HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (biochemistry, countable) One of the six isoforms of actin.
2. (biochemistry, uncountable) A globular structural protein that polymerizes in a helical fashion to form an actin filament (or microfilament).

noun

1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.
2. The word hour is written with a silent aitch.

adj

1. (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
2. (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
3. Obsolete form of antique.
4. Playful, funny, absurd.

noun

1. (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
2. (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
3. (often in the plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
4. A caricature.
5. A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
2. (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
3. (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.

noun

1. (informal) Abbreviation of articulated bus
2. (informal) Abbreviation of articulated lorry; A semi-trailer truck.

noun

1. (slang) A person's head or brain.
2. The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.

noun

1. (LGBT, slang, derogatory) An obviously gay man.
2. (UK, obsolete, university slang) Tea (the drink).
3. (archaic, offensive) A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
4. (chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.
5. (colloquial, vulgar) A difficult or confounding problem.
6. (colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
7. (dated or specialised, dog-breeding) A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
8. (humorous, vulgar, colloquial, used with a possessive pronoun) Friend.
9. (obsolete, informal, of a man) A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
10. (vulgar, colloquial) A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
11. (vulgar, figurative) Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
12. (vulgar, informal, slang) Place; situation
13. (vulgar, offensive) A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
14. (vulgar, offensive) A man considered weak, effeminate, timid or pathetic in some way
15. (vulgar, offensive) A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
16. (vulgar, offensive) A woman.

verb

1. (vulgar, intransitive) To behave or act as a bitch.
2. (vulgar, intransitive) To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected.
3. (vulgar, transitive) To spoil, to ruin.

noun

1. plural of cactus

Proper noun

1. A 20th century spelling variant of Cathy, diminutive of the female given name Catherine.

Proper noun

1. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine.
2. A diminutive of the female given name Caitlin.

Noun

1. A girdle.

noun

1. plural of cestus

noun

1. The white, waxy constituent of spermaceti.

noun

1. A small South American subspecies of tiger cat (Leopardus pardalis mitis), native to Argentina and Paraguay.

noun

1. Obsolete form of chintz.

noun

1. plural of chit

verb

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

adj

1. (obsolete) surrounded

noun

1. plural of cist

noun

1. A summons to appear, as before a judge.
2. citation; quotation

adj

1. That has a citation

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of cite

noun

1. One who is cited, or receives a citation.

noun

1. One who cites.

noun

1. plural of cite

verb

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

noun

1. (countable) A carnivorous catlike animal, Civettictis civetta, that produces a musky secretion. It is two to three feet (30–90 cm) long, with black bands and spots on the body and tail.
2. (countable, US) Any of several species of spotted skunk, in the genus Spilogale.
3. (uncountable) The musky perfume produced by the animal.
4. Any animal in the family Viverridae or the similar family Nandiniidae

noun

1. (obsolete) A cliff.

noun

1. (geology) The relatively flat part of a limestone pavement between the grikes

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clip

verb

1. (Scotland, intransitive) To fall heavily

noun

1. Any of several omnivorous mammals, of the genus Nasua or Nasuella, in order Carnivora, that live in the range from southern United States to northern Argentina.

noun

1. (physics) the weight of 1 litre of hydrogen at standard temperature and pressure. Equal to approximately 0.09 grams.

noun

1. (anatomy, archaic) Synonym of ulna, the bone of the human forearm.
2. (historical) Any of various units of length approximating this distance, usually around 35–60 cm.
3. The distance from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger used as an informal unit of length.

noun

1. (by extension) Any small mandarin orange variety such as a tangerine or a satsuma.
2. A clementine: a small, waxy-peeled orange hybrid cultivar that is easy to peel by hand.
3. A cute person or animal.

noun

1. (biochemistry) A waxy polymer of hydroxy acids that is the main constituent of plant cuticle.

noun

1. (anatomy) The true skin or dermis, underlying the epidermis.

noun

1. (botany) A plant whose seedlings have two cotyledons, a dicotyledon.

noun

1. plural of dictum

adj

1. (African-American Vernacular) snobbish and uptight
2. (African-American Vernacular) striving to seem stylish and respectable; pretentious
3. (African-American Vernacular) stylish and respectable; high-class

noun

1. (Ireland) A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
2. A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage.

verb

1. (intransitive) To dig ditches.
2. (transitive) To dig ditches around.
3. (transitive) To discard or abandon.
4. (transitive) To throw into a ditch.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey.
6. (transitive, intransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
7. Alternative form of deech

noun

1. A proclamation of law or other authoritative command.

adj

1. Moral, relating to morals.

noun

1. A set of principles of right and wrong behaviour guiding, or representative of, a specific culture, society, group, or individual.
2. The morality of an action.

verb

1. (transitive) To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out.

noun

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of vetch
2. A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.
3. A skin of a polecat.

noun

1. (informal) A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
2. (military, slang) A period of time spent in the military.
3. A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
4. A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
5. A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
6. A sudden pull.
7. Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.

verb

1. (informal) To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched.
2. (informal, transitive) Clipping of hitchhike, to thumb a ride.
3. (intransitive) To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling.
4. (intransitive) To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded.
5. (intransitive, UK) To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere.
6. (transitive) To attach, tie or fasten.
7. (transitive) To pull with a jerk.

adj

1. (poetry) of a syllable in verse, carrying the beat.
2. Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.

noun

1. (medicine) A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
2. (music) In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.
3. (prosody) The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
4. The pulse.

adj

1. (printing) Inserted in a reserved space of the text instead of in the main margin.
2. Set in by or as if by cutting.

adj

1. (figurative) Causing a constant, teasing desire for something.
2. (figurative) Having a constant, teasing desire (for something, to do something); impatiently eager.
3. (figurative) In a state of agitation; easily alarmed.
4. (figurative, derogatory, obsolete) Feeling or showing a high level of sexual interest.
5. (of a condition) Characterized by itching.
6. (of a person, animal or body part) Feeling an itching sensation; feeling a need to be scratched.
7. Causing an itching sensation.

adj

1. (law) Explicitly established or constituted by law.
2. Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.

noun

1. Alternative form of lich

adj

1. (biology) Living in flowing water; adapted to life in flowing water.
2. Characterised by flowing water; swiftly flowing; concerned with flowing rivers, streams, etc.

adj

1. of or relating to lysin
2. of, relating to, or causing lysis

noun

1. (historical) In Ancient Greek city-states, a resident alien who did not have the rights of a citizen and who paid a tax for the right to live there.

verb

1. (Ireland, Wales) To be absent from school without a valid excuse; to play truant.
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To grumble secretly.
3. (intransitive, dialectal) To pretend poverty.
4. (intransitive, dialectal) To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk.
5. (transitive, dialectal) To pilfer; filch; steal.
6. John said he was going to mitch the last lesson today.

adj

1. (botany, dated) Having no pointed process or awn; awnless.
2. (zoology, dated) Lacking certain defensive structures, such as spines or claws.

noun

1. (dialectal) A notch or small incision.
2. Alternative form of knitch (“a small bundle”)
3. Misspelling of niche.

adj

1. (mathematics) Of the eighth degree or order.

noun

1. (mathematics) A quantic of the eighth degree.

adj

1. Ontological.
2. Pertaining to being generally, as opposed to some theory of it (which would be ontology).

adj

1. (optics, relational) Of, or relating to optics or optical instruments.
2. (relational) Of, or relating to the eye or to vision.

noun

1. (archaic, humorous) An eye.
2. (optics) A lens or other part of an optical instrument that interacts with light.
3. (trademark in UK) A measuring device with a small window, attached to an upside-down bottle, used to dispense alcoholic drinks in a bar.

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or applied to, the language of the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians.

noun

1. An embroidery trim made of a series of small loops.

noun

1. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
2. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
3. (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
4. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
5. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
6. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
7. (geology) Pitchstone.
8. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
9. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
10. (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
11. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
12. (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
13. (now Britain, regional) A person's or animal's height.
14. (obsolete, uncountable) Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
15. (rare) The field of battle.
16. (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
17. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
18. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
19. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
20. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
21. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
22. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
23. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
24. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
25. An effort to sell or promote something.
26. Prominence; importance.
27. The angle at which an object sits.
28. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
29. The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
30. The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
31. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
2. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
3. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
4. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
5. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
6. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
7. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
8. (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
9. (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
10. (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
11. (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
12. (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
13. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
14. (transitive, card games, slang, of a card) To discard for some gain.
15. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
16. (transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
17. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
18. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
19. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
20. To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
21. To cover or smear with pitch.
22. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.

noun

1. A narration.

noun

1. plural of rectus

Noun

1. writing; document; scroll

noun

1. Pronunciation spelling of sight.

noun

1. (now chiefly dialectal) A brook; ditch; gutter; drain; ravine.
2. (slang) Situation.

noun

1. (obsolete) A row, line, or rank of trees.
2. (obsolete) A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet, especially a verse of Scripture.
3. A part of a line of poetry, especially in the distichal poetry of the Hebrew Bible and in early Germanic heroic verse such as Beowulf, where the line is composed of two (occasionally three) such parts.

adj

1. (informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.

noun

1. (Britain, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.
2. (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
3. (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission, so called because of the stick-like, i.e. twig-like, control (the gear shift) with which the driver of such a vehicle controls its transmission.
4. (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
5. (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
6. (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
7. (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25.
8. (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)
9. (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
10. (baseball) General hitting ability.
11. (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
12. (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
13. (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
14. (chiefly Canada, US) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
15. (computing) A memory stick.
16. (dated, letterpress typography) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
17. (field hockey or ice hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
18. (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
19. (fishing) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
20. (gambling) A shill or house player.
21. (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
22. (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole.
23. (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
24. (jazz, slang) The clarinet.
25. (magic) An assistant planted in the audience.
26. (military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.
27. (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers.
28. (military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
29. (motor racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
30. (nautical) A mast or part of a mast of a ship; also, a yard.
31. (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
32. (slang) A cigarette (usually a tobacco cigarette, less often a marijuana cigarette).
33. (slang) A handgun.
34. (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
35. (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
36. (slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)
37. (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment; beatings.
38. (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse.
39. A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
40. A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
41. A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
42. A negative stimulus or a punishment. (This sense derives from the metaphor of using a stick, a long piece of wood, to poke or beat a beast of burden to compel it to move forward. Compare carrot.)
43. A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size.
44. A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
45. A standard rectangular strip of chewing gum.
46. A stiff, stupidly obstinate person.
47. A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
48. A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
49. Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance.
50. The game of pool, or an individual pool game.

verb

1. (botany, transitive) To propagate plants by cuttings.
2. (carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
3. (dated, intransitive) To be puzzled (at something), have difficulty understanding.
4. (dated, intransitive) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
5. (dated, intransitive) To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse (in negative phrases).
6. (dated, transitive) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
7. (intransitive) Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
8. (intransitive) To become or remain attached; to adhere.
9. (intransitive) To jam; to stop moving.
10. (intransitive) To persist.
11. (intransitive) To remain loyal; to remain firm.
12. (intransitive, US, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
13. (intransitive, blackjack, chiefly UK) To stand pat: to cease taking any more cards and finalize one's hand.
14. (transitive) To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
15. (transitive) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
16. (transitive) To furnish or set with sticks.
17. (transitive) To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
18. (transitive) To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
19. (transitive) To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
20. (transitive, archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
21. (transitive, gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
22. (transitive, joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck.
23. (transitive, now only in dialects) To stab.
24. (transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
25. (transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.

adj

1. Not affected by pain or distress.
2. Not displaying any external signs of being affected by pain or distress.
3. Of or relating to the Stoics or their ideas.

noun

1. (philosophy) Proponent of stoicism, a school of thought, from in 300 B.C.E. up to about the time of Marcus Aurelius, who holds that by cultivating an understanding of the logos, or natural law, one can be free of suffering.
2. A person indifferent to pleasure or pain.

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to tabes.

noun

1. A pre-katana style Japanese sword.

adj

1. (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.
2. Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.

adj

1. (grammar) That expresses an end or purpose.
2. (linguistics) That expresses the perfective aspect.
3. Tending or directed towards a goal or specific end.

Proper noun

1. The state capital of Nayarit.

adj

1. (UK, dated) troublesome; unreasonable
2. (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.
3. (informal) Friendly or intimate.
4. (informal) Stupid.
5. (slang, chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
6. Abounding in number.
7. Deep, intense, or profound.
8. Densely crowded or packed.
9. Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
10. Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
11. Having a viscous consistency.
12. Heavy in build; thickset.
13. Impenetrable to sight.
14. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
15. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

adv

1. Frequently or numerously.
2. In a thick manner.

noun

1. (slang) A stupid person; a fool.
2. A thicket.
3. The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To thicken.

noun

1. (Myanmar) A Burmese measurement of weight, the kyattha, of about 16.3293 grams (0.576 ounces).
2. (archaic) A former currency of Cambodia.
3. (archaic) The baht, the currency of Siam (now Thailand).
4. An old Thai measurement of weight, the baht, of about 15 grams.

noun

1. plural of tick

verb

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

adj

1. infested with ticks (the tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina).

intj

1. (onomatopoeia, also tick) Representing short pitchless sound at a reasonable volume.

noun

1. (childish) a tick (particularly, a check mark).

adj

1. tinged or lightly coloured

noun

1. (archaic) A tint or colour.
2. Abbreviation of tincture.

verb

1. to tint, tinge or colour

adj

1. (dated) Alternative form of phthisic (“consumptive; phthisical”)

noun

1. (dated) Alternative form of phthisic (“consumption; phthisis”)

adj

1. (medicine, neuroscience) In a state of continuous unremitting action.
2. (music) Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.
3. (physics, pathology) Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.
4. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (phonetics, dated) being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.
5. Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.
6. Restorative, curative or invigorating.

noun

1. (US, Eastern Massachusetts) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.
2. (figuratively) Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.
3. (music) The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.
4. (music) The triad built on the tonic note.
5. (phonetics) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.
6. A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.
7. Tonic water.

verb

1. (medicine, archaic) To restore or invigorate.

adj

1. topical

noun

1. (Internet) Discussion thread.
2. (music) A musical sign intended to suggest a particular style or genre.
3. (obsolete) An argument or reason.
4. (obsolete, medicine) An external local application or remedy, such as a plaster, a blister, etc.
5. Subject; theme; a category or general area of interest.

adj

1. Pertaining to or shaped like a torus, or a section of a torus; toroidal.

adj

1. (figurative) Severely negative or harmful.
2. (figurative, of a person) Hateful or strongly antipathetic.
3. (medicine) Appearing grossly unwell; characterised by serious, potentially life-threatening compromise in the respiratory, circulatory or other body systems.
4. (toxicology, pharmacology) Having a chemical nature that is harmful to health or lethal if consumed or otherwise entering into the body in sufficient quantities.

noun

1. (electronics) A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor.

noun

1. (lichenology) An apothecium in certain lichens, having a spherical surface marked with spiral or concentric ridges and furrows.

noun

1. (obsolete, rare) A pulley, a windlass (“form of winch for lifting heavy weights, comprising a cable or rope wound around a cylinder”).
2. Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.

verb

1. (transitive) To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.