HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (countable) A flint-like tool made from chert.
2. (geology, uncountable) Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.

noun

1. (military, chiefly in the plural) One of the platforms, consisting of two or more planks dowelled together, for the flooring of a temporary military bridge.
2. (now chiefly US) Any of several species of grass in the genus Bromus, generally considered weeds.
3. A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.

noun

1. (anatomy) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
2. (obsolete) A coffin.
3. A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
4. A chest of drawers.
5. A hit or blow made with one's chest.
6. Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.
7. The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

verb

1. (transitive) To deposit in a chest.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To place in a coffin.
3. To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)

noun

1. Alternative spelling of heth

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete, dialect) To come to an issue; to turn out; to succeed.

noun

1. (countable) A cry used in hunting.
2. (countable) A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
3. (uncountable) The game of prisoners' bars.

verb

1. (intransitive) To scurry.
2. (transitive) Alternative spelling of chivvy
3. (transitive) To chase or hunt.
4. (transitive) To maneuver or secure gradually.
5. (transitive) To vex or harass with petty attacks.

noun

1. plural of chew

verb

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

adj

1. Having a pliable or springy texture when chewed.

noun

1. (Australia, informal) Alternative form of chewie (“chewing gum”)
2. (US, informal) A type of soft and sticky cookie.

noun

1. plural of chia

Proper noun

1. a capital city of Chiba prefecture, Japan.

noun

1. (Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American girl; a Latina.
2. An orange-red dyestuff obtained by boiling the leaves of the bignonia.

noun

1. The chickpea.

noun

1. (India, Pakistan) A screen or blind made of finely slit bamboo and twine, hung in doorways or windows.
2. (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A young, typically attractive, woman or teenage girl.
3. (dated, endearing) A young child.
4. (military, slang) A friendly fighter aircraft.
5. A young bird.
6. A young chicken.

verb

1. (obsolete) To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
2. To compress the lips and then separate them quickly, resulting in a percussive noise.

noun

1. (American Southwest, chiefly in the plural) Sweet corn that has been cooked and dried on the cob.
2. (Canada, US, informal) A Latin-American boy; a Latino.
3. The fruit of the sapodilla, Manilkara zapota.

noun

1. plural of chic

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
2. (transitive) To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To make a clamorous noise; to chafe.

adj

1. (Scotland) Intimate, friendly.
2. Primary; principal.

noun

1. (US, Canada, offensive) An informal term of address for a Native American or First Nations man.
2. (heraldry) The top part of a shield or escutcheon; more specifically, an ordinary consisting of the upper part of the field cut off by a horizontal line, generally occupying the top third.
3. (sometimes ironic) An informal term of address.
4. A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc.
5. The principal part or top of anything.

verb

1. (US, slang) To smoke cannabis.

noun

1. Alternative form of chield

noun

1. (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
2. (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.
3. (computing) A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
4. (mathematics) A subordinate node of a tree.
5. (obsolete, specifically) A female child, a girl.
6. (pediatrics, sometimes, in a stricter sense) A kid aged 1 to 11 years, whereas neonates are aged 0 to 1 month, infants are aged 1 month to 12 months, and adolescents are aged 12 years to 18 years.
7. (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
8. A person considered a product of a place or culture, a member of a tribe or culture, regardless of age.
9. Alternative form of childe (“youth of noble birth”)
10. Anything derived from or caused by something.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.

noun

1. (Southern US, African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of child.
2. (US, regional) Alternative form of chili (a chili pepper).

noun

1. (Cincinnati) Cincinnati chili.
2. (Indian Chinese cuisine) A spicy stew of chicken or paneer, capsicum and onion, eaten as an appetizer.
3. (chiefly US) A dish made with chili peppers and other ingredients, such as beans and beef.
4. (countable) The pungent, spicy fresh or dried fruit of any of several cultivated varieties of capsicum peppers, used in cooking.
5. (uncountable) Powdered chili pepper, used as a spice or flavouring in cooking.

abbrev

1. (West Country, obsolete) I will

adj

1. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
2. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
3. (slang) Okay, not a problem.
4. Moderately cold or chilly.
5. Unwelcoming; not cordial.

noun

1. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
2. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
3. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
4. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
5. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
6. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
7. Calmness; equanimity.
8. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become cold.
2. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
3. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
4. (intransitive, slang) To relax; to lie back.
5. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
6. (transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
7. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.

Noun

1. The edge of a cask, etc; a chine.

noun

1. (music) A musical instrument producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell (e.g. a tubular metal bar) or actually a bell. Often used in the plural to refer to the set: the chimes.
2. A small bell or other ringing or tone-making device as a component of some other device.
3. A small hammer or other device used to strike a bell.
4. Alternative form of chine (“edge of a cask; part of a ship; etc.”)
5. An individual ringing component of such a set.
6. The sound of such an instrument or device.

verb

1. (intransitive) To agree; to correspond.
2. (intransitive) To make the sound of a chime.
3. (transitive) To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
4. (transitive) To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically.
5. To make a rude correspondence of sounds; to jingle, as in rhyming.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of chimpanzee.

verb

1. (informal, often derogatory) To get very excited when showing images on a digital camera.
2. (informal, often derogatory) To review each image on a digital camera after it is taken.

noun

1. (countable) Synonym of China rose, in its various senses.
2. (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, Australia, South Africa) Synonym of friend.
3. (countable, games, chiefly US, obsolete) A glazed china marble.
4. (countable, music) A kind of drum cymbal approximating a Chinese style of cymbal, but usually with Turkish influences.
5. (uncountable) Chinaware: porcelain tableware.
6. (uncountable) Synonym of China root, the root of Smilax china (particularly) as a medicine.
7. (uncountable) Synonym of porcelain, a hard white translucent ceramic made from kaolin, now (chiefly US) sometimes distinguished in reference to tableware as fine or good china.
8. (uncountable, chiefly US, dated) Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
9. (uncountable, dated) Tea from China, (particularly) varieties cured by smoking or opposed to Indian cultivars.
10. (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.

noun

1. (Southern England, Vancouver) A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea.
2. (aeronautics) A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
3. (nautical) A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck.
4. (nautical) A sharp angle in the cross section of a hull.
5. A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking.
6. The back of the blade on a scythe.
7. The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
8. The spine of an animal.
9. The top of a ridge.

verb

1. (obsolete) To crack, split, fissure, break.
2. (transitive) To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
3. To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine.

intj

1. The sound of metal or glass clinking.

noun

1. (Scotland, slang) Cocaine.
2. (countable) A ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.
3. (uncountable, slang) Money (from the sound of a cash register ringing up an amount).
4. (zoology) A high-pitched mating call made by the male kakapo.
5. A pair of small bowl-shaped finger cymbals made of thick and heavy bronze, used in the music of Thailand and Cambodia.

verb

1. (MLE, slang) To stab.
2. (zoology, intransitive) Of the male kakapo: to make its high-pitched mating call.
3. To chink or clink; to make a ringing sound, as of metal or glass being struck.

noun

1. (countable) A slight sound as of metal objects touching each other; a clink.
2. (figuratively) A vulnerability or flaw in a protection system or in any otherwise formidable system.
3. (uncountable, colloquial, now rare) Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
4. A chip or dent in something metallic.
5. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
6. Alternative form of kink (“gasp for breath”)
7. Alternative letter-case form of Chink

verb

1. (intransitive) To crack; to open.
2. (intransitive) To make a slight sound like that of metal objects touching.
3. (transitive) To cause to make a sharp metallic sound, as coins, small pieces of metal, etc., by bringing them into collision with each other.
4. (transitive) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.
5. (transitive) To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk.

noun

1. A coarse cotton fabric commonly used to make trousers and uniforms.

noun

1. plural of chin

verb

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

noun

1. Obsolete form of chintz.

noun

1. (slang) A carpenter.
2. plural of chip

verb

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

adj

1. (colloquial, US, chiefly New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits

noun

1. the sound of a spoon rapidly whisking around a pot or basin.

verb

1. (intransitive, especially as "chirk up") To become happier.
2. (transitive, especially as "chirk up") To make happier.
3. To make the sound of a bird; to chirp.

noun

1. (Scotland) A kind of musical warble.

verb

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To emit a low sound; to warble.

noun

1. A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc.

verb

1. (obsolete) To chirp or to make a mournful cry, as a bird does.

noun

1. (informal, countable) A chiropractor.
2. (informal, uncountable) Chiropractic.

noun

1. (radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) A pulse of signal whose frequency sweeps through a band of frequencies for the duration of the pulse.
2. A short, sharp or high note or noise, as of a bird or insect.

verb

1. (Canada) To speak rapid insulting comical banter back and forth.
2. (intransitive) To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets.
3. (intransitive) To speak in a high-pitched staccato.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.
5. (transitive, radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration.

noun

1. The trilled sound made by an insect.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada).

noun

1. The Tibetan antelope, Pantholops hodgsonii.

noun

1. plural of chit

verb

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

noun

1. (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; The green onion; the scallion.
2. (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
3. (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
4. (thieves' cant) A file.
5. (thieves' cant) A knife.
6. (thieves' cant) A saw.
7. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

verb

1. (thieves' cant) To cut.
2. (thieves' cant) To stab.

noun

1. Alternative form of chevy

verb

1. Obsolete form of choke.

adv

1. (nautical) Entirely; quite.

noun

1. (nautical) Any fitting or fixture used to restrict movement, especially movement of a line; traditionally was a fixture near a bulwark with two horns pointing towards each other, with a gap between where the line can be inserted.
2. (obsolete) An encounter.
3. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a wheel to prevent it from rolling.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To fill up, as a cavity.
2. (nautical) To insert a line in a chock.
3. (obsolete) To encounter.
4. (transitive) To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch.
5. To make a dull sound.

noun

1. (Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier.
2. (Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone.
3. (Australia, slang) An army reservist.
4. Clipping of chocolate.

noun

1. plural of chous

noun

1. A long-sleeved Afghan garment generally made of soft woollen material and embroidered on the sleeves and shoulders.

noun

1. (on fixed-blade knives) The portion where the heel meets the bolster.
2. (on folding knives) The indentation of a pocket-knife blade where it joins the tang.
3. An unsharpened portion of a knife blade at the base of the blade, near the handle of the knife.
4. The region of a knife where such a portion is, or would be if it existed; the region may be arranged as a grip, guard, or combination thereof (a finger choil), or it may be a notch demarking the end of the sharpened edge (a sharpening choil).

noun

1. (Christian angelology) One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
2. (architecture) The part of a church where the choir assembles for song.
3. A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
4. Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.

verb

1. (intransitive) To sing in concert.

noun

1. (electronics) A choking coil.
2. (sports) In wrestling, karate (etc.), a type of hold that can result in strangulation.
3. A constriction at the muzzle end of a shotgun barrel which affects the spread of the shot.
4. A control on a carburetor to adjust the air/fuel mixture when the engine is cold.
5. A major mistake at a crucial stage of a competition because one is nervous, especially when one is winning.
6. A partial or complete blockage (of boulders, mud, etc.) in a cave passage.
7. The mass of immature florets in the centre of the bud of an artichoke.

verb

1. (golf, baseball, transitive) To hold the club or bat lower on the shaft in order to shorten one's swing.
2. (intransitive) To be checked or stopped, as if by choking
3. (intransitive) To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict).
4. (intransitive) To have a feeling of strangulation in one's throat as a result of passion or strong emotion.
5. (intransitive, colloquial) To perform badly at a crucial stage of a competition, especially when one appears to be clearly winning.
6. (intransitive, fluid mechanics, of a duct) To reach a condition of maximum flowrate, due to the flow at the narrowest point of the duct becoming sonic (Ma = 1).
7. (transitive) To check or stop (an utterance or voice) as if by choking.
8. (transitive) To give (someone) a feeling of strangulation as a result of passion or strong emotion.
9. (transitive) To hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to kill (a plant by robbing it of nutrients); to extinguish (fire by robbing it of oxygen).
10. (transitive) To move one's fingers very close to the tip of a pencil, brush or other art tool.
11. (transitive) To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it.
12. (transitive) To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe.
13. (transitive) To say (something) with one’s throat constricted (due to emotion, for example).
14. (transitive) To use the choke valve of (a vehicle) to adjust the air/fuel mixture in the engine.
15. To make or install a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A chayote.
2. A small handleless cup in which saké is served.

adj

1. Alternative form of chokey

noun

1. A female cholo (Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody with similar characteristics).

noun

1. (fashion) A short-sleeved blouse worn under a sari; an Indian underbodice.

noun

1. (derogatory) A Mexican or Hispanic gang member, or somebody perceived to embody similar characteristics.

noun

1. (computing, rare) A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits, which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
2. The act of chomping (see below)

verb

1. (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character).
2. (intransitive) To bite or chew loudly or heavily.

adj

1. (slang, of an animal) Adorably fat or large.

noun

1. (slang) An adorably fat or large creature, particularly a cat.
2. Alternative form of chank (“type of shell”)

intj

1. (Australia) A call made to chickens.
2. An imitation of the call of a chicken.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A chicken, especially a hen.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A cooked chicken; a chicken dressed for cooking.
3. (Australia, dated) A fool.

noun

1. (New Zealand, Australia, dated, informal) An Englishman.

noun

1. (Nigeria, slang) Food.
2. (plural only, informal) One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency.
3. (plural only, juggling) A pattern that involves carrying the object with the hand over the next object before throwing it.
4. (plural only, nautical) The area where two tides meet and cause an irregular (choppy) sea.
5. (plural only, slang) One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery (originally of jazz); musical performance ability.
6. (slang) Jaws, mouth.
7. plural of chop

verb

1. Alternative form of chopse
2. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chop

noun

1. (aeronautics) The distance between the leading and trailing edge of a wing, measured in the direction of the normal airflow.
2. (anatomy) A cord.
3. (computing) A keyboard shortcut that involves two or more distinct keypresses, such as Ctrl+M followed by P.
4. (engineering) A horizontal member of a truss.
5. (geometry) A straight line between two points of a curve.
6. (graph theory) An edge that is not part of a cycle but connects two vertices of the cycle.
7. (music) A harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously.
8. (nautical) An imaginary line from the luff of a sail to its leech.
9. (rail transport) A section of subsidiary railway track that interconnects two primary tracks that cross at different levels, to permit traffic to flow between them.
10. The string of a musical instrument.

verb

1. (music) To accord; to harmonize together.
2. (transitive) To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune.
3. (transitive) To write chords for.

noun

1. (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
2. A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.

verb

1. (Scotland, dialect) To steal.
2. (US, dated) To do chores.

noun

1. (law) A thing; personal property.

verb

1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose
2. simple past tense of choose
3. simple past tense of chuse

noun

1. (geology) A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.

noun

1. A squat, rounded form of oenochoe with a trefoil mouth.

noun

1. (British India, history) An assessment equal to a quarter of the revenue, levied by the Marathas from other Indian kingdoms as compensation for being exempted from plunder.

noun

1. plural of chou

noun

1. (India, Pakistan) A courtyard.
2. (India, Pakistan) A marketplace or open area in a city or village.
3. (India, Pakistan) An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used in place names).

noun

1. plural of chow

verb

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

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the male given names Christopher and, less commonly, of Christian.
2. A diminutive of the female name Christina and of its variant forms.

noun

1. (geology) A period of time between two geomagnetic reversals.

noun

1. (slang, derogatory) Term of address for a fat person.
2. plural of chub

noun

1. (Scotland) A small pebble.
2. (Scotland, obsolete, slang, in the plural) Money.
3. (US, slang, dated) Food.
4. (cooking) Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
5. (cricket, informal) A throw, an incorrect bowling action.
6. (dialect, obsolete) A chicken, a hen.
7. (informal) A casual throw.
8. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
9. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc., the muting of a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
10. (slang) A friend or close acquaintance; term of endearment.
11. (slang) An act or instance of vomiting.
12. A clucking sound.
13. A gentle touch or tap.
14. Abbreviation of woodchuck.

verb

1. (South Africa, slang, intransitive) To leave; to depart; to bounce.
2. (intransitive, cricket) To throw; to bowl with an incorrect action.
3. (music) On rhythm guitar or mandolin etc.: to mute a chord by lifting the fretting fingers immediately after strumming, producing a percussive effect.
4. (obsolete) To chuckle; to laugh.
5. (transitive, informal) To discard, to throw away.
6. (transitive, informal) To jilt; to dump.
7. (transitive, informal) To throw, especially in a careless or inaccurate manner.
8. (transitive, informal, dated) To give up; to stop doing; to quit.
9. To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck.
10. To call, as a hen her chickens.
11. To make a clucking sound.
12. To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning.
13. To touch or tap gently.

noun

1. (obsolete) minced meat

noun

1. Cyperus esculentus, a species of sedge native to warm temperate to subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere having small edible tubers (tiger nuts).

adj

1. (Britain) Pleased, proud.
2. (Britain) Surly; annoyed; displeased; disgruntled.
3. (UK, dialect) stupid; churlish; loutish.
4. (obsolete) Swollen with fat.
5. (vulgar slang, of cheeks) Swollen.

adv

1. In a chuff manner.

noun

1. (scriptwriting, uncountable) Superfluous small talk that is free of conflict, offers no character development, description or insight, and does not advance the story or plot.
2. (vulgar slang) The anus
3. (vulgar slang) The vagina
4. A breathy noise produced by a tiger, similar in function to a cat's purr.
5. A coarse or stupid fellow.
6. A noisy puffing sound.

verb

1. (Britain, slang) To break wind.
2. (intransitive) To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive.
3. Of a powder, propellant, or explosive charge: to become extinguished and reignited intermittently.

noun

1. plural of chug

verb

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

noun

1. (Bangladesh, India) hearth, fireplace

noun

1. (colloquial, derogatory) A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
2. (colloquial, derogatory) An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
3. The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.

verb

1. Dated form of chomp.

noun

1. plural of chum

verb

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

noun

1. (comedy) A segment of a comedian's performance.
2. (computing) A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
3. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a bundle or cluster.
4. A part of something that has been separated.
5. A representative portion of a substance, often large and irregular.

verb

1. (transitive) To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size.
2. (transitive) To break into large pieces or chunks.
3. (transitive, slang, chiefly Southern US) To throw.
4. (transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.

noun

1. (Theodism) A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.
2. (archaic) A countryman, a peasant, a rustic.
3. (archaic) A person who is stingy, especially with money; a selfish miser, a niggard.
4. (derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.
5. A bondman or serf.
6. A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.

noun

1. Alternative form of chirm

noun

1. (telecommunications) The mass of people who are ready to switch carriers.
2. (telecommunications) The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
3. A milk churn.
4. A vessel used for churning, especially for producing butter.
5. Customer attrition; the phenomenon or rate of customers leaving a company.
6. Cyclic activity that achieves nothing.

verb

1. (US, informal, finance, travel) To continually sign up for new credit cards in order to earn signup bonuses, airline miles, and other benefits.
2. (finance) To carry out wash sales in order to make the market appear more active than it really is.
3. (informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.
4. (intransitive) To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake.
5. (of a customer) To stop using a company's product or service.
6. (transitive) To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream.
7. (transitive, figuratively) To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion.

noun

1. A low vocal sound made by some birds.
2. Alternative spelling of chirr (“insect sound”)

verb

1. Alternative spelling of chirr (“to make an insect sound”)
2. To make the low vocal sound of some birds.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of choose

noun

1. (informal) A parachute.
2. (nautical, slang, by extension) A spinnaker.
3. A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
4. A waterfall or rapid.
5. The pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.

verb

1. (informal, intransitive) To parachute.

noun

1. A digestive fluid containing fatty droplets, found in the small intestine.

noun

1. The thick semifluid mass of partly digested food that is passed from the stomach to the duodenum.

noun

1. (card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.
2. (informal) A firm hold.
3. (informal) Something that is obvious or certain to occur; a sure thing.
4. (informal) Something that is very easy to do.
5. A simple saddle girth used in Mexico.

verb

1. (card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.
2. To bring to certain conclusion.
3. To tighten down.

noun

1. (Scotland) Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
2. (hurling) An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
3. (onomatopoeia) A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects.
4. (sports) match; a game between two sides.
5. A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
6. A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
7. An angry argument
8. Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To argue angrily.
2. (intransitive) To make a clashing sound.
3. (intransitive, Scotland) To chatter or gossip.
4. (intransitive, in games or sports) To face each other in an important game.
5. (intransitive, of clothes, decor, colours) To fail to look good together; to contrast unattractively; to fail to harmonize.
6. (intransitive, of events) To coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
7. (transitive) To cause to make a clashing sound.
8. To come into violent conflict.

noun

1. (obsolete) The game of ninepins.
2. A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis; founder.

noun

1. (countable) A piece of cloth used for a particular purpose.
2. (countable, uncountable) A fabric, usually made of woven, knitted, or felted fibres or filaments, such as used in dressing, decorating, cleaning or other practical use.
3. (in idioms) Priesthood, clergy.
4. (metaphoric) Appearance; seeming.
5. (metaphoric) Substance or essence; the whole of something complex.
6. A form of attire that represents a particular profession or status.
7. Specifically, a tablecloth, especially as spread before a meal or removed afterwards.

adv

1. (chiefly US) Via the part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; via the economy section.

noun

1. (Britain, Australia) A long-distance, or privately hired, bus.
2. (chiefly US) The lower-fare service whose passengers sit in this part of the airplane or train; economy class.
3. (chiefly US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; the economy section.
4. (nautical) The forward part of the cabin space under the poop deck of a sailing ship; the fore-cabin under the quarter deck.
5. (originally Oxford University slang) A trainer or instructor.
6. (rail transport, UK, Australia) A passenger car, either drawn by a locomotive or part of a multiple unit.
7. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

verb

1. (intransitive) To study under a tutor.
2. (intransitive) To travel in a coach (sometimes coach it).
3. (intransitive, sports) To train.
4. (transitive) To convey in a coach.
5. (transitive) To instruct; to train.

noun

1. A Jewish priest: direct male descendant of the Biblical high priest Aaron, brother of Moses.

noun

1. (US, Dartmouth College, 1970s, slang, derogatory) A co-ed.

noun

1. plural of coho

noun

1. (architecture) The semidome of an apse, or the apse itself.
2. A marine gastropod of the family Strombidae which lives in its own spiral shell.
3. A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
4. Synonym of concher (“machine used to refine the flavour and texture of chocolate”)
5. The shell of this sea animal.

verb

1. To play a conch seashell as a musical instrument, by blowing through a hole made close to the origin of the spiral.
2. To refine the flavour and texture of chocolate by warming and grinding, either in a traditional concher, or between rollers.

noun

1. (US, obsolete) The hootchy-kootchy, a type of erotic dance.
2. (chiefly US, slang) The vagina or vulva.