HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

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

adj

1. Of a process, operating for a defined set of conditions, and then halting.

noun

1. (Philippines) A graduating class; school class.
2. (UK, dialect, Midlands) A bread roll.
3. (by extension) A quantity of anything produced at one operation.
4. (computing) A set of data to be processed at one time.
5. (obsolete) The process of baking.
6. A bank; a sandbank.
7. A field or patch of ground lying near a stream; the dale in which a stream flows.
8. A group or collection of things of the same kind, such as a batch of letters or the next batch of business.
9. The quantity of bread or other baked goods baked at one time.

verb

1. (informal) To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married.
2. (transitive) To aggregate things together into a batch.
3. (transitive, computing) To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process.

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. (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
2. (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
3. A case or outbreak of boils or sores.
4. A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; conglomeration; hodgepodge.
5. A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
6. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
7. An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

verb

1. (transitive) To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something
2. To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily.
3. To repair or mend clumsily.

adj

1. (slang, originally Polari) Very masculine, with a masculine appearance or attitude.

noun

1. (slang, LGBT, countable) A lesbian who appears masculine or acts in a masculine manner.

noun

1. (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
2. (countable) A fragment of music or poetry.
3. (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
4. (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
5. (countable) Something which is captured or caught.
6. (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
7. (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
8. (countable) The act of seizing or capturing.
9. (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
10. (countable, colloquial, by extension) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
11. (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
12. (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
13. (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
14. (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
15. (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
16. (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
17. (countable, sometimes noun adjunct) A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
18. (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
19. (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
20. (uncountable) The game of catching a ball.
21. A slight remembrance; a trace.
22. Passing opportunities seized; snatches.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be held back or impeded.
2. (intransitive) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
3. (intransitive) To get pregnant.
4. (intransitive) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
5. (intransitive) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
6. (intransitive) To spread by infection or similar means.
7. (intransitive, agriculture) To germinate and set down roots.
8. (transitive) Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
9. (transitive) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
10. (transitive) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
11. (transitive) To be hit by something.
12. (transitive) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
13. (transitive) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
14. (transitive) To become infected by (an illness).
15. (transitive) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
16. (transitive) To charm or entrance.
17. (transitive) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
18. (transitive) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
19. (transitive) To grip or entangle.
20. (transitive) To have something be held back or impeded.
21. (transitive) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
22. (transitive) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
23. (transitive) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
24. (transitive) To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
25. (transitive) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
26. (transitive) To travel by means of.
27. (transitive) To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
28. (transitive, computing) To handle an exception.
29. (transitive, cricket) To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
30. (transitive, dated) To grab, seize, take hold of.
31. (transitive, figuratively, dated) To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
32. (transitive, informal) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
33. (transitive, intransitive) To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
34. (transitive, intransitive, baseball) To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
35. (transitive, now rare) To seize (an opportunity) when it occurs.
36. (transitive, rare) To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
37. (transitive, rowing) To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
38. (transitive, surfing) To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.

Proper noun

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

Proper noun

1. name and of its variant forms, also used as a formal given name in the 20th century.

noun

1. (dialect, Scotland, Northern England) The jaw.

noun

1. (music) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music.
2. A repetitive song, typically an incantation or part of a ritual.
3. Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
4. Type of singing done generally without instruments and harmony.

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To sell horses fraudulently, exaggerating their merits.
2. To sing or intone sacred text.
3. To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
4. To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group.

adj

1. Obsolete form of chapped.

noun

1. (differential geometry, topology) Synonym of coordinate chart.
2. A diagram.
3. A graph.
4. A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
5. A navigator's map.
6. A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
7. A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
8. A tabular presentation of data; a table.
9. A written deed; a charter.

verb

1. (intransitive, of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
2. (transitive) To draw a chart or map of.
3. (transitive) To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
4. (transitive) To record systematically.

noun

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

noun

1. plural of chat

verb

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

noun

1. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
2. (obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.
3. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
4. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
5. Someone who cheats.
6. The weed cheatgrass.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner; to commit adultery, or to engage in sexual or romantic conduct with a person other than one's partner in contravention of the rules of society or agreement in the relationship.
2. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation.
3. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
4. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

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. (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

noun

1. Obsolete form of chintz.

noun

1. plural of chit

verb

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

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. (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. (obsolete) minced meat

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. (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.

verb

1. (Jamaica, intransitive) To prop, lean, rest.
2. (Jamaica, slang, intransitive) To hang out or chill out.
3. Pronunciation spelling of caught / (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of catch

noun

1. Alternative form of coath

adj

1. (obsolete) Familiar, known; well-known, renowned.
2. Agreeable, friendly, pleasant.
3. Comfortable; cosy, snug.
4. Marked by or possessing a high degree of sophistication; cultured, refined.

noun

1. (rare) A person with social graces; a refined or sophisticated person.
2. Social grace, refinement, sophistication; etiquette, manners.

noun

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

noun

1. Alternative spelling of crwth

noun

1. (historical) An archaic stringed instrument associated particularly with Wales, though once played widely in Europe, and characterized by a vaulted back and enough space for the player to stop each of the six strings on the fingerboard. Played variously by plucking or bowing.

noun

1. (nautical) a preservative, made from catechu gum boiled in water, used to prolong the life of a sail or net
2. Alternative form of catechu
3. Alternative form of cultch

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. (slang) wife

verb

1. Alternative letter-case form of Dutch (“treat cocoa with alkali”)

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.

intj

1. (Utah) Minced oath for fuck.

noun

1. (also figuratively) An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
2. (computing, specifically) An act of fetching data.
3. (originally Ireland, dialectal) The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).
4. A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
5. An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
6. The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
7. The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.

verb

1. (archaic) To accomplish; to achieve; to perform, with certain objects or actions.
2. (intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
3. (nautical) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
4. (nautical, transitive) To make (a pump) draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle.
5. (obsolete) To recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
6. (rare, literary) To take (a breath), to heave (a sigh)
7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
8. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
9. To reduce; to throw.
10. To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.

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.

verb

1. (African-American Vernacular, obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of fetch.
2. (African-American Vernacular, obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of fetch; fetched
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noun

1. A form of plaster of Paris formerly used in Persia.

noun

1. (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, slang) Men's underwear.

noun

1. (Scotland) A bedstead.
2. (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
3. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
4. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
5. (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
6. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
7. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
8. (slang) A gullet.
9. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
10. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
11. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
12. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
13. A trapdoor.
14. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
15. The act of hatching.

verb

1. (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
2. (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
3. (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.
4. (transitive) To devise.
5. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
6. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
7. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.

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.

verb

1. (now chiefly Scotland) To move irregularly up and down.
2. (now chiefly Scotland) To swarm (with).

noun

1. (mining) A car on low wheels, in which coal is drawn in the mine and hoisted out of the pit.
2. (mining) A jig or trough for ore dressing or washing ore.
3. (mining) The case of a flour bolt.
4. A baker's kneading-trough.
5. A box, chest, crate, case or cabinet.
6. A cabinet for storing dishes.
7. A coop or cage for keeping small animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, dogs, etc).
8. A measure of two Winchester bushels.
9. A piece of furniture (cabinet) to be placed on top of a desk.
10. A piece of furniture in which items may be displayed.

verb

1. (ambiintransitive) To move with a jerk; to hitch.
2. (mining, transitive) To wash (ore) in a box or jig.
3. (transitive) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.

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.

noun

1. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
2. A hangman.

verb

1. (rare) To hang.
2. Pronunciation spelling of catch.

noun

1. A packet of vellum leaves in which gold is beaten into thin sheets.

noun

1. (databases) A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
2. (electronics) An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
3. (obsolete) A crossbow.
4. (obsolete) A latching.
5. (obsolete) That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
6. A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
7. A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.

verb

1. (obsolete) To smear; to anoint.
2. (transitive) To catch; lay hold of.
3. To close or lock as if with a latch.

noun

1. (archaic) Strong desire; passion.
2. (informal) A lecher.
3. A stream or pool in boggy land.
4. Alternative form of leach

noun

1. Alternative form of lich

noun

1. (metalworking) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly embedded when a mould is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mould.
2. (sports) A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.
3. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
4. A device made of wood or paper, at the tip coated with chemicals that ignite with the friction of being dragged (struck) against a rough dry surface.
5. A marriage.
6. A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.
7. An agreement or compact.
8. Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.
9. Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
10. Equivalence; a state of correspondence.
11. Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.
12. Suitability.

verb

1. (intransitive) To agree; to be equal; to correspond.
2. (obsolete) To unite in marriage, to mate.
3. (programming) To be an example of a rule or regex.
4. (transitive) To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to.
5. (transitive) To equal or exceed in achievement.
6. (transitive) To make a successful match or pairing.
7. To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and groove at the edges.

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.

noun

1. (now rare, Scotland) A nightcap (hat worn to bed).
2. A linen or muslin hat, especially one of a type once commonly worn by elderly women and young children.

adv

1. (colloquial) Naturally; of course.

noun

1. (dialect) A notch.
2. The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.

noun

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

noun

1. (US slang) Woman.
2. (electronics) A portion of a mobile phone that overlaps the edge of the screen, used to house camera, sensors etc. while maximizing screen space.
3. (finance) A discontinuous change in a taxation schedule.
4. (informal) A level or degree.
5. A mountain pass; a defile.
6. An indentation.
7. Such a cut, used for keeping a record.

verb

1. (transitive) To cut a notch in (something).
2. (transitive) To fit (an arrow) to a bow by means of the notch cut at the end of the arrow; to nock.
3. (transitive) To join by means of notches.
4. (transitive) To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something.
5. (transitive, informal) To achieve (something); to add to one's score or record of successes.

noun

1. (historical) A system of tax farming in the Dutch Republic, where tax was not collected by the government, but by a private individual who had leased the right to collect the tax.

noun

1. (archaic) A paltry fellow; a rogue; a ninny; a fool.
2. (computing) A patch file, a file that describes changes to be made to a computer file or files, usually changes made to a computer program that fix a programming bug.
3. (firearms) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.
4. (firearms) A small piece of material that is manually passed through a gun barrel to clean it.
5. (historical) A small piece of black silk stuck on the face or neck to heighten beauty by contrast, worn by ladies in the 17th and 18th centuries; an imitation beauty mark.
6. (medicine) A cover worn over a damaged eye, an eyepatch.
7. (medicine) A piece of material used to cover a wound.
8. (medicine) An adhesive piece of material, impregnated with a drug, which is worn on the skin, the drug being slowly absorbed over a period of time.
9. (music) A sound setting for a musical synthesizer (originally selected by means of a patch cable).
10. (often patch cable, patch cord, etc.; see also patch panel) A cable connecting two pieces of electrical equipment.
11. (printing, historical) An overlay used to obtain a stronger impression.
12. (specifically) A small area, a small plot of land or piece of ground.
13. A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.
14. A local region of professional responsibility.
15. A piece of any size, used to repair something for a temporary period only, or that it is temporary because it is not meant to last long or will be removed as soon as a proper repair can be made, which will happen in the near future.
16. A piece of cloth, or other suitable material, sewed or otherwise fixed upon a garment to repair or strengthen it, especially upon an old garment to cover a hole.
17. A small piece of anything used to repair damage or a breach; as, a patch on a kettle, a roof, etc.
18. A small, usually contrasting but always somehow different or distinct, part of something else (location, time, size)

verb

1. (generally with the particle "up") To repair or arrange in a hasty or clumsy manner
2. To connect two pieces of electrical equipment using a cable.
3. To employ a temporary, removable electronic connection, as one between two components in a communications system.
4. To fix or improve a computer program without a complete upgrade.
5. To join or unite the pieces of; to patch the skirt.
6. To make a quick and possibly temporary change to a program.
7. To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt.
8. To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like
9. To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on.

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. (chiefly Australia, mineralogy, gemmology) A type of rough opal without colour, and therefore not worth selling.

verb

1. (transitive) To bleach rags in paper-making.
2. Obsolete form of poach (to cook in simmering water).
3. To thrust.
4. To trample.

noun

1. A ratchet wheel.
2. A white mark on a horse's face.
3. Alternative form of rach
4. Alternative form of rotche

verb

1. (intransitive) To sail by tacks.
2. (transitive) To streak.
3. (transitive) To stretch.

noun

1. An unsuccessful effort to vomit.

verb

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of reach
2. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To reck
3. To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.

verb

1. (US, informal) To slide; to scooch; to shuffle.
2. (especially Pennsylvania Dutch English) To squirm; to move around frequently.

Noun

1. A Scythian.

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.

noun

1. (informal) Moustache, mustache.
2. (now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.
3. Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.

noun

1. A pre-katana style Japanese sword.

noun

1. plural of tach

noun

1. (informal, usually as a term of address) teacher

verb

1. (ditransitive) To cause (someone) to learn or understand (something).
2. (ditransitive) To cause to know the disagreeable consequences of some action.
3. (ditransitive) To pass on knowledge to.
4. (intransitive, stative) To pass on knowledge generally, especially as one's profession; to act as a teacher.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate.

adj

1. (informal) Technical, of or related to technology.
2. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of tetchy.

noun

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A penitentiary.
2. A species of freshwater game fish, Tinca tinca.

verb

1. (regional) Pronunciation spelling of touch.

adj

1. (Northumbria, Scotland) Alternative form of teugh

noun

1. A stroke; a thwack.
2. the weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often thatch specifically

verb

1. (transitive) To strike; thump; thwack.
2. To cover a roof with thack.

noun

1. (Christianity) A case for the corporal cloth used in the Eucharist.
2. (biology) Any external case or sheath.
3. (botany) The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther.
4. (marine biology) The calcareous wall of a corallite, the exoskeleton of a coral polyp.
5. (medicine) The twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle.
6. (microbiology, planktology) The membrane complex enveloping the cells of certain plankton including diatoms and dinoflagellates.

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.

intj

1. A clear, echoing thud, as of an axe chopping wood.

verb

1. To make, or cause to make, a thock sound.

noun

1. (Commonwealth) A portable light source powered by electricity; a flashlight.
2. (US) An arsonist.
3. A blowtorch or oxy-gas torch.
4. A stick with a flame on one end, used chiefly as a light source; a similarly shaped implement with a replaceable supply of flammable material.

verb

1. To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick).

noun

1. (Australian rules football) A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
2. (UK, plumbing, dated) Tallow.
3. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
4. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument to the fingers.
5. (obsolete) A brief essay.
6. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
7. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
8. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
9. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
10. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
11. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the stern timbers at the counters.
12. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
13. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
14. A little bit; a small amount.
15. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
16. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
17. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
18. Form; standard of performance.
19. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
20. The children's game of tag.
21. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
22. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
23. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of a ship or its passengers: to land, to make a short stop (at).
2. (intransitive) To come into physical contact, or to be in physical contact.
3. (intransitive) To deal with in speech or writing; briefly to speak or write (on or upon something).
4. (intransitive) To make physical contact with a thing.
5. (intransitive, nautical) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To fasten; to take effect; to make impression.
7. (nautical) To bring (a sail) so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes.
8. (nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
9. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
10. (transitive or reflexive) To sexually excite with the fingers; to finger or masturbate.
11. (transitive) To affect emotionally; to bring about tender or painful feelings in.
12. (transitive) To cause to be briefly in contact with something.
13. (transitive) To come close to; to approach.
14. (transitive) To come into (involuntary) contact with; to meet or intersect.
15. (transitive) To concern, to have to do with.
16. (transitive) To consume, or otherwise use.
17. (transitive) To imbue or endow with a specific quality.
18. (transitive) To make intimate physical contact with a person.
19. (transitive) To make physical contact with; to bring the hand, finger or other part of the body into contact with.
20. (transitive) To physically affect in specific ways implied by context.
21. (transitive) To physically disturb; to interfere with, molest, or attempt to harm through contact.
22. (transitive, Scottish history) To give royal assent to by touching it with the sceptre.
23. (transitive, always passive) To disturb the mental functions of; to make somewhat insane; often followed with "in the head".
24. (transitive, archaic) To deal with in speech or writing; to mention briefly, to allude to.
25. (transitive, computing) To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
26. (transitive, dated) To affect in a negative way, especially only slightly.
27. (transitive, in negative constructions) To be on the level of; to approach in excellence or quality.
28. (transitive, now historical) To lay hands on (someone suffering from scrofula) as a form of cure, as formerly practised by English and French monarchs.
29. (transitive, slang) To obtain money from, usually by borrowing (from a friend).
30. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
31. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
32. To perform, as a tune; to play.
33. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
34. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.

Proper noun

1. The goddess of luck/fortune, counterpart of the Roman Fortuna.
2. Short for a main belt asteroid.

adj

1. (dialectal) Chilly, parky.

pron

1. (West Country, Somerset, obsolete, personal) I

noun

1. Any of several leguminous plants, of the genus Vicia, often grown as green manure and for their edible seeds.
2. Any of several similar plants within the subfamily Faboideae.

noun

1. (nautical) A group of sailors and officers aboard a ship or shore station with a common period of duty: starboard watch, port watch.
2. (nautical) A period of time on duty, usually four hours in length; the officers and crew who tend the working of a vessel during the same watch. (FM 55–501).
3. A particular time period when guarding is kept.
4. A period of wakefulness between the two sleeps of a biphasic sleep pattern (the dead sleep or first sleep and morning sleep or second sleep): the first waking.
5. A person or group of people who guard.
6. A portable or wearable timepiece.
7. The act of guarding and observing someone or something.
8. The act of seeing, or viewing, for a period of time.
9. The post or office of a watchman; also, the place where a watchman is posted, or where a guard is kept.

verb

1. (intransitive) To act as a lookout.
2. (intransitive) To be vigilant or on one's guard.
3. (intransitive) To remain awake with a sick or dying person; to maintain a vigil.
4. (nautical, of a buoy) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To be awake.
6. (transitive) To attend to dangers to or regarding.
7. (transitive) To be wary or cautious of.
8. (transitive) To mind, attend, or guard.
9. (transitive) To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention.
10. (transitive, intransitive) To look at, see, or view for a period of time.
11. (transitive, obsolete) To be on the lookout for; to wait for expectantly.

noun

1. (Scotland) A form of sieve used to winnow grain; the weight of its contents.

verb

1. (Scotland) To winnow grain using such a device.

noun

1. (figurative, derogatory) An ugly or unpleasant woman.
2. (geometry) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
3. (now usually particularly) A woman who is learned in and actively practices witchcraft.
4. A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat and used as a taper.
5. A person who practices witchcraft.
6. Arnoglossus scapha, found near New Zealand.
7. Glyptocephalus cynoglossus (Torbay sole), found in the North Atlantic.
8. Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis (megrim), found in the North Atlantic.
9. One given to mischief, especially a woman or child.
10. One who exercises more-than-common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person.
11. The Indomalayan butterfly Araotes lapithis, of the family Lycaenidae.
12. The storm petrel.

verb

1. (intransitive) To dowse for water.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To practise witchcraft.
3. (transitive) To bewitch.

noun

1. A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
2. Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.

verb

1. (intransitive) To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht.