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3,578 words match “LET”

CHAMLET n.
See Camlet. [Obs.]
CHAPELET n. 2 definitions
saddle, after they have been adjusted to the convenience of the rider. [Written also chaplet.]
CHAPLET n. 8 definitions
a string, used by Roman Catholic in praying; a third of a rosary, or fifty beads. Her chaplet of beads and her missal. Longfellow.
CHATELET n.
A little castle.
CIRCLET n. 3 definitions
ment for the person, having the form of a circle; that which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser.
CIRCULET n.
A circlet. [Obs.] Spenser.
CLOUDLET n.
A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.
COLET; COLLET n.
An inferior church servant. [Obs.] See Acolyte.
COLETIT; COALTIT n.
A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.
COLLET n. 4 definitions
A small metal ring; a small collar fastened on an arbor; as, the collet on the balance arbor of a watch; a small socket on a stem, for holding a drill.
COLLETERIAL a.
Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.
COLLETERIUM n.
An organ of female insects, containing a cement to unite the ejected ova.
COLLETIC a. 2 definitions
Agglutinant. -- n.
COMPLETE a. 4 definitions
with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate. "Complete perfections." Milton. Ye are complete in him. Col. ii. 10. That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel Revesit'st thus the glimpses of the moon. Shak.
COMPLETELY adv.
In a complete manner; fully.
COMPLETEMENT n.
Act of completing or perfecting; completion. [Obs.] Dryden.
COMPLETENESS n.
The state of being complete.
COMPLETION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott.
COMPLETIVE a.
Making complete. [R.] J. Harris.
COMPLETORY a. 2 definitions
Serving to fulfill. Completory of ancient presignifications. Barrow.
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