a
preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used
except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely. |
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GLYPHOGRAPHY |
A process similar to etching, in which, by means of
voltaic electricity, a raised copy of a drawing is made, so that it can
be used to print from. |
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TIMER |
A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals
of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing
the speed of horses, machinery, etc. |
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EYELET |
A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends
of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to
line an eyelet hole. |
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SPAN |
A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be
hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both
ends can be used. |
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BLACKBOARD |
A broad board painted black, or any black surface on
which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be
done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools. |
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CHEIROPTERA |
An order of mammalia, including the bats, having
four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a
web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat. |
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INCOMPATIBLE |
An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which
can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical
composition or of oppo... |