(Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
(law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
(law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
verb
(intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
(transitive) To give (a person) an award.
(transitive) To give (an award).
(transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
browd
crowd
crowd
noun
(now dialectal) A fiddle.
(obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
(with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.
Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.
(intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers
(nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
(nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
(obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
(transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
(transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.
(transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
(transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
dewar
dewar
noun
A vacuum flask; a vessel which keeps its contents hotter or cooler than their environment without the need to modify the pressure, by interposing an evacuated region to provide thermal insulation between the contents and the environment.
dewer
dower
dower
noun
(law) Property given by a groom directly to his bride at or before their wedding in order to legitimize the marriage; dowry.
(law) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.
(obsolete) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
verb
(transitive) To endow.
(transitive) To give a dower or dowry to.
dowry
dowry
noun
(less common) Payment by the groom or his family to the bride's family: bride price.
(obsolete) Dower.
A natural gift or talent.
Payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride's family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage.
verb
To bestow a dowry upon.
drawk
drawk
noun
(archaic) Grass growing as a weed among corn.
(archaic) Ryegrass, darnel, cockle, tare, or wild oats.
verb
(UK, dialectal) To drench with water.
drawl
drawl
noun
A way of speaking slowly while lengthening vowel sounds and running words together. Characteristic of some southern US accents, as well as Scots.
verb
(intransitive) To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner.
(intransitive) To speak with a slow, spiritless utterance, from affectation, laziness, or lack of interest.
(transitive) To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently.
(transitive) To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance.
drawn
drawn
adj
Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.
verb
past participle of draw
draws
draws
noun
plural of draw
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draw
drews
drown
drown
verb
(intransitive) To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed.
(intransitive) To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
(transitive) To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid.
(transitive, figurative) To inundate, submerge, overwhelm.
(transitive, figurative, usually passive) To obscure, particularly amid an overwhelming volume of other items.
dwarf
dwarf
adj
(especially in botany) Miniature.
noun
(astronomy) A star of relatively small size.
(mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
(now often offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
verb
(intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
(transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny.
(transitive) To make appear insignificant.
(transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
dwyer
eward
ewder
rewed
rewed
verb
To wed again.
rowdy
rowdy
adj
Loud and disorderly; riotous; boisterous.
noun
(Victorian slang) money; ready money.
A boisterous person; a brawler.
rowed
rowed
adj
Formed into a row, or rows; having a specified number of rows.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of row
sward
sward
noun
(Philippines) A homosexual man.
(countable) An expanse of land covered in grass; a lawn or meadow.
(countable, obsolete except Britain, dialectal) The rind of bacon or pork; also, the outer covering or skin of something.
(countable, obsolete) The upper layer of the ground, especially when vegetation is growing on it.
(uncountable) Earth which grass has grown into the upper layer of; greensward, sod, turf; (countable) a portion of such earth.
verb
(intransitive) Of ground, etc.: to be covered with sward; to develop a covering of sward.
(transitive) To cover (ground, etc.) with sward.
swerd
swird
sword
sword
noun
(heraldry) The weapon, often used as a heraldic charge.
(tarot) A card of this suit.
(tarot) A suit in the minor arcana in tarot.
(weaponry) A long-bladed weapon device with a grip- a hilt (a pommel and cross guard), which is designed to cut, stab, slash and/or hack.
(weaving) One of the end bars by which the lay of a hand loom is suspended.
verb
To stab or cut with a sword
wader
wader
noun
(chiefly in the plural) A waterproof boot that comes up to the hip, used by fishermen, etc.
A long-legged bird associated with wetland or coastal environments.
One who wades.
waird
warda
warde
wards
wards
noun
plural of ward
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ward
wared
wared
verb
simple past tense and past participle of ware
weird
weird
adj
(archaic) Connected with fate or destiny; able to influence fate.
(archaic) Having supernatural or preternatural power.
(archaic) Of or pertaining to the Fates.
(archaic) Of or pertaining to witches or witchcraft; supernatural; unearthly; suggestive of witches, witchcraft, or unearthliness; wild; uncanny.
Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
adv
(nonstandard) In a strange manner.
noun
(archaic) Fate; destiny; luck.
(archaic, in the plural) The Fates (personified).
(informal) Weirdness.
(obsolete, Scotland) A spell or charm.
A prediction.
That which comes to pass; a fact.
verb
(transitive) To destine; doom; change by witchcraft or sorcery.
(transitive) To warn solemnly; adjure.
wider
wider
adj
comparative form of wide: more wide
wierd
wierd
adj
Misspelling of weird.
Obsolete spelling of weird
wired
wired
adj
(informal, of people or communities) Connected to the Internet; online.
(poker slang) Being a pair in seven card stud with one face up and one face down.
(poker slang) Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
(slang) Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
(zoology) Having wiry feathers.
Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of wire
words
words
noun
(meiosis) Angry debate or conversation; argument.
Lines in a script for a performance.
Lyrics.
plural of word
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of word
wordy
wordy
adj
The story was long and very wordy.
Using an excessive number of words.
world
world
noun
(archaic) Age, era.
(by extension) Any other astronomical body which may be inhabitable, such as a natural satellite.
(computing) The part of an operating system distributed with the kernel, consisting of the shell and other programs.
(countable) A planet, especially one which is inhabited or inhabitable.
(fiction) A realm, such as a planet, containing one or multiple societies of beings, especially intelligent ones.
(informal, singular or plural, followed by "of") A great amount.
(metonymically, with "the") A majority of people.
(tarot) The twenty-second trump or major arcana card of the tarot.
(uncountable, with "the") The Earth.
(video games) A subdivision of a game, consisting of a series of stages or levels that usually share a similar environment or theme.
(with "the" or a plural possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded collectively; human collective existence; existence in general.
(with "the" or a singular possessive pronoun) The subjective human experience, regarded individually.
A very large extent of country.
An individual or group perspective or social setting.
The Universe.
verb
To consider or cause to be considered from a global perspective; to consider as a global whole, rather than making or focussing on national or other distinctions; compare globalise.
To make real; to make worldly.
wrand
wride
wride
noun
(dialectal) A bush having multiple stalks proceeding from a single root.