Term: napier's bones: a set of graduated rods formerly used to do multiplication and division by a method invented by John Napier
Candidate hypernym: artifact: a man-made object taken as a whole → 1
Candidate hypernym: dysdercus: a genus of slender long-legged bugs that feed on the developing seeds of cotton and stain it → 0
Candidate hypernym: airiness: the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air → 0
Candidate hypernym: atrophy: a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse → 0
Candidate hypernym: geastrum: type genus of Geastraceae; fungi whose outer peridium when dry splits into starlike segments → 0
Candidate hypernym: reckoner: a handbook of tables used to facilitate computation → 0
Candidate hypernym: protection: the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition → 0
Candidate hypernym: survivor guilt: a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died → 0
Candidate hypernym: pensiveness: persistent morbid meditation on a problem → 0
Candidate hypernym: engineer: a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems → 0
Candidate hypernym: percussion: the act of exploding a percussion cap → 0