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Proper noun

1. The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to the Gregorian April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan.

noun

1. (India) An aromatic red powder that is used during the Holi festival.

adv

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative form of a bit.

noun

1. A South American tropical fruit tree, Pouteria caimito.

noun

1. a shelter; a cavity in a hillside; a shelter on the side of hill with an overhung rock as its roof

noun

1. (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A frame to restrain a cow during milking or feeding.
2. (cricket) One of the two wooden crosspieces that rest on top of the stumps to form a wicket.
3. (furniture) Normally curved handle suspended between sockets as a drawer pull. This may also be on a kettle or pail.
4. (law, UK) Release from imprisonment on payment of such money.
5. (law, UK) The person providing such payment.
6. (obsolete) Custody; keeping.
7. A bucket or scoop used for removing water from a boat etc.
8. A hinged bar as a restraint for animals, or on a typewriter.
9. A hoop, ring or handle (especially of a kettle or bucket).
10. A hoop, ring, or other object used to connect a pendant to a necklace.
11. A person who bails water out of a boat.
12. A stall for a cow (or other animal) (usually tethered with a semi-circular hoop).
13. Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that person's appearance for trial.

verb

1. (Australia, New Zealand) To secure (a cow) by placing its head in a bail for milking.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, usually with up) To keep (a traveller) detained in order to rob them; to corner (a wild animal); loosely, to detain, hold up.
3. (informal, transitive with on) To fail to meet a commitment (to a person).
4. (law) To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment.
5. (law) To release a person under such guarantee.
6. (nautical, transitive) To remove water from (a boat) by scooping it out.
7. (nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
8. (rare) To confine.
9. (slang) To exit quickly.
10. To secure the head of a cow during milking.
11. To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail.
12. To set free; to deliver; to release.

adj

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Limber; pliant; flexible.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Direct; near; short; gain.
3. (now chiefly dialectal) Ready; willing.

adv

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Nearby; at hand.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) Readily; willingly.

noun

1. (obsolete) A bath.

noun

1. plural of bai

adj

1. (MLE) Obvious; blatant.
2. (MLE) Well-known; famous; renowned.

noun

1. (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
2. (Internet slang) A post intended to get a rise out of others.
3. (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
4. (Tyneside) A packed lunch.
5. A light or hasty luncheon.
6. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
7. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
8. Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
9. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.

verb

1. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
2. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
4. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
5. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
6. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
7. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
8. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.

noun

1. plural of ban (currency)

noun

1. (colloquial, barbershop music) A baritone (singer)
2. (colloquial, music) A baritone saxophone

adj

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Wealthy; well-to-do.
2. (Now chiefly dialectal) Well provided; comfortable; cosy.

adv

1. (Now chiefly dialectal) Comfortably.

verb

1. (transitive, Scotland) To dry.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To render or make comfortable.

noun

1. (India) friend, dude, man
2. brother

Proper noun

1. A small island north of New Guinea.
2. A language spoken on this island and others near it.

adj

1. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
2. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.

adv

1. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

noun

1. (South Korean idol fandom) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
2. (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
3. (countable, textiles) The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
4. (countable, uncountable) Inclination towards something.
5. (electronics) A voltage or current applied to an electronic device, such as a transistor electrode, to move its operating point to a desired part of its transfer function.
6. (sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
7. (statistics) The difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value, which reduces the representativeness of the estimator by systematically distorting it.

verb

1. (electronics) To give a bias to.
2. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.

noun

1. (India) grandmother

noun

1. another name for overalls
2. plural of bib

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bib

noun

1. A cobalt blue pigment.
2. A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
2. (intransitive, archaic or dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
3. (transitive, archaic) To face with resistance; to encounter; to withstand.
4. (transitive, archaic) To wait for; to await.
5. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.

adj

1. Clipping of bidirectional.

noun

1. Alternative form of beedi.

noun

1. plural of bid

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bid

noun

1. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
2. A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
3. A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.

intj

1. The sound of a person being punched or hit.

noun

1. (informal) A sudden, sharp blow or punch.
2. (informal, sports) A wipeout.

verb

1. (New Zealand, slang, transitive) To discard; to throw out; to throw away.
2. (informal, sports) To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall.
3. (informal, transitive) To punch or hit.

noun

1. (historical) A Roman racing chariot drawn by two horses abreast.

noun

1. A kind of barley.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, Northumbria) To build.

noun

1. (Hinduism, Buddhism) The origin or cause of things.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England) A hive of bees, or a nest of wasps, hornets, or ants.
2. (chiefly Scotland, by extension, collective) A crowd of people.
3. (slang, derogatory) Ellipsis of village bike.
4. Clipping of bicycle.
5. Clipping of motorbike.

verb

1. (intransitive) To ride a bike.
2. (intransitive) To travel by bike.
3. (transitive) To transport by bicycle.

noun

1. A virulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite.
2. The plant itself.

noun

1. (obsolete) A boil (kind of swelling).
2. A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
3. Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
4. Two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

verb

1. Pronunciation spelling of boil.

noun

1. (medicine, informal) Clipping of bilirubin.

noun

1. (cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
2. (obsolete) A cheat or swindler.
3. (obsolete) A deception, a hoax.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK) To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
2. (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
3. (transitive) To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
4. (transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.

noun

1. (US, Canada) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
2. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
3. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant, or a fault committed by some person against a law.
4. (slang, Canada, US) One hundred dollars.
5. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
6. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
7. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.)
8. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
9. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods
10. A pickaxe, or mattock.
11. A set of items presented together.
12. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note.
13. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.)
14. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
15. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff.
16. Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
17. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
18. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal.
19. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

verb

1. (obsolete) to peck
2. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
3. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
4. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
5. to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness

noun

1. Half a coconut shell, used in Fiji as a cup for drinking alcohol.

noun

1. (Judaism) The raised platform in the front of a synagogue where the Torah is read on a podium.

noun

1. (chess) A strong grip or stranglehold on a position, which is difficult for the opponent to break.
2. (music) A ligature or tie for grouping notes.
3. A troublesome situation; a problem; a predicament or quandary.
4. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, especially a hop vine; a bine.
5. That which binds or ties.
6. The indurated clay of coal mines.

verb

1. (UK, dialect) To complain; to whine about something.
2. (figuratively) To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other social tie.
3. (intransitive) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction.
4. (intransitive) To cohere or stick together in a mass.
5. (intransitive) To exert a binding or restraining influence.
6. (intransitive) To tie; to confine by any ligature.
7. (intransitive, LGBT) To wear a binder so as to flatten one's chest to give the appearance of a flat chest, usually done by trans men.
8. (law) To place under legal obligation to serve.
9. (law) To put (a person) under definite legal obligations, especially, under the obligation of a bond or covenant.
10. (transitive) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind.
11. (transitive) To couple.
12. (transitive) To cover, as with a bandage.
13. (transitive) To protect or strengthen by applying a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment.
14. (transitive) To put together in a cover, as of books.
15. (transitive) To tie or fasten tightly together, with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.
16. (transitive, archaic) To make fast (a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something.
17. (transitive, archaic) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action, as by producing constipation.
18. (transitive, chemistry) To make two or more elements stick together.
19. (transitive, programming) To associate an identifier with a value; to associate a variable name, method name, etc. with the content of a storage location.
20. (transitive, programming) To process one or more object modules into an executable program.

noun

1. (UK, slang) cigarette
2. (botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).

intj

1. (onomatopoeia) The high-pitched sound made by a bell being struck
2. (onomatopoeia) The sound made by a bounce, or by striking a metallic surface

noun

1. (Britain, chiefly Scotland) A heap or pile, especially of metallic ore
2. (chiefly Scotland) A slag heap, i.e. a man-made mound or heap formed with the waste material (slag) as a by-product of coal mining or the shale oil industry
3. (chiefly Scotland) The waste by-product from a foundry or furnace, formed into such a mound
4. (prison slang, with "the") Solitary confinement
5. A bounce.
6. The sound made by a bell, an onomatopœia.
7. The sound made by a bounce.

verb

1. (dated slang or dialectal) To go; walk; come; run
2. To bounce.

noun

1. (UK, Northern England, Scotland, dialect) A bench.

noun

1. (physics) The superpartner of the gauge boson corresponding to weak hypercharge.

noun

1. (birding, slang) Binoculars.
2. (slang) Eyeglasses or spectacles.
3. plural of bin

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bin

noun

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A woman, a girl.

noun

1. (informal) A biography.

noun

1. (science fiction) A cyborg or robot.
2. The smallest microscopic unit of orgone.

noun

1. (obsolete) A vitamin essential for the growth of yeast, since found to be several B vitamins.
2. In the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, a particular mode of life; "qualified life", as opposed to the bare life or zoe.
3. plural of bio

noun

1. (physics, dated) Synonym of abampere
2. (science fiction) A robot composed of living components

adj

1. (Canada, colloquial, of a school or university course) Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.

noun

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.
2. (UK, US, Australia, Ireland, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
3. (UK, with definite article, especially in expressions such as 'give someone the bird') Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
4. (cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
5. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
6. (slang) A man, fellow.
7. (slang) A prison sentence.
8. (slang) A satellite.
9. (slang) An airplane.
10. (slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
11. (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
12. (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
13. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
14. A yardbird.

verb

1. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
2. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
4. (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
5. (transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk
2. (Northern England) A birch tree.
3. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

noun

1. (Internet slang, LGBT) A girl of boyish appearance.
2. (music, bagpipes) A type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several times, producing a low rippling sound.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause (a floating log) to rotate by treading on it.
2. (transitive) To throw down a coin as one's share in a joint contribution.
3. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To spin.
4. Alternative form of birle (“to drink, carouse”)

noun

1. (by extension, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Any ballpoint pen.
2. (uncountable, by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
3. A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.

noun

1. (Scotland) A strong trilling.
2. (Scotland) A whirring noise
3. (Scotland) The force of movement; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force
4. (Scotland) strength, vigor, energy
5. The currency of Ethiopia, divided into 100 santims.

verb

1. (Scotland) To lurch or set to spinning.
2. (Scotland) To make a whirring noise; make a noise like that of revolving wheels, or of millstones at work.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, archaic) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

noun

1. A cold, dry, northerly wind in France, Switzerland, etc.
2. Alternative form of bice (blue pigment)

noun

1. (Britain, slang) Clipping of bishop.
2. (Britain, slang, dated) A mistake.
3. (chess) Abbreviation of bishop.
4. (slang) A minced oath, a euphemism by phonetic modification of "bitch" (as a term of abuse).

noun

1. (sports) Alternative form of bisque (“extra turn”)
2. Alternative form of bisque (“kind of soup”)

verb

1. (UK dialectal, Black Country, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Originally used to form the second person singular of be, but can denote other present tense forms, such as: are, am, is
2. How bist?
3. I bist goin' 'ome.
4. Where bist goin'.

noun

1. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
2. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
3. (figuratively) aggression
4. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
5. (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
6. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
7. (slang) Something unpleasant.
8. (television) Short for sound bite.
9. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
10. A small meal or snack.
11. The act of biting.
12. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
13. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
14. The wound left behind after having been bitten.

verb

1. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
2. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
3. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
4. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
5. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
6. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
7. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
8. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
9. (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
10. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
11. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
12. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
13. (obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
14. (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
15. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
16. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
17. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
18. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

noun

1. (MLE) neighbourhood; hood; manor; ends.
2. plural of bit

noun

1. (nautical) A bollard.
2. (nautical) The bitts.

verb

1. (nautical, transitive) To put round the bitts.

noun

1. A plucked lute, originating in the classical and traditional music of Japan, characterized by a pear-shaped body and four or five high frets, giving the instrument a distinctively twangy tone.

noun

1. (slang, UK) A chunk of cannabis resin.

noun

1. (obsolete) Cessation; end.
2. A blintz.

verb

1. (obsolete, especially Scotland, Northumbria, Yorkshire) To cease (from); to stop; to desist, to let up.

noun

1. (Internet, historical) An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework.
2. (by extension) A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal.
3. (electronics) A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
4. A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion.
2. (transitive) Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”)

noun

1. (computing) A logical operation in which a block of data is rapidly moved or copied in memory, most commonly used to animate two-dimensional graphics.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To transfer by a blit operation.

noun

1. (Trinidad and Tobago) Asparagus beans.

noun

1. A computer simulation of an animal that flies in flocks or swarms.
2. Any member of the family Boidae of non-venomous snakes.
3. Nonstandard spelling of bird representing the old-fashioned New York City pronunciation

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic) A bubbling.
2. (rare, nonstandard) The collective noun for a group of hawks.
3. A dish of boiled food, especially based on seafood.
4. A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
5. The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses) To feel uncomfortably hot.
2. (intransitive, informal, used only in progressive tenses, of weather) To be uncomfortably hot.
3. (intransitive, of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
4. (obsolete) To steep or soak in warm water.
5. (transitive) To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
6. (transitive, UK, informal) To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To cook in boiling water.
8. (transitive, of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
9. To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.
10. To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.

noun

1. plural of boi

noun

1. (nonstandard) plural of bonus

noun

1. An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
3. (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
4. Brigadier.

adj

1. (obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.

noun

1. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
2. A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
3. An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
4. The topmost rim or lip of a container.

verb

1. (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
2. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

noun

1. A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.
2. One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

noun

1. Vigour or vivacity.

noun

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.

noun

1. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
2. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
3. brit milah

verb

1. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.
3. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
4. (transitive) To bruise; indent.

Noun

1. A measure (in degrees) of the amount of dissolved solids in a liquid via its specific gravity; used especially to measure dissolved sugar in fruit juice and wine.

noun

1. (Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
2. (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
3. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
4. (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
5. (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
6. (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
7. (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
8. (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
9. (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
10. (obsolete) A job, a position; (Britain) an appointment.
11. (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
12. (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
13. (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
14. (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
15. (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
16. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
17. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
18. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
19. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
20. A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
21. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
22. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
23. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
24. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

verb

1. (India) To complain, to grumble
2. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
3. (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
4. (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
5. (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
6. (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

intj

1. (informal) Used to claim this right

noun

1. (dated) A sweet preparation or treacle of grape juice, much used in the East.
2. (informal) The right to use or enjoy something exclusively or before anyone else.
3. (obsolete) A child's game, played with dib bones or stones, throwing them up from one's palm and catching them on the back of the hand.
4. plural of dib

verb

1. (informal) To claim a temporary right to (something); to reserve.

noun

1. A canine of northern Africa, the African golden wolf (Canis lupaster, formerly considered an African variant of the golden jackal, Canis aureus).

noun

1. (obsolete) A drop.

verb

1. (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
2. (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
4. (transitive) To entice step by step.
5. (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
6. (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
7. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
8. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal) To scold.
9. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
10. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.

noun

1. plural of fib

Proper noun

1. derived from a diminutive of the name Gilbert.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of gybe
2. Alternative spelling of jibe (“facetious or insulting remark”)

verb

1. Alternative spelling of jibe

noun

1. (slang, derogatory) Government welfare, assistance or handouts.
2. (video games) The internal organs of certain computer game characters after being splattered to death.
3. plural of gib

verb

1. (dialectal, rare) Pronunciation spelling of give.
2. (dialectal, rare) Pronunciation spelling of gives.
3. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gib

adj

1. (US) Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
2. (dated) Smooth or slippery.
3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
4. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

noun

1. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly used in Ireland.

verb

1. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
2. (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.

noun

1. (India, cooking) cauliflower

noun

1. The harnessed antelope (Tragelaphus scriptus), a West African antelope marked with white stripes and spots on a reddish fawn ground;.

noun

1. (prosody) A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

noun

1. (heraldry) An imaginary creature with serrated horns, somewhat similar to the heraldic antelope.
2. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.

adv

1. Alternative form of ibid. ("in the same place")

noun

1. Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.