Bangle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
  • n. An ornament that hangs from a bracelet or necklace.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To waste, fritter (away).
  • n. A rigid bracelet or anklet, especially one with no clasp.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To waste by little and little; to fritter away.
  • n. An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn mostly by women, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet. It differs from other bracelets in being rigid and not articulated, in contrast to bracelets made of links.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To beat about or down, as corn by the wind.
  • To waste by little and little; squander carelessly; fritter.
  • In falconry, to beat about in the air; flutter: said of a hawk which does not rise steadily and then swoop down upon its prey.
  • To flap or hang down loosely, as a hat-brim or an animal's ear.
  • n. An ornamental ring worn upon the arms and ankles in India and Africa. Hence A bracelet without a clasp; a ring-bracelet, generally with small ornaments suspended from it.
  • n. Nautical, a hoop of a spar.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration
  • n. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    adornment   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Angle    Wrangell    angle    dangle    disentangle    entangle    fangle    jangle    mangle    newfangle   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    comnet    18-millimeter    torc    lame    anklet    dangly    rhinestone    Adam    circlet    denarii