HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. Obsolete form of chapped.

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.