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Brand Spore :: Brand spore () One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand..

Handcuff :: Handcuff (n.) A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural..

Keckle :: Keckle (v. t.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice..

Studded :: Stud (n.) An iron brace across the shorter diameter of the link of a chain cable.

Bier :: Bier (n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

Degree :: Degree (n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree..

Torula :: Torula (n.) A chain of special bacteria. (b) A genus of budding fungi. Same as Saccharomyces. Also used adjectively.

Altaic :: Altaic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia..

Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..

Leptothrix :: Leptothrix (n.) Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals..

Lash :: Lash (n.) To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten; as, to lash something to a spar; to lash a pack on a horse's back..

Link :: Link (n.) A single ring or division of a chain.

Chain :: Chain (n.) Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels..

Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars..

Froth :: Froth (v. t.) To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain..

Necklace :: Necklace (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament..

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter..

Camail :: Camail (n.) A neck guard of chain mall, hanging from the bascinet or other headpiece..

Jew''s-harp :: Jew's-harp (n.) The shackle for joining a chain cable to an anchor.

Enchain :: Enchain (v. t.) To bind with a chain; to hold in chains.

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