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FEW |
Small number |
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FEWER |
A small number |
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SEVERAL |
A small number |
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DOZEN |
An indefinite small number. |
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ONE |
Safe was holding a small number |
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LOW |
Numerically small; as, a low number. |
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SWEETEN |
Direction to have small number add stevia |
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ASPERSED |
Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or
strewed over the surface. |
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SWARM |
A large number or mass of small animals or insects,
especially when in motion. |
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CROWFOOT |
A number of small cords rove through a long block, or
euphroe, to suspend an awning by. |
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VOLLEY |
A flight of missiles, as arrows, bullets, or the like; the
simultaneous discharge of a number of small arms. |
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NUMMULITES |
A genus of extinct Tertiary Foraminifera, having a
thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers
arranged spirally. |
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ARCHIPELAGO |
The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating
Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small
islands. |
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DENTIL |
A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of
which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the
Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders. |
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THOUSANDTH |
Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very
great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a
thing for the thousandth time. |
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COVEY |
A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of
young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of
game; as, a covey of partridges. |
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BISCUIT |
A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or
made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in
the same pan, forming a sheet or card. |
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SPILIKIN |
One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory,
bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score
in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins |
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STAKTOMETER |
A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small
orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding
the number of drops i... |
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WHEATWORM |
A small nematode worm (Anguillula tritici) which attacks
the grains of wheat in the ear. It is found in wheat affected with
smut, each of the d... |
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PINION |
A cogwheel with a small number of teeth, or leaves, adapted
to engage with a larger wheel, or rack (see Rack); esp., such a wheel
having its le... |
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SPECIMEN |
A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number
of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of
what is not e... |
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GRAPESHOT |
A cluster, usually nine in number, of small iron balls,
put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom,
with two rings, a... |
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DIFFERENTIAL |
A small difference in rates which competing railroad
lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to
make, in order to get... |
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LARGE |
...
capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent
units; big; great; capacious; extensive; -- opposed to small; as, a
lar... |