HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. (India) An aromatic red powder that is used during the Holi festival.

noun

1. a shelter; a cavity in a hillside; a shelter on the side of hill with an overhung rock as its roof

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of air

verb

1. (UK, dialect) To earn.

noun

1. An affected manner intended to impress others.
2. plural of air

verb

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

noun

1. (Scotland) direction; quarter

verb

1. (Scotland) To guide; to direct.

adj

1. (of a room or building) Spacious, well lit, well ventilated.
2. (painting) Having the light and aerial tints true to nature.
3. Consisting of air.
4. Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand.
5. Not based on reality; having no solid foundation
6. Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy.
7. Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aerial.
8. Relating to the spirit or soul; delicate; graceful.
9. Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike.
10. an airy situation
11. light-hearted; vivacious

noun

1. Alternative form of emir

noun

1. (music) A musical piece written typically for a solo voice with orchestral accompaniment in an opera or cantata.

adj

1. (figurative) Devoid of value.
2. Describing a very dry climate. Typically defined as less than 25 cm or 10 inches of rainfall annually.
3. Very dry.

noun

1. plural of aria

noun

1. (botany) A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.

noun

1. The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee)

noun

1. (colloquial, barbershop music) A baritone (singer)
2. (colloquial, music) A baritone saxophone

noun

1. A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woollen cloth.
2. A litter to transport the corpse of a dead person.
3. A platform or stand where a body or coffin is placed.

adj

1. (Canada, colloquial, of a school or university course) Able to be passed with very little work; having the nature of a bird course.

noun

1. (UK, Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.
2. (UK, US, Australia, Ireland, slang) A girl or woman, especially one considered sexually attractive.
3. (UK, with definite article, especially in expressions such as 'give someone the bird') Booing and jeering, especially as done by an audience expressing displeasure at a performer.
4. (cooking, slang) A chicken or turkey used as food.
5. (obsolete) A chicken; the young of a fowl; a young eaglet; a nestling.
6. (slang) A man, fellow.
7. (slang) A prison sentence.
8. (slang) A satellite.
9. (slang) An airplane.
10. (slang, Canada, Philippines) A penis.
11. (slang, US) A kilogram of cocaine.
12. (with definite article) The vulgar hand gesture in which the middle finger is extended.
13. A member of the class of animals Aves in the phylum Chordata, characterized by being warm-blooded, having feathers and wings usually capable of flight, having a beaked mouth, and laying eggs.
14. A yardbird.

verb

1. (intransitive) To catch or shoot birds; to hunt birds.
2. (intransitive) To observe or identify wild birds in their natural environment.
3. (intransitive, figuratively) To seek for game or plunder; to thieve.
4. (transitive, slang) To bring into prison, to roof.
5. (transitive, television) To transmit via satellite.

noun

1. (Britain, slang) Alternative spelling of berk
2. (Northern England) A birch tree.
3. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

noun

1. (Internet slang, LGBT) A girl of boyish appearance.
2. (music, bagpipes) A type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several times, producing a low rippling sound.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause (a floating log) to rotate by treading on it.
2. (transitive) To throw down a coin as one's share in a joint contribution.
3. (transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To spin.
4. Alternative form of birle (“to drink, carouse”)

noun

1. (by extension, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Any ballpoint pen.
2. (uncountable, by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
3. A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.

noun

1. (Scotland) A strong trilling.
2. (Scotland) A whirring noise
3. (Scotland) The force of movement; rush, impetus, momentum, driving force
4. (Scotland) strength, vigor, energy
5. The currency of Ethiopia, divided into 100 santims.

verb

1. (Scotland) To lurch or set to spinning.
2. (Scotland) To make a whirring noise; make a noise like that of revolving wheels, or of millstones at work.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, archaic) A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.

noun

1. An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, Northern England) Bridge.
2. (US) A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft.
3. (nautical) A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast
4. Brigadier.

adj

1. (obsolete) Fierce; sharp; cold.

noun

1. (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
2. A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
3. An edge or border (originally specifically of the sea or a body of water).
4. The topmost rim or lip of a container.

verb

1. (transitive) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
2. Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut.

noun

1. A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.
2. One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.

noun

1. Vigour or vivacity.

noun

1. (Judaism) Ritual male circumcision.

noun

1. One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
2. One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
3. brit milah

verb

1. (intransitive) To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To fade away; alter.
3. (transitive) To break in pieces; divide.
4. (transitive) To bruise; indent.

Noun

1. A measure (in degrees) of the amount of dissolved solids in a liquid via its specific gravity; used especially to measure dissolved sugar in fruit juice and wine.

noun

1. Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”)

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To carry.

noun

1. (informal) Circumcision.
2. (obsolete) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.

noun

1. A fabric with a glazed finish.

noun

1. The cirl bunting

noun

1. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

noun

1. (Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
2. (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
3. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
4. (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
5. (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
6. (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
7. (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
8. (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
9. (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
10. (obsolete) A job, a position; (Britain) an appointment.
11. (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
12. (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
13. (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
14. (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
15. (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
16. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
17. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
18. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
19. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
20. A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
21. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
22. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
23. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
24. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

verb

1. (India) To complain, to grumble
2. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
3. (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
4. (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
5. (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
6. (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

noun

1. (medicine, colloquial) Cricothyrotomy; cricothyroidotomy.

noun

1. (UK, Australia, informal) A criminal.

noun

1. horsehair fabric

noun

1. (offensive) A cripple.
2. (rehabilitation, generally self-referential) A person with a disability.

verb

1. (dance) To do a Crip Walk.
2. (disability studies) To apply a disability justice perspective to something.

noun

1. Alternative form of kris (“dagger”)

noun

1. (cycling) A criterium race.
2. (informal) A proponent of critical legal studies.
3. (informal) Criticism.
4. (informal) Critique.
5. (medicine, colloquial) Haematocrit.
6. (slang, role-playing games) A critical hit.

verb

1. (transitive, slang, role-playing games) To land a critical hit on.

noun

1. (archaic) Synonym of sorghum

noun

1. One who dies.

noun

1. The Arabian cubit, whose value varied by place, time, and item from about 25–75 cm (10 in–2 ft 5½ in).

adj

1. (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
2. Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal.
3. Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
4. Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

noun

1. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A penis; dork.
2. (Midwestern US, dated, slang) A socially unacceptable person; an oddball.
3. A long Scottish dagger with a straight blade.

verb

1. (obsolete) To darken.
2. To stab with a dirk.

noun

1. (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
2. (figurative) Meanness; sordidness.
3. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
4. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.
5. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.
6. freckles

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

noun

1. (obsolete) A drop.

verb

1. (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
2. (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
3. (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
4. (transitive) To entice step by step.
5. (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
6. (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
7. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
8. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal) To scold.
9. (transitive, now chiefly Britain, dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
10. To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.

adj

1. Archaic spelling of dry.

noun

1. (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member, which projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
2. (colloquial) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
3. (finance) A dividend reinvestment program; a type of financial investing.
4. (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
5. (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
6. A drop of a liquid.
7. A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.

verb

1. (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
2. (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
3. (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
4. (intransitive) To leak slowly.
5. (intransitive, of the weather) To rain lightly.
6. (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of valuable things.
7. (transitive) To let fall in drops.

noun

1. A descendant of the prophet Muhammad.
2. A prince, commander or other leader or ruler in an Islamic nation.

noun

1. (historical) A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.

adj

1. (archaic or literary) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
2. (baseball) Between the baselines.
3. (cricket, of a ball delivered by the bowler) Not a no ball.
4. (nautical, of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.
5. (rugby, of a catch) Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
6. (shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
7. (statistics) Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.
8. Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
9. Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
10. Just, equitable.
11. Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
12. Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
13. Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.

adv

1. clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably

noun

1. (obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
2. (obsolete) Fairness, beauty.
3. (obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.
4. A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
5. A fair woman; a sweetheart.
6. A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).
7. An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
8. An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
9. Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).

verb

1. (transitive) To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
2. (transitive) To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
3. (transitive) To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
4. (transitive, art) To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.

noun

1. (Scotland, law) One in whom the property of an estate is vested, subject to the estate of a liferenter.
2. The price of grain in the counties of Scotland, as legally fixed on an annual basis.

adj

1. (slang) Amazing; excellent.

noun

1. (astronautics) An instance of firing one or more rocket engines.
2. (countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.
3. (countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).
4. (countable) The elements necessary to start a fire.
5. (countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.
6. (countable, Britain) A heater or stove used in place of a real fire (such as an electric fire).
7. (uncountable) A (usually self-sustaining) chemical reaction involving the bonding of oxygen with carbon or other fuel, with the production of heat and the presence of flame or smouldering.
8. (uncountable) The bullets or other projectiles fired from a gun or other ranged weapon.
9. (uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.
10. A severe trial; anything inflaming or provoking.
11. Liveliness of imagination or fancy; intellectual and moral enthusiasm.
12. Red coloration in a piece of opal.
13. Splendour; brilliancy; lustre; hence, a star.
14. Strength of passion, whether love or hate.

verb

1. (astronautics) To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
2. (intransitive) To shoot a gun, cannon, or similar weapon.
3. (intransitive, dated) To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
4. (intransitive, dated) To catch fire; to be kindled.
5. (intransitive, physiology) To cause an action potential in a cell.
6. (transitive) To drive away by setting a fire.
7. (transitive) To forcibly direct (something).
8. (transitive) To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc.
9. (transitive) To inflame; to irritate, as the passions.
10. (transitive) To light up as if by fire; to illuminate.
11. (transitive) To set (something, often a building) on fire.
12. (transitive) To shoot (a gun, rocket/missile, or analogous device).
13. (transitive) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct or poor performance).
14. (transitive, by extension) To terminate a contract with a client; to drop a client.
15. (transitive, farriery) To cauterize.
16. (transitive, intransitive, computer sciences, software engineering) To initiate an event (by means of an event handler).
17. (transitive, mining) To set off an explosive in a mine.
18. (transitive, sports) To shoot; to attempt to score a goal.
19. To animate; to give life or spirit to.
20. To feed or serve the fire of.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A freak; trick; quirk.
2. A stroke; lash.

verb

1. (intransitive) To move quickly; go off or fly out suddenly; turn out.
2. (transitive) To carry away or about; carry; move.
3. (transitive) To drive away.
4. (transitive) To rouse; raise up.

adj

1. Durable, rigid (material state)
2. Fixed (in opinion).
3. Insistent upon something, not accepting dissent.
4. Steadfast, secure, solid (in position)

adv

1. (now rare) firmly, steadily

noun

1. (UK, business) A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
2. (business, economics) A business enterprise, however organized.
3. (slang) A criminal gang, especially based around football hooliganism.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become firm; stabilise.
2. (intransitive) To improve after decline.
3. (intransitive, Australia) To shorten (of betting odds).
4. (transitive) To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify.
5. (transitive) To make firm or strong; fix securely.
6. (transitive, UK, slang) To select (a higher education institution) as one's preferred choice, so as to enrol automatically if one's grades match the conditional offer.

noun

1. A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snowcone slush is; can be hard or somewhat soft depending on recent and current weather conditions.

noun

1. plural of fir

adj

1. Obsolete form of fiery.

noun

1. (euphemistic) A fuck.
2. A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed).
3. An act of frigging.
4. Dated spelling of fridge.

verb

1. (intransitive) to mess or muck (about, around etc.)
2. (intransitive, obsolete) to fidget, wriggle around
3. (transitive, intransitive) to make a temporary alteration to something, to fudge, to manipulate
4. (transitive, intransitive) to masturbate
5. (transitive, intransitive, euphemistic) to fuck (misapplied euphemism)

adj

1. (Judaism) Alternative form of frum
2. (UK dialectal) Alternative form of fremd
3. (dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Flourishing, thriving
4. (dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Fresh; luxuriant
5. (dialectal, archaic or obsolete) Vigorous

adj

1. (UK, regional) Frightened.

noun

1. (archaeology) A similar material used in the manufacture of ceramic beads and small ornaments. (eastern Mediterranean; Bronze and Iron Age)
2. A frit fly.
3. A fused mixture of materials used to make glass.

verb

1. To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture
2. To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.

noun

1. Dated form of frizz.

noun

1. Alternative form of garri (“West African food made from cassava”)
2. Thinly sliced marinated ginger served as a condiment with sushi.

noun

1. A sarcastic remark.
2. A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
3. A stroke with a rod or switch.

verb

1. (intransitive) To jeer.
2. (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
3. (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
4. (transitive) To jeer at.
5. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.

noun

1. Obsolete form of gyre.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A roebuck two years old.
2. (US, slang, uncountable) Cocaine, especially in powder form.
3. (card games, slang, uncommon) A queen (the playing card).
4. (colloquial) A term of endearment. (see usage notes)
5. (derogatory) A boy or man who is weak or sentimental.
6. (sometimes offensive) A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
7. (somewhat childish) A female (tree, gene, etc).
8. A female child, adolescent, or a young woman.
9. A female servant; a maid. (see usage notes)
10. A young female animal.
11. One's daughter.
12. One's girlfriend.

verb

1. (somewhat informal) To staff with or as a girl or girls.
2. (transitive) To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.

noun

1. A vocalization similar to a cat's purring.

verb

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To whinge, moan, complain.
2. (dialectal) To grimace; to snarl.
3. (intransitive) To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition.

noun

1. (Britain, informal) An unemployment benefit cheque.
2. (in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.

verb

1. To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.

adj

1. (UK, rural dialect) Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.
2. (nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

noun

1. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.

verb

1. (nautical) to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.
2. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
3. To gird.
4. To measure the girth of.
5. simple past tense and past participle of gird

noun

1. (cartography) A method of marking off maps into areas.
2. (computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).
3. (electricity) A battery-plate somewhat like a grating, especially a zinc plate in a primary battery, or a lead plate in a secondary or storage battery.
4. (electronics) The third (or higher) electrode of a vacuum tube (triode or higher).
5. (motor racing) The pattern of starting positions of the drivers for a race.
6. (theater, television) An openwork ceiling above the stage or studio, used for affixing lights etc.
7. A grating of parallel bars; a gridiron.
8. A rectangular array of squares or rectangles of equal size, such as in a crossword puzzle.
9. A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.
10. A tiling of the plane with regular polygons; a honeycomb.

verb

1. To assign a reference grid to.
2. To mark with a grid.

noun

1. (UK, dialect) Heath or heather.
2. (obsolete) A dwarf.
3. A cricket or grasshopper.
4. A small or young eel.
5. Specifically, the broad-nosed eel. See glut.

verb

1. (transitive) To irritate or annoy.

adj

1. (obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
2. Disgusting; gross.
3. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
4. Ghastly or sinister.
5. Rigid and unrelenting.

noun

1. (MLE, slang, probably a fashionable word around 2006, now dated) A promiscuous woman.
2. (obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
3. (obsolete) Anger, wrath.

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.

noun

1. (obsolete) A snare; a gin.
2. A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.

verb

1. (intransitive) To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth.
2. (intransitive, dated) To show the teeth, like a snarling dog.
3. (transitive) To express by grinning.
4. (transitive) To grin as part of producing a particular facial expression, such as a smile or sneer.

noun

1. (archaic except rail transport) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
2. (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.
3. (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
4. (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
5. (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
6. (figurative) A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
7. (figurative) Assistance; help or encouragement.
8. (figurative) Control, power or mastery over someone or something; a tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
9. (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
10. (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
11. A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
12. A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
13. A handle or other place to grip.
14. A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
15. An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
16. Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza; the flu.

verb

1. (dialectal) To trench; to drain.
2. (transitive) Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
3. (transitive) To firmly hold the attention of.
4. (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.

noun

1. (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g., grindstone grit.
2. (usually in the plural) Coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge.
3. (usually in the plural) Husked but unground oats.
4. A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.
5. A measure of the relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper, the smaller the number the coarser the abrasive.
6. Inedible particles in food.
7. Sand or a sand–salt mixture spread on wet and, especially, icy roads and footpaths to improve traction.
8. Strength of mind; great courage or fearlessness; fortitude.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
2. Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger.
3. To cover with grit.

noun

1. (botany, countable) A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated.
2. (countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.
3. (countable) Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism.
4. (countable) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
5. (countable, engineering, firearms) A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
6. (obsolete) Haircloth; a hair shirt.
7. (slang, uncountable) Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy.
8. (uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.
9. (zoology, countable) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.

verb

1. (intransitive) To grow hair (where there was a bald spot).
2. (transitive) To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair
3. (transitive) To remove the hair from.
4. To string the bow for a violin.

noun

1. A successor in a role, representing continuity with the predecessor.
2. One who inherits, or has been designated to inherit, a hereditary title or office.
3. Someone who inherits, or is designated to inherit, the property of another.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To inherit.

noun

1. (obsolete) Reward, payment.
2. A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.
3. Payment for the temporary use of something.
4. The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To accept employment.
2. (transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job
3. (transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.
4. (transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.
5. (transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.
6. (transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

noun

1. roe of the salmon, red caviar

Noun

1. Someone who uses instant messaging.

noun

1. a small decorative box, hung from the sash of a kimono, for holding small objects

adj

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of intransitive.