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2,025 words match “AFT”

INGRAFTMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of ingrafting.
KAFTAN v.
See Caftan.
KINGCRAFT n.
The craft of kings; the art of governing as a sovereign; royal policy. Prescott.
LAFT p.
of Leave. Chaucer.
LAFTE n.
of Leave. Chaucer.
LAY SHAFT; LAYSHAFT n.
A secondary shaft, as in a sliding change gear for an automobile; a cam shaft operated by a two-to-one gear in an internal- combustion engine. It is generally a shaft moving more or less independently of the other parts of a machine, as, in some marine engines, a shaft, driven by a small auxiliary engine, for independe…
LEECHCRAFT n.
The art of healing; skill of a physician. [Archaic] Chaucer.
MISGRAFT v.
To graft wrongly.
OUTCRAFTY v.
To exceed in cunning. [R.] Shak.
OVERDRAFT n.
The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.
PENCRAFT n. 2 definitions
sing or writing; authorship. I would not give a groat for that person's knowledge in pencraft. S
PRICKSHAFT n.
An arrow. [Obs.]
PRIESTCRAFT n.
gious motives or credulity of others. It is better that men should be governed by priestcraft than by violence. Macaulay.
QUEENCRAFT n.
Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen. Elizabeth showed much queencraft in procuring the votes of the nobility. Fuller.
RAFT n. 6 definitions
A large collection of people or things taken indiscriminately. [Slang, U. S.] "A whole raft of folks." W. D. Howells. Raft bridge.
RAFTE n.
imp. of Reave. Chaucer.
RAFTER n. 5 definitions
A raftsman.
RAFTING n.
The business of making or managing rafts.
RAFTSMAN n.
A man engaged in rafting.
RAFTY a.
Damp; musty. [Prov. Eng.]
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