HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

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

verb

1. (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.
2. (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
3. (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.

noun

1. Obsolete form of alb.

noun

1. (India) (Originally) a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official.
2. (India) A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man

noun

1. (computing, informal) bps (bits per second), regardless of how many bits are represented by each symbol.
2. (computing, telecommunications) A unit of data transmission symbol rate; the number of signalling events per second.

noun

1. (dated) A male lover; a boyfriend.
2. (dated) A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
3. A male escort.
4. A suitor of a lady.

adj

1. (attributively) Swollen, puffed, protruding.

noun

1. The act of blubbing.

verb

1. (obsolete) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
2. To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval).

adj

1. (Australian politics) Supportive of or related to the Liberal Party.
2. (UK politics) Supportive of or related to the Conservative Party.
3. (US politics) Supportive of, run by (a member of), pertaining to, or dominated by the Democratic Party.
4. (archaic) Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
5. (archaic, of women) literary; bluestockinged.
6. (astronomy) Of the higher-frequency region of the part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.
7. (health care) Having a bluish or purplish shade of the skin due to a lack of oxygen to the normally deep red blood cells.
8. (informal) Depressed, melancholic, sad.
9. (informal) Risqué; obscene; profane; pornographic.
10. (of a dog or cat) Having a coat of fur of a slaty gray shade.
11. (of steak) Extra rare; left very raw and cold.
12. (particle physics) Having a color charge of blue.
13. (slang, dated) Drunk.
14. Having blue as its color.
15. Pale, without redness or glare; said of a flame.

noun

1. (Australia, colloquial) An argument or brawl.
2. (Britain) A type of firecracker.
3. (UK) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party.
4. (baseball, slang) An umpire, in reference to the typical dark blue color of the umpire's uniform. Sometimes perceived by umpires as derogatory when used by players or coaches while disputing a call.
5. (countable and uncountable) The colour of the clear sky or the deep sea, between green and purple in the visible spectrum, and one of the primary additive colours for transmitted light; the colour obtained by subtracting red and green from white light using magenta and cyan filters; or any colour resembling this.
6. (entomology) Any of the butterflies of the subfamily Polyommatinae in the family Lycaenidae, most of which have blue on their wings.
7. (in the plural) A blue uniform. See blues.
8. (now historical) A bluestocking.
9. (slang) A member of law enforcement.
10. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
11. (uncountable) Blue clothing.
12. A blue dye or pigment.
13. A bluefish.
14. A dog or cat with a slaty gray coat.
15. A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
16. A member of a sports team that wears blue colours; (in the plural) a nickname for the team as a whole. See also blues.
17. A person who has received such sporting colours.
18. Any of several processes to protect metal against rust.
19. Anything coloured blue, especially to distinguish it from similar objects differing only in color.
20. Sporting colours awarded by a university or other institution for sporting achievement, such as representing one's university, especially and originally at Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. See also full blue, half blue.
21. The far distance; a remote or distant place.
22. The ocean; deep waters.
23. The sky, literally or figuratively.

verb

1. (ergative) To make or become blue; to turn blue.
2. (intransitive, Australia, slang) To fight, brawl, or argue.
3. (transitive, laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid).
4. (transitive, metallurgy) To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
5. (transitive, slang, dated) To spend (money) extravagantly; to blow.

intj

1. (colloquial, rare) Expressing disgust or discontent; blah.
2. When repeated or combined with blah, used to denote tedious talking; blah.

Proper noun

1. A town in Texas.

adj

1. (Malaysia, Singapore, informal) In a state of doubt or confusion.

noun

1. (obsolete) A moral stain or blot.
2. A smear, smudge or blot
3. Something that appears hazy or indistinct

verb

1. (graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus away from.
2. (intransitive) To become indistinct.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To sully; to stain; to blemish, as reputation.
4. To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken.
5. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim.
6. To smear, stain or smudge.

noun

1. (obsolete) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc.

noun

1. (UK dialectal or obsolete) The belly.
2. (UK dialectal) The carcass of a slaughtered animal.
3. (UK dialectal) The trunk or torso of the body, hence the body itself.

noun

1. A curved handle.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.

noun

1. (boxing) A boxing match.
2. (dated) The going and returning of a plough, or other implement used to mark the ground and create a headland, across a field.
3. (fencing) An assault (a fencing encounter) at which the score is kept.
4. (music) A bulge or widening in a musical instrument, such as either of the two characteristic bulges of a guitar.
5. (roller derby) A roller derby match.
6. A fighting competition.
7. A period of something, especially one painful or unpleasant.

prep

1. (colloquial) Aphetic form of about

verb

1. To contest a bout.

intj

1. Alternative form of brrm

adj

1. (of champagne) very dry, and not sweet

noun

1. A variety of madeira (wine) that is less sweet than malmsey

noun

1. (Scotland) A lantern.
2. (Scotland) The moon.

noun

1. A woman's blouse worn in West African countries.

noun

1. (pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.

noun

1. plural of bub

noun

1. (African-American Vernacular, dated, dance) Synonym of buck dance.
2. (Britain, obsolete) A fop or dandy.
3. (Scotland) The beech tree.
4. (South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).
5. (UK, dialect) The body of a post mill, particularly in East Anglia. See Wikipedia:Windmill machinery.
6. (US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.
7. (US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).
8. (US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.
9. (US, slang) One hundred.
10. (by extension in the US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.
11. (by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money.
12. (dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.
13. (dated, slang) A kind of large marble in children's games.
14. (finance) One million dollars.
15. (informal, rare) A euro.
16. A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
17. A leather-covered frame used for gymnastic vaulting.
18. A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret and shad.
19. A wood or metal frame used by automotive customizers and restorers to assist in the shaping of sheet metal bodywork.
20. A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.
21. Clipping of buckshot.
22. Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
23. Synonym of mule (“type of cocktail with ginger ale etc.”)
24. The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

verb

1. (chiefly Ireland, humorous or euphemistic) To fuck.
2. (electronics) To output a voltage that is lower than the input voltage.
3. (forestry) To saw a felled tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.
4. (intransitive) To bend; buckle.
5. (intransitive) To copulate, as bucks and does.
6. (intransitive, by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.
7. (intransitive, by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.
8. (intransitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.
9. (mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
10. (riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion.
11. (transitive, by extension) To overcome or shed (e.g., an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.
12. (transitive, military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
13. (transitive, of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.
14. To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.
15. To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

noun

1. plural of bud

verb

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

adj

1. (bodybuilding) Unusually muscular.
2. (color) Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.
3. (slang) Physically attractive.

noun

1. (colloquial) The bare skin.
2. (color) A brownish yellow colour.
3. (informal) A buffalo, or the meat of a buffalo.
4. (informal) A person who is very interested in a particular subject.
5. (obsolete) A buffet; a blow.
6. (rail transport) Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.
7. (uncommon) Alternative form of buffe (“face armor”)
8. (video games, role-playing games) An effect that makes a character or item stronger.
9. A military coat made of buff leather.
10. A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.
11. Any substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.
12. The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.
13. Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.

verb

1. (dialectal or obsolete) To stammer, stutter
2. (medical slang) To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.
3. (video games, role-playing games) To make a character or an item stronger.
4. To polish and make shiny by rubbing.
5. To strike.

noun

1. (Hawaii, slang) toad, frog

adj

1. (slang) Crazy; unstable.

noun

1. plural of bug

verb

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

noun

1. (woodworking) A particularly decorative piece of brass or other material, used as inlay in furniture or other works.
2. Furniture having ornamentation of this kind.

noun

1. (music) The short introduction to a gamelan piece, generally played by a single instrument in a free rhythm, with the kendhang coming in on the last few notes to set the tempo.
2. A kangaroo-skin cloak traditionally worn by the Noongar people of southwestern Australia.

noun

1. (dated, neuroanatomy) The medulla oblongata.
2. (nautical) A bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of certain vessels to reduce turbulence.
3. (obsolete) An onion.
4. A light bulb (not necessarily bulbous in shape).
5. Any solid object rounded at one end and tapering on the other, possibly attached to a larger object at the tapered end.
6. The bulb-shaped root portion of a plant such as a tulip, from which the rest of the plant may be regrown.

verb

1. (intransitive) To take the shape of a bulb; to swell.

adj

1. being large in size, mass or volume (of goods, etc.)
2. total

noun

1. (bodybuilding) A period where one tries to gain muscle.
2. (bodybuilding) Excess body mass, especially muscle.
3. (brane cosmology) A hypothetical higher-dimensional space within which our own four-dimensional universe may exist.
4. (countable) a cargo or any items moved or communicated in the manner of cargo.
5. (obsolete) The body.
6. (uncountable, transport) Unpackaged goods when transported in large volumes, e.g. coal, ore or grain.
7. Any huge body or structure.
8. Dietary fibre.
9. Size, specifically, volume.
10. The major part of something.

verb

1. (intransitive) To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent.
2. (intransitive) To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc.
3. (intransitive) To grow in size; to swell or expand.
4. (transitive) To put or hold in bulk.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To add bulk to, to bulk out.

adj

1. (finance) Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear).
2. (of large mammals) Adult male.
3. Large and strong, like a bull.
4. Stupid.

noun

1. (LGBT, slang) An elderly lesbian.
2. (Philadelphia, slang) A man or boy (derived from the Philadelphia English pronunciation of “boy”, which is practically a homophone of “bull”)
3. (UK) Clipping of bullseye.
4. (UK, historical, obsolete slang) A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
5. (US) Specifically, a policeman employed in a railroad yard.
6. (euphemistic, informal) Nonsense.
7. (finance) An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.
8. (military, firearms) The central portion of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
9. (obsolete) A bubble.
10. (obsolete) A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.
11. (slang) A policeman.
12. (slang, uncountable) Beef.
13. (uncountable, informal, euphemistic, slang) Clipping of bullshit.
14. A large, strong man.
15. A lie.
16. A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.
17. A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.
18. A papal bull, an official document or edict from the Pope.
19. A seal affixed to a document, especially a document from the Pope.
20. An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.
21. An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.
22. Any adult male bovine.
23. Specifically, one that is uncastrated.

verb

1. (UK, military) To polish boots to a high shine.
2. (agriculture, intransitive, of a cow or heifer) To be in heat; to be ready for mating with a bull.
3. (agriculture, transitive, of a bull) To mate with (a cow or heifer).
4. (dated, 17th century) to publish in a Papal bull
5. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise prices in.
6. (finance, transitive) To endeavour to raise the market price of.
7. (intransitive) To lie, to tell untruths.
8. (intransitive, often with into or through) To force oneself (in a particular direction).
9. To mock; to cheat.

noun

1. (South Africa) A ridge or small hill.

noun

1. (Britain, obsolete) Toilet paper.
2. (derogatory) Useless papers; now especially official documents, standardized forms, sales and marketing print material, etc.

intj

1. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

noun

1. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
2. (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
3. (industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
4. (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
5. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
6. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
7. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
8. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
9. (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
10. A light blow or jolting collision.
11. A protuberance on a level surface.
12. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
13. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
14. In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
15. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
16. The sound of such a collision.
17. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.

verb

1. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
2. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
3. (industrial relations, transitive) To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
5. (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
6. (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
7. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
8. (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
9. (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
10. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
11. To move up or down by a step; displace.

noun

1. plural of bum

verb

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

noun

1. (India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
2. (India) Alternative form of bandh
3. A group of foreign sympathesizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
4. A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
5. A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
6. An embankment.

verb

1. To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.

adj

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Broken, not in working order.

noun

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The landlord of a public house.
2. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A purse.
3. (obsolete, slang) A sharper or pickpocket.
4. (slang) A bribe.
5. A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber, used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc.
6. The cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal.
7. The orifice in the bilge of a cask through which it is filled; bunghole.

verb

1. (UK, Australia, transitive, informal) To put or throw something without care; to chuck.
2. (transitive) To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell.
3. (transitive) To pass a bribe.
4. (transitive) To plug, as with a bung.

adj

1. (slang) Defective, broken, not functioning properly.

noun

1. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
2. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
3. (military) A cot.
4. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
5. (slang) A specimen of a recreational drug with insufficient active ingredient.
6. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
7. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.

verb

1. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off').
2. (dated) To expel from a school.
3. (slang) To depart; scram.
4. To occupy a bunk.
5. To provide a bunk.

noun

1. Archaic form of bun (“sweetened bread roll”).

noun

1. (euphemistic) The buttocks.
2. plural of bun

noun

1. (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
2. (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
3. (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
4. (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
5. (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
6. A push or shove; a butt.

verb

1. (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
2. (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
3. (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
4. (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
5. (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
6. To push with the horns; to butt.
7. To spring or rear up.

noun

1. (nautical) A float moored in water to mark a location, warn of danger, indicate a navigational channel or for other purposes
2. A life-buoy; a life preserver.

verb

1. (transitive) To keep afloat or aloft; used with up.
2. (transitive) To mark with a buoy.
3. (transitive) To support or maintain at a high level.
4. To maintain or enhance enthusiasm or confidence; to lift the spirits of.

noun

1. (poetic) maiden, young woman

noun

1. A traditional Fijian cottage with a steep thatched roof and wide windows.

noun

1. (Canada, US) A city or town.
2. (historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.
3. (slang) burger

noun

1. A fortified dwelling place belonging to a king or noble; a prehistoric fort.

verb

1. (Southern US, slang, intransitive) To vomit.

noun

1. A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
2. A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
3. Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.

verb

1. To remove the knots in cloth.

noun

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A stream.
2. (aerospace) The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
3. (computing) The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
4. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
5. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
6. (uncountable) A disease in vegetables; brand.
7. (uncountable, UK, chiefly prison slang) Tobacco.
8. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
9. A sensation resembling such an injury.
10. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
11. The act of burning something with fire.
12. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.

verb

1. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
2. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
3. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
4. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
5. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
6. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
7. (intransitive, physics, of an element) To be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion reaction, especially in a star.
8. (intransitive, slang, card games, gambling) To discard.
9. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare dodge).
10. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
11. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
12. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or chemicals that produce similar damage.
13. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
14. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
15. (transitive) To waste (time); to waste money or other resources.
16. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
17. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
18. (transitive, computing, by extension) To render subtitles into a video's content while transcoding it, making the subtitles part of the image.
19. (transitive, espionage) To blackmail.
20. (transitive, espionage) To compromise (an agent's cover story).
21. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
22. (transitive, slang) To betray.
23. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
24. (transitive, slang) To shoot someone with a firearm.
25. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
26. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.

noun

1. (US) a chest of drawers for clothes
2. a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
3. an office

noun

1. (chiefly US, Philippines) A belch.

verb

1. (intransitive) To emit a burp.
2. (transitive) To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp.
3. (transitive) To open (a container of fermenting substance) to allow the release of accumulated gas.
4. (transitive) To utter by burping

noun

1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of burl
2. (engineering) A revolving disk or cone with abrasive surfaces used to grind hard products in a grinder or mill.
3. (historical) A metal ring at the top of the hand-rest on a spear.
4. 1724, John Guillim, A Display of Heraldry:
5. 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia:
6. 2003, Thomas Howard Crofts, Fifteenth-century Malory, page 290:
7. 2012, Howard Pyle, The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur:
8. 2015, James B. Tschen-Emmons, Artifacts from Medieval Europe, page 280:
9. A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the grip, to prevent the hand from slipping.
10. A bur; a seed pod with sharp features that stick in fur or clothing.
11. A burr knot or burl.
12. A rough humming sound.
13. A sharp, pointy object, such as a sliver or splinter.
14. A small piece of material left on an edge after a cutting operation.
15. A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before it is swaged down.
16. A uvular "r" sound, or (by extension) an accent characterized by this sound.
17. And when his body was against the burr of the spear, he took his sword in both his hands and he swung the sword above his head, and he smote King Arthur with the edge of the sword upon the helmet.
18. Many saddles, especially those for use on warhorses, had high burr plates and cantles. this was especially important when knights began using stirrups and the couched lance.
19. The ear lobe.
20. The front of it was defended by an iron-plate, called a vam-plat, that is, an avant-plate, and behind it was a broad iron ring, called a burr.
21. The knot at the bottom of an antler.
22. We are made to witness a cathartic shuffling-off of mortalities and of hatreds: Mordred's pulling himself up to the 'burr' of Arthur's spear is Malory's own detail and one of the most memorable in the book.
23. burr or ring of iron behind the hand

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a rough humming sound.
2. (transitive) To pronounce with a uvular "r".

noun

1. plural of bur

noun

1. (obsolete) A burrow.
2. A borough; a manor

verb

1. (transitive) To place in the ground.
2. (transitive) To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb.
3. (transitive, figurative, humorous) To outlive.
4. (transitive, figurative, slang) To kill or murder.
5. (transitive, figuratively) To put an end to; to abandon.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To score a goal.
7. (transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
8. (transitive, often figurative) To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance.
9. To render imperceptible by other, more prominent stimuli; drown out.

adj

1. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.

adv

1. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.

noun

1. (Australia) The countryside area of Australia that is less arid and less remote than the outback; loosely, areas of natural flora even within conurbations.
2. (Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
3. (Canada) The wild forested areas of Canada; upcountry.
4. (New Zealand) An area of New Zealand covered in forest, especially native forest.
5. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
6. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior"
7. (historical) A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a tavern sign; hence, a tavern sign, and symbolically, the tavern itself.
8. (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.
9. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
10. (often with "the") Tracts of land covered in natural vegetation that are largely undeveloped and uncultivated.
11. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's.
12. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which a camera is attached to a tripod stand.
13. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
14. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
15. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal.

verb

1. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
2. (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining; to line.
3. To become bushy (often used with up).
4. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
5. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.

noun

1. (by extension) A corset.
2. (obsolete) A kind of linen.
3. A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.

verb

1. (intransitive) To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
3. (nautical) To tack, cruise about.
4. (obsolete) To go; to direct one's course.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress.

noun

1. (archaic) A kiss.
2. A herring buss, a type of shallow-keeled Dutch fishing boat used especially for herring fishing.
3. Archaic form of bus (“passenger vehicle”).

verb

1. (intransitive) To kiss.
2. (transitive, now often poetic or dialectal) To kiss (either literally or figuratively).

adj

1. (slang) Without any money, broke, bankrupt.

noun

1. (chess, slang) A refutation of an opening, or of a previously published analysis.
2. (economics) The downward portion of a boom and bust cycle; a recession.
3. (slang) A disappointment.
4. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
5. (slang) A police raid or takedown of a criminal enterprise.
6. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
7. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
8. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
9. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.

verb

1. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
2. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
3. (chess, slang) To refute an established opening.
4. (finance, transitive) To undo a trade, generally an error trade, that has already been executed.
5. (intransitive, slang) To ejaculate; to eject semen.
6. (journalism, intransitive) For a headline to exceed the amount of space reserved for it.
7. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
8. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
9. (transitive, colloquial, chiefly US) To break.
10. (transitive, slang) To arrest (someone) for a crime.
11. (transitive, slang) To break in (a woman or girl), To deflower
12. (transitive, slang) To break in (an animal).
13. (transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

adj

1. Crowded with business or activities; having a great deal going on.
2. Engaged in activity or by someone else.
3. Having a lot going on; complicated or intricate.
4. Officious; meddling.

noun

1. (slang, UK, Liverpudlian, derogatory) A police officer.

verb

1. (transitive) To rush somebody.
2. (transitive, usually reflexive) To make somebody busy or active; to occupy.

noun

1. (informal) Phenylbutazone.

noun

1. plural of but

verb

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

noun

1. (Canada, US, Philippines, slang) The buttocks (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
2. (English units) An English measure of capacity for liquids, containing 126 wine gallons which is one-half tun; equivalent to the pipe.
3. (Northern England) Any of various flatfish such as sole, plaice or turbot
4. (carpentry) A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
5. (countable) A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
6. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A heavy two-wheeled cart.
7. (dated, West Country and Ireland) A three-wheeled cart resembling a wheelbarrow.
8. (lacrosse) The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
9. (leather trades) The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
10. (mechanical) A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
11. (obsolete, West Country) Hassock.
12. (shipbuilding) The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
13. (slang) A used cigarette.
14. (slang) The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
15. (slang, metonymically) Body; self.
16. (usually as "butt of (a) joke") A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
17. A mark to be shot at; a target.
18. A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
19. A push, thrust, or sudden blow, given by the head; a head butt.
20. A thrust in fencing.
21. A wooden cask for storing wine, usually containing 126 gallons.
22. The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
23. The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
24. The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
25. The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.
26. The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
27. The shoulder of an animal, especially the portion above the picnic, as a cut of meat.

verb

1. (intransitive) To strike bluntly with the head.
2. (transitive) To strike bluntly, particularly with the head.
3. To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut.

noun

1. plural of buy

verb

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

noun

1. (informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.
2. (informal) A telephone call or e-mail.
3. (informal) Major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes.
4. (uncountable) Synonym of fizz-buzz (“counting game”)
5. A continuous humming noise, as of bees; a confused murmur, as of general conversation in low tones.
6. A whisper.
7. The audible friction of voiced consonants.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To drink to the bottom.
2. (aviation) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass.
3. (by extension) To utter a murmuring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice.
4. (chiefly of an insect) To fly while making such a sound.
5. (colloquial) To show a high level of activity and haste, energization or excitement, to be busy as a bee in one’s actions but perhaps mentally charged.
6. (intransitive) To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings.
7. (transitive) To communicate with (a person) by means of a buzzer.
8. (transitive) To cut the hair in a close-cropped military style, or buzzcut.
9. (transitive) To talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice.
10. (transitive) To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly.
11. Of a group of people, to talk about some interesting topic excitedly.

noun

1. (LGBT slang, countable) An overweight or obese gay man.
2. (by extension) Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
3. (slang, countable) A chubby, plump person.
4. (uncountable) Excess body fat.
5. A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus)
6. A plastic or other flexible package of meat, usually ground meat or luncheon meat.
7. An erection (erect penis).
8. In Europe, its close relatives, notably the fallfish.
9. In North America, the black bass.

noun

1. (archaic) The fees associated with belonging to such a club.
2. (humorous) Any set of people with a shared characteristic.
3. A black clover shape (♣), one of the four symbols used to mark the suits of playing cards.
4. A club sandwich.
5. A heavy object, often a kind of stick, intended for use as a bludgeoning weapon or a plaything.
6. A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
7. A playing card marked with such a symbol.
8. An association of members joining together for some common purpose, especially sports or recreation.
9. An establishment that provides staged entertainment, often with food and drink, such as a nightclub.
10. An implement to hit the ball in certain ball games, such as golf.
11. The slice of bread in the middle of a club sandwich.

verb

1. (intransitive) To go to nightclubs.
2. (intransitive) To join together to form a group.
3. (intransitive) To pay an equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To combine into a club-shaped mass.
5. (military) To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
6. (nautical) To drift in a current with an anchor out.
7. (transitive) To hit with a club.
8. (transitive) To raise, or defray, by a proportional assessment.
9. (transitive) To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end.
10. (transitive, military) To turn the breech of (a musket) uppermost, so as to use it as a club.
11. We went clubbing in Ibiza.

noun

1. (computing) A data structure consisting of a three-dimensional array; a data cube
2. (geometry) A regular polyhedron having six identical square faces.
3. (mathematics) The third power of a number, value, term or expression.
4. A Rubik's cube style puzzle, not necessarily in the shape of a cube
5. A cubicle, especially one of those found in offices.
6. Any object more or less in the form of a cube.

verb

1. (intransitive) To use a Rubik's cube.
2. (transitive) To cut into cubes.
3. (transitive) To form into the shape of a cube.
4. (transitive, arithmetic) To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice.

noun

1. plural of cub

verb

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

noun

1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
2. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
3. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
4. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
5. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
6. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.

verb

1. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.
2. (transitive) To bend or curve.
3. (transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb.
4. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
5. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
6. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
7. (transitive) To rein in.
8. (transitive, slang) Ellipsis of curb stomp.

noun

1. A crude or amateurish painting.
2. A soft coating of mud, plaster, etc.
3. Excrement or clay used as a bonding material in construction.

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes.
2. (transitive) To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To flatter excessively or grossly.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To put on without taste; to deck gaudily.

noun

1. Alternative form of doob (“doob grass”)

noun

1. (dialectal, Northern England) Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal.

verb

1. To beat (someone or something) with a stick.
2. To criticize harshly; to excoriate.
3. To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush.
4. To forcefully teach something.

noun

1. The Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus)

noun

1. (Internet slang) An image board post venerated for its post number, which ends in two repeated digits.
2. (colloquial) The name of the Latin-script letter W.
3. plural of dub

verb

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

adj

1. (dated) Silent; unaccompanied by words.
2. (dated) Unable to speak; lacking power of speech (kept in "deaf, dumb, and blind").
3. (figuratively) Pointless, foolish, lacking intellectual content or value.
4. (informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Extremely stupid.
5. Lacking brightness or clearness, as a colour.

verb

1. (dated) To silence.
2. (transitive) To make stupid.
3. (transitive) To reduce the intellectual demands of.
4. (transitive) To represent as stupid.

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of EPUB

noun

1. (informal) An error; a mistake in the performance of an action.

verb

1. (transitive) To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action.

noun

1. plural of fub

verb

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

noun

1. (informal) The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively).

verb

1. (informal) To make a sound like underwater bubbling; to glug.

noun

1. (Australia, slang) A despicable person; a lowlife.
2. (Australia, slang) A dirty person.
3. (countable) An insect at an immature stage of its life cycle.
4. (obsolete) A short, thick man; a dwarf.
5. (uncountable, slang) Food.

verb

1. (slang, dated) To eat.
2. (slang, dated, transitive) To supply with food.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up.
4. To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food.

noun

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

noun

1. A crewmember of these aircraft.
2. An aircraft nicknamed for these snakes, the SR-71.
3. Any of several venomous snake species of Asia.

noun

1. (slang, as a term of endearment) husband
2. plural of hub

noun

1. (botany) A loose panicle whose axis falls to pieces, as in certain grasses.
2. (zoology) The mane of an animal.
3. An American dance of West African origin that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks.

noun

1. A type of gelatine-based confection; its ingredients and consistency vary between countries.
2. Alternative spelling of jubé (rood screen)
3. An open drainage channel of a type common in Tehran.

noun

1. A knob; a small lump.
2. The waste or refuse of silk cocoons.

adj

1. (colloquial) Lubricating.

noun

1. (informal) Lubricant.

verb

1. (transitive, informal) To lubricate.

noun

1. plural of nub

adj

1. (obsolete) Causing numbness.
2. Emotionally unable to feel or respond in a normal way.
3. Physically unable to feel, not having the power of sensation.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become numb (especially physically).
2. (transitive) To cause (a feeling) to be less intense.
3. (transitive) To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute.
4. (transitive) To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally).

noun

1. plural of pub

verb

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

noun

1. (by extension) Something immature or unfinished.
2. An unfledged bird.

verb

1. Alternative form of quob

noun

1. (archaic) A quip or gibe.