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SILKIER |
Softer |
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CALMER |
Softer |
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STILLER |
Softer |
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TENDERER |
Softer |
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PALER |
Softer (shade) |
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LOWER |
Softer (voice) |
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DAMPEN |
Make softer |
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TENDERISE |
Make softer |
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COLBY |
Softer cheese akin to cheddar in taste |
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SMORSATO |
Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away;
morendo. |
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ALBURNUM |
The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark
and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood. |
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PLUSH |
A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and
softer than the nap of velvet. |
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TENDER |
Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of
the softer passions; pathetic; as, tender expressions; tender
expostulations; a tender strain. |
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MILL |
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for
imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. |
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RUMINATED |
Having a hard albumen penetrated by irregular channels
filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North
American papaw. |
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FLAGEOLET |
...d a
mouthpiece inserted at one end. It produces a shrill sound, softer than
of the piccolo flute, and is said to have superseded the old recorde... |
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BRASS |
A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of
brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is
generally called ... |
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HEARTWOOD |
...y known as duramen, and
distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum. ... |
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PIETRA DURA |
... for
inlay and the like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in
building; thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in
... |
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EARTH |
The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of
the globe, in distinction from the firm rock; soil of all kinds,
including gravel,... |