These are the meanings of the letters ILKAN when you unscramble them.
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Akin (a.)
Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.
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Akin (a.)
Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
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Anil (n.)
A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
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Kail (n.)
A kind of headless cabbage. Same as Kale, 1.
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Kail (n.)
Any cabbage, greens, or vegetables.
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Kail (n.)
A broth made with kail or other vegetables; hence, any broth; also, a dinner.
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Kain (n.)
Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
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Kiln (n.)
A large stove or oven; a furnace of brick or stone, or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, or drying anything; as, a kiln for baking or hardening earthen vessels; a kiln for drying grain, meal, lumber, etc.; a kiln for calcining limestone.
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Kiln (n.)
A furnace for burning bricks; a brickkiln.
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Lain (p. p.)
of Lie
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Lain (p. p.)
of Lie, v. i.
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Lank (superl.)
Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
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Lank (superl.)
Languid; drooping.
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Lank (v. i. & t.)
To become lank; to make lank.
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Link (n.)
A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
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Link (n.)
A single ring or division of a chain.
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Link (n.)
Hence: Anything, whether material or not, which binds together, or connects, separate things; a part of a connected series; a tie; a bond.
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Link (n.)
Anything doubled and closed like a link; as, a link of horsehair.
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Link (n.)
Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
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Link (n.)
Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (Steam Engine), the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
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Link (n.)
The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length. Cf. Chain, n., 4.
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Link (n.)
A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; -- applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
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Link (n.)
Sausages; -- because linked together.
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Link (v. t.)
To connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite; to couple.
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Link (v. i.)
To be connected.
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Nail (n.)
the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
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Nail (n.)
The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
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Nail (n.)
The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
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Nail (n.)
A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
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Nail (a.)
A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
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Nail (n.)
To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
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Nail (n.)
To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
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Nail (n.)
To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
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Nail (n.)
To spike, as a cannon.