HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative spelling of arval

noun

1. (Australia, informal) Afternoon.

verb

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

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.
2. (transitive) To turn aside or away.
3. (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.

Proper noun

1. name, today often transferred back from the surname.
2. name of modern usage.

noun

1. (now rare, archaic) A snack or light refreshment between meals.
2. A drink.
3. A mixture of cider and water.
4. A time for drinking.
5. Alternative spelling of bevor
6. Obsolete form of beaver.

verb

1. (intransitive) To tremble; shake; quiver; shiver.
2. (obsolete) To take a light repast between meals.

noun

1. (historical) A portion of plate armour to protect the lower face and the neck, typically in two parts, called upper bevor and lower bevor.

adj

1. (UK, euphemistic) Foolish or unwise.
2. (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
3. Making a fine show or display.
4. Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

noun

1. (dated) A Native American warrior.
2. (obsolete) A challenge; a defiance; bravado.
3. (obsolete) A man daring beyond discretion; a bully.

verb

1. (transitive) To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adorn; to make fine or showy.
3. After braving tricks on the high-dive, he braved a jump off the first diving platform.

noun

1. (law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
2. (music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.
3. (orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
4. (zoology) A pitta, all of which have more or less short tails.
5. An equal mix of espresso and half and half cream

noun

1. (obsolete) A carucate.
2. The act of carving

verb

1. (archaic) To cut.
2. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
3. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
4. To cut meat in order to serve it.
5. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
6. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.

noun

1. (mining, obsolete) One who works the tailings of a mine to extract small pieces of marketable ore.
2. A person who explores caves.

noun

1. Alternative form of corf

adj

1. (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
2. Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.

noun

1. (combinatorics, topology) A collection (or family) of subsets of a given set, whose union contains every element of said original set.
2. (construction) The distance between reinforcing steel and the exterior of concrete.
3. (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
4. (dated) A swindler's confederate.
5. (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative; cover story.
6. (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
7. (law) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
8. (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
9. (music) A new performance or rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
10. (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
11. (uncountable) Area or situation which screens a person or thing from view.
12. A cloth or similar material, often fitted, placed over an item such as a car or sofa or food to protect it from dust, rain, insects, etc. when not being used.
13. A cover charge.
14. A lid.
15. A setting at a restaurant table or formal dinner.
16. In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
17. The front and back of a book, magazine, CD package, etc.
18. The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
19. The top sheet of a bed.

verb

1. (chess, transitive) To protect or control (a piece or square).
2. (intransitive) To act as a replacement.
3. (intransitive, dated) To put on one's hat.
4. (military, law enforcement) To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
5. (music) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
6. (of a publication) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
7. (sports) To defend (mark) a particular player or area.
8. (transitive) To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
9. (transitive) To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
10. (transitive) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
11. (transitive) To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
12. (transitive) To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
13. (transitive) To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
14. To be enough money for.
15. To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
16. To deal with or include someone or something.
17. To extend over a given period of time or range, to occupy, to stretch over a given area.
18. To provide insurance coverage for.
19. To traverse or put behind a certain distance.

noun

1. (law, Scotland) A formal application to a court to make a particular order.

verb

1. (transitive) To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.

adj

1. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

noun

1. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
2. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
3. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
4. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
5. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
6. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
7. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
8. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

verb

1. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
2. (transitive) (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
3. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
4. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
5. (transitive) To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).

noun

1. (UK, Ireland) loon (bird)
2. (UK, London, dated) A passenger carrying vehicle using an underground route; specially, a diver tram, one using the former Kingsway tramway subway (1906-1952).
3. (slang, obsolete) pickpocket
4. (sports) A competitor in certain sports who is known to regularly imitate being fouled, with the purpose of getting his/her opponent penalised.
5. Someone who dives, especially as a sport.
6. Someone who works underwater; a frogman.
7. The New Zealand sand diver.
8. The long-finned sand diver.

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense of drive

noun

1. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs, often leading to a scoring opportunity.
2. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
3. (computer hardware) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with the mechanism for storing data.
4. (computer hardware) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk.
5. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and hitting it along the ground, normally between cover and midwicket.
6. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
7. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
8. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
9. (psychology) Desire or interest.
10. (retail) A campaign aimed at selling more of a certain product, e.g. by offering a discount.
11. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
12. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
13. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
14. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
15. A driveway.
16. A mechanism used to power or give motion to a vehicle or other machine or machine part.
17. A trip made in a vehicle (now generally in a motor vehicle).
18. A type of public roadway.
19. An act of driving (prompting) game animals forward, to be captured or hunted.
20. An act of driving (prompting) livestock animals forward, to transport a herd.
21. Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
22. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

verb

1. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball down the field.
2. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
3. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
4. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
5. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
6. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
7. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
8. (transitive) (especially of animals) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
9. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
10. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
11. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
12. (transitive) To cause to become.
13. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
14. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
15. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc.) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
16. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
17. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
18. (transitive) To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
19. (transitive) To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
20. (transitive) To separate the lighter (feathers or down) from the heavier, by exposing them to a current of air.
21. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
22. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
23. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
24. (transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft).
25. To be the dominant party in a sex act.
26. To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
27. To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

noun

1. (collective) A group of hares.
2. (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move (literally or figuratively).
3. A broad chisel used to bring stone to a nearly smooth surface.
4. A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.
5. A narrow drain or channel used in the irrigation of land.
6. A road or track along which cattle are habitually driven; a drove road.
7. The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel.

verb

1. (transitive) To finish (stone) with a drove chisel.
2. To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance.
3. simple past tense of drive

noun

1. A young eel.

noun

1. bitter vetch, blister vetch (Vicia ervilia).

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To disrupt; to overthrow.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To move (someone or something) out of the way.
3. (transitive, obsolete, also figuratively) To turn upside down; to overturn.
4. (transitive, often biology, physiology) To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards.

det

1. (with certain nouns) Denotes an abundance of something.
2. All of a countable group (considered individually), without exception.
3. Denotes equal spacing at a stated interval, or a proportion corresponding to such a spacing.

noun

1. (neologism) A group of stingrays.
2. (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
3. A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
4. A state of excitement or anxiety.

verb

1. To become fevered.
2. To put into a fever; to affect with fever.

noun

1. Obsolete form of fever.

noun

1. (Islam) A Zaydi Shiite Muslim, who disagrees with the majority of Shiites on the identity of the Fifth Imam.
2. (colloquial) A clenched fist.
3. (religion) A person who gives five percent of their income or five hours a week of their time to charity (a reduction of ten percent tithing).
4. (slang) A banknote with a value of five units of currency.
5. (slang, by extension) The value in money that this represents.
6. A mathematical puzzle played on a 5 × 5 grid.

noun

1. One who gives; a donor or contributor.

adj

1. (obsolete) Influential, important; authoritative.
2. (phonology, dated, of a sound) Dull, produced in the middle or back of the mouth. (See Grave and acute on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
3. Characterised by a dignified sense of seriousness; not cheerful.
4. Low in pitch, tone etc.
5. Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.

noun

1. (by extension) Death, destruction.
2. (by extension) Deceased people; the dead.
3. (historical) A count, prefect, or person holding office.
4. A written accent used in French, Italian, and other languages. è is an e with a grave accent (`).
5. An excavation in the earth as a place of burial
6. Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To impress deeply (on the mind); to fix indelibly.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To dig.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To entomb; to bury.
7. (transitive, obsolete, nautical) To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch — so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.

noun

1. (Druidism, Wicca) A place of worship.
2. A lodge of the Ancient Order of Druids.
3. A small forest.
4. An orchard of fruit trees.

verb

1. (forestry, of trees) To cultivate with periodic harvesting that also serves to create order (gaps and lines of trees) to facilitate further harvesting.
2. To cultivate in groves; to grow naturally so as to form groves.
3. To plough or gouge with lines.

noun

1. (UK, Scotland, dialect) Oats (the cereal).
2. (law, Scotland) The person who has custody of a document.
3. One who has something (in various senses).

verb

1. (Britain) To hem and haw
2. (Scotland) To talk foolishly; to chatter.

noun

1. One who collects bees into a hive.

noun

1. (chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
2. (figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
3. A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
4. An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.

verb

1. (computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
2. (nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
3. (obsolete) Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
4. Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
5. Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
6. To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
7. To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
8. To remain stationary or float in the air.

noun

1. One who jives.

verb

1. Obsolete form of carve.

noun

1. (archaic, dialect) cover

verb

1. (archaic, dialect) to cover

noun

1. Dated form of larva.

noun

1. A red alga/seaweed, Porphyra umbilicalis (syn. Porphyra laciniata), eaten as a vegetable.
2. One who laves: a washer.
3. Other seaweeds similar in appearance or use, especially:
4. Porphyra vulgaris
5. That which laves, particularly a washbasin.
6. Where one laves, a washroom, particularly a lavatorium, the washing area in a monastery.

adv

1. (obsolete) Rather.

noun

1. (mechanics) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it.
2. (mechanics) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied; — used for transmitting and modifying force and motion.
3. (mechanics) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it.
4. (obsolete, except in generalized senses below) A crowbar.
5. (rare) A levee.
6. A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a button).
7. Specifically, a bar of metal, wood or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually named as the first of the six mechanical powers, and is of three kinds, according as either the fulcrum F, the weight W, or the power P, respectively, is situated between the other two, as in the figures.

verb

1. (chiefly UK, finance) To increase the share of debt in the capitalization of a business.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense).
3. (figuratively, transitive) To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically).
4. (transitive) To move with a lever.

noun

1. A husband's brother.

adj

1. Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
2. comparative form of live: more live

noun

1. (anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
2. (countable, uncountable) This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
3. (obsolete chemistry) Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
4. A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
5. Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).

noun

1. (historical) A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
2. (historical) An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.

noun

1. (West Country, with "my") An informal term of address for any friend.
2. A person who loves something.
3. A sexual partner, especially one with whom someone is having an affair.
4. Obsolete form of louver.
5. One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.

noun

1. A dancer.
2. A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
3. A product that sells well.
4. Someone who or something that moves.
5. Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.

noun

1. (botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
2. (in the plural) One's neural structures considered collectively as, and conceptually equated with, one's psyche;
3. (in the plural) mental agitation caused by fear, stress or other negative emotions.
4. (nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.
5. (obsolete) Sinew, tendon.
6. (polymer technology) The elastic resistance of raw rubber or other polymers to permanent deformation during processing.
7. A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
8. Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
9. Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.

verb

1. (transitive) To give courage.
2. (transitive) To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
3. May their example nerve us to face the enemy.

adj

1. (Britain) Feeling nervous, anxious or agitated.
2. (US) Having nerve; bold; brazen.
3. (archaic) Strong; sinewy.
4. (technical) jittery; having unwanted signal characteristics.

adv

1. (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely).
2. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance.
3. Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously.

intj

1. A statement of defiance

noun

1. (obsolete) The slowworm.

noun

1. Misspelling of oeuvre.

noun

1. plural of over

adj

1. Open and not concealed or secret.

adj

1. Alternative spelling of pareve

noun

1. A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
2. One who paves; one who lays pavement.

verb

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of prove

noun

1. (baking) The process of dough proofing.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To experience.
2. (copulative) To turn out to be.
3. (homeopathy) To determine by experiment which effects a substance causes when ingested.
4. (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.
5. (printing, dated, transitive) To take a trial impression of; to take a proof of.
6. (transitive) To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify.
7. (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for.
8. (transitive) To put to the test, to make trial of.
9. Alternative form of proof (“allow (dough) to rise; test the activeness of (yeast); pressure-test (a firearm)”)
10. simple past tense of proove

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of rave

noun

1. (also figuratively) A thread which has unravelled from fabric, etc.; also, a situation of fabric, etc., coming apart; an unravelling.
2. (figuratively) A confusing, intricate, or perplexing situation; a complication.
3. A tangled mess; an entanglement, a snarl, a tangle.

verb

1. (also figuratively) Often followed by out: of clothing, fabric, etc.: to become unwoven; to fray, to unravel.
2. (also figuratively) Often followed by up: to form (something) out of discrete elements, like weaving fabric from threads; to knit.
3. (archaic or obsolete) To become entangled or snarled.
4. (archaic) Often followed by out: to undo the intricacies of (a problem, etc.); to clarify, to disentangle.
5. (obsolete) To destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.
6. (programming) In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
7. Often followed by out: of a reel of thread or skein of yarn; or a thread on a reel or a string of yarn in a skein, etc.: to become untwisted or unwound.
8. To confuse or perplex (someone or something).
9. To entwine or tangle (something) confusedly; to entangle.
10. To unwind (a reel of thread, a skein of yarn, etc.); to pull apart (cloth, a seam, etc.); to fray, to unpick, to unravel; also, to pull out (a string of yarn, a thread, etc.) from a piece of fabric, or a skein or reel.

adj

1. Of the color of the raven; jet-black

noun

1. (countable) Any of several, generally large and lustrous black species of birds in the genus Corvus, especially the common raven, Corvus corax.
2. A jet-black colour.
3. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.
4. Rapine; rapacity.
5. raven:

verb

1. (intransitive) To show rapacity; to be greedy (for something).
2. (transitive) To devour with great eagerness.
3. (transitive) To prey on with rapacity.
4. (transitive, archaic) To obtain or seize by violence.

noun

1. A person who attends rave parties, or who belongs to that subculture.
2. A person who raves or rants.

noun

1. plural of rave

verb

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

verb

1. (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.
2. (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.
3. (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

noun

1. (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.
2. (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
3. (military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
4. A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.

verb

1. (nautical, dialect) To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.

verb

1. Archaic spelling of reave.

noun

1. (travel, aviation, informal) A revalidated ticket.

noun

1. (architecture) Alternative form of reveal
2. A kind of dance.
3. A wake for the dead.
4. An instance of merrymaking; a celebration.

verb

1. (obsolete) To draw back; to retract.
2. To make merry; to have a happy, lively time.
3. To take delight (in something).

noun

1. The upper part of some upper garments (such as a shirt or jacket) that folds back at or near the neck to give the appearance of a collar or lapel. Unlike a collar, the rever is always formed from the same piece of fabric as the rest of the garment's bodice.

verb

1. (transitive) To face (an embankment, etc.) with masonry, wood, or other material.

verb

1. (obsolete) To exceed an adversary's wager in a card game.
2. (obsolete) To make a retort; to bandy words.
3. (obsolete) To vie with, or rival, in return.

noun

1. A form of theatrical entertainment in which recent events, popular fads, etc., are parodied.
2. Any entertainment featuring skits, dances, and songs.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of rive

noun

1. (US) A kind of small dumpling made from egg and wheat flour, often eaten in soup, especially among the Pennsylvania Dutch and other Germans.
2. (obsolete) A wrinkle; a rimple.

verb

1. (intransitive) To shrivel, wrinkle (up).
2. (transitive) To cause to be wrinkled, to shrivel.

adj

1. Broken into pieces; split asunder.
2. Torn apart.

verb

1. past participle of rive

noun

1. (poker) The last card dealt in a hand.
2. (typography) A visually undesirable effect of white space running down a page, caused by spaces between words on consecutive lines happening to coincide.
3. A large and often winding stream which drains a land mass, carrying water down from higher areas to a lower point, oftentimes ending in another body of water, such as an ocean or in an inland sea.
4. Any large flow of a liquid in a single body.
5. One who rives or splits.

verb

1. (poker) To improve one’s hand to beat another player on the final card in a poker game.

noun

1. plural of rive

verb

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

noun

1. (figuratively) Any fixed point or certain basis.
2. (obsolete) A light kind of footman's plate armour; an almain rivet.
3. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.

verb

1. (transitive) To attach or fasten parts by using rivets.
2. (transitive) To install rivets.
3. (transitive, figurative) To command the attention of.
4. (transitive, figurative) To make firm or immovable.

verb

1. past participle of rove

noun

1. (American football) A defensive back position whose coverage responsibilities are a hybrid of those of a cornerback, safety and linebacker.
2. (Australian Rules football) A position that is one of three of a team's followers, who follow the ball around the ground. Formerly a position for short players, rovers in professional leagues are frequently over 183 cm (6').
3. (archery, usually in the plural) A randomly selected target.
4. (baseball) The tenth defensive player in slow-pitch softball.
5. (croquet) A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball.
6. (obsolete) A sort of arrow.
7. A remotely-operated vehicle; ROV
8. A vagabond, a tramp, an unsteady, restless person, one who by habit doesn't settle down or marry.
9. A vehicle for exploring extraterrestrial bodies.
10. One who roves, a wanderer, a nomad.

verb

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

noun

1. A ticket or coupon that offers a discount.
2. One who keeps savings more than usual.
3. One who saves.

noun

1. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
2. (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
3. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
2. (intransitive) To be in military service.
3. (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
4. (intransitive) To present an attractive personal appearance.
5. (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
6. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
7. (transitive) To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
8. (transitive) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
9. (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
10. (transitive) To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
11. (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
12. (transitive) To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
13. (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
14. (transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
15. (transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
16. (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
17. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
18. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
19. (transitive, intransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
20. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
21. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
22. To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
23. To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.
2. A servomechanism or servomotor.

verb

1. To control by means of servocontrol

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
2. (intransitive) To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
3. (law) To disconnect; to disunite; to terminate.
4. (transitive) To cut free.

verb

1. (obsolete) To simmer.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A curve or bend.

noun

1. A kind of ochre used for marking sheep in some parts of England.

verb

1. (transitive) To mark with tiver, as sheep.

noun

1. (architecture) A crossbeam.
2. (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.
3. A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.

noun

1. A collection of things.
2. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

det

1. (dialect, nonstandard) other

prep

1. (dialect, nonstandard) over

noun

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of vair

noun

1. The calcined ash of coarse seaweed, used for the manufacture of soda and iodine.
2. The seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.

noun

1. (geology) An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.

noun

1. A Russian liquid measure, approximately 2.7 imperial gallons.

noun

1. plural of veer

noun

1. An American thrush (Catharus fuscescens) common in the Northern United States and Canada.

adj

1. (mycology) Referring to a veil or velum.
2. (phonetics) Articulated at the velum or soft palate.

noun

1. (phonetics) a sound articulated at the soft palate

noun

1. plural of verb

verb

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

adj

1. Having the characteristics of a verb.