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adv

1. (nonstandard, proscribed) Alternative form of a bit.

noun

1. A horizontal or nearly horizontal passage from the surface into a mine, as contrasted with a shaft or vertical entry passage. An adit may be used for ventilation, haulage, drainage, or other purposes.

abbrev

1. (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of ain't

noun

1. (Scotland) direction; quarter

verb

1. (Scotland) To guide; to direct.

noun

1. plural of ait

adj

1. (chemistry) That has a torsion angle between 90° and 180°
2. Opposed to something.

noun

1. (fandom slang, often derogatory) A fan who objects to a particular creator, franchise, fandom, character, ship, etc., especially on moral or sociopolitical grounds.
2. A person opposed to a concept or principle.

prep

1. (rare) Alternative form of anti-

adj

1. (MLE) Obvious; blatant.
2. (MLE) Well-known; famous; renowned.

noun

1. (East Anglia) A small meal taken mid-morning while farming.
2. (Internet slang) A post intended to get a rise out of others.
3. (Northern England) A miner's packed meal.
4. (Tyneside) A packed lunch.
5. A light or hasty luncheon.
6. A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
7. Any substance, especially food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, trap, or net.
8. Anything which allures; something used to lure or entice someone or something into doing something
9. Food containing poison or a harmful additive to kill animals that are pests.

verb

1. (intransitive) (of a horse or other animal) To take food, especially during a journey.
2. (intransitive) (of a person) To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment during a journey.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
4. (transitive) To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line.
5. (transitive) To attract with bait; to entice.
6. (transitive) To intentionally annoy, torment, or threaten by constant rebukes or threats; to harass.
7. (transitive) To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport.
8. (transitive, now rare) To feed and water (a horse or other animal), especially during a journey.

noun

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A woman, a girl.

noun

1. (physics, dated) Synonym of abampere
2. (science fiction) A robot composed of living components

noun

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

verb

1. (UK dialectal, Black Country, Bristol, West Country, Northern England) Originally used to form the second person singular of be, but can denote other present tense forms, such as: are, am, is
2. How bist?
3. I bist goin' 'ome.
4. Where bist goin'.

noun

1. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
2. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
3. (figuratively) aggression
4. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
5. (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
6. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
7. (slang) Something unpleasant.
8. (television) Short for sound bite.
9. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
10. A small meal or snack.
11. The act of biting.
12. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
13. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
14. The wound left behind after having been bitten.

verb

1. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
2. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
3. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
4. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
5. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
6. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
7. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
8. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
9. (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
10. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
11. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
12. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
13. (obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.
14. (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
15. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
16. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
17. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
18. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

noun

1. (MLE) neighbourhood; hood; manor; ends.
2. plural of bit

noun

1. (nautical) A bollard.
2. (nautical) The bitts.

verb

1. (nautical, transitive) To put round the bitts.

noun

1. (computing) A logical operation in which a block of data is rapidly moved or copied in memory, most commonly used to animate two-dimensional graphics.

verb

1. (computing, transitive) To transfer by a blit operation.

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. (India, China) A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
2. (US and Britain dated) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
3. (US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
4. (US, slang, euphemistic) Shit.
5. (gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
6. (historical) A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.
7. (obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
8. (pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
9. A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
10. A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.
11. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
12. The embryonic growing bud of a plant

verb

1. (intransitive, Britain, dialect) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
2. (transitive, Britain, dialect) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
3. (transitive, Britain, dialect) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.

noun

1. (archaeology) A crypt cut into rock, chalk, or a tree trunk, especially a coffin formed by placing stone slabs on edge and topping them with a horizontal slab or slabs.
2. (historical, Ancient Greece) A small receptacle for sacred utensils carried in festivals in Ancient Greece.

noun

1. (informal) a citation

verb

1. to list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
2. to quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
3. to summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.

noun

1. (Australia) The central business district; downtown.
2. (UK) A settlement granted special status by royal charter or letters patent; traditionally, a settlement with a cathedral regardless of size.
3. (slang) A large amount of something (used after the noun).
4. A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.

noun

1. (informal, vulgar) Short for clitoris..
2. (offensive, vulgar) A term of abuse.
3. (slang, often derogatory) A penis likened to a clitoris, especially in terms of smallness.

verb

1. (slang, vulgar, often with "off") To stimulate the clitoris.

noun

1. Obsolete form of quoit.
2. Synonym of coition

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To throw.
2. (rare) to copulate; to mate

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.

adj

1. (informal, figurative) Having certain traits subtracted.
2. (of a food or beverage) Containing less fat, salt, sugar, or calories than normal, or claimed to have such.

noun

1. (Scotland) A clerical or ecclesiastical function in Scotland.
2. (Scotland) A session of exams
3. (Scotland, law) The proceedings under a criminal libel.
4. (by extension) Any habitual intake or consumption.
5. (countable) A controlled regimen of food and drink, as to gain or lose weight or otherwise influence health.
6. (usually capitalized as a proper noun) A council or assembly of leaders; a formal deliberative assembly.
7. The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

verb

1. (intransitive) To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health.
2. (obsolete) To eat; to take one's meals.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to take food; to feed.
4. (transitive) To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet.

abbrev

1. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.

noun

1. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
2. Force, power; especially in by dint of.
3. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.

verb

1. To dent.

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of dip

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. (Internet slang) Abbreviation of distribution.

noun

1. (US, New England) A trifling quantity or amount.

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To prepare for use or action; to make ready.

noun

1. plural of dit

noun

1. (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
2. (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
3. (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.

verb

1. (Scotland, rare) To stumble; to blunder.

noun

1. Alternative form of dhoti

noun

1. (comedy) An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
2. (computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
3. (genetics) An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
4. A change to the text of a document.
5. An edited piece of media, especially video footage.

verb

1. (biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
2. (comedy) To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
3. (computing) To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
4. (ergative) To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
5. (transitive) To be the editor of a publication.
6. To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
7. To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
8. To change a text, or a document.

verb

1. (intransitive) To come out, to be sent out or given off.
2. (transitive) To send out or give off.

adj

1. (social sciences, anthropology) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of étui

noun

1. (figuratively, often euphemistic) The act of departing from life; death.
2. (road transport) A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
3. (specifically, drama) The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
4. An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
5. An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.

verb

1. (bridge, intransitive) To give up the lead.
2. (intransitive) To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
3. (intransitive, drama, also figuratively) Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
4. (intransitive, often euphemistic) To depart from life; to die.
5. (theater) To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
6. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
7. (transitive, originally US, also figuratively) To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
8. (transitive, specifically) To alight or disembark from a vehicle.

noun

1. Misspelling of fate.

noun

1. (English law) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
2. (English law) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
3. (attributive) (Pertaining to) fiat currency.
4. An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
5. Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.

verb

1. (transitive, used in academic debate and role-playing games) To make (something) happen.

noun

1. (amateur radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
2. (printing) The pointing hand symbol ☞.
3. (slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
4. A group of men.
5. A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
6. A puffball.
7. The act of breaking wind; fise.
8. The talons of a bird of prey.

verb

1. (intransitive) To break wind.
2. (slang) To fist-fuck.
3. To close (the hand) into a fist.
4. To grip with a fist.
5. To strike with the fist.

noun

1. plural of fit

verb

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

verb

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of fix

adj

1. (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.

noun

1. (dated, slang) A homosexual.
2. (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.
3. A fluttering or darting movement.

verb

1. (UK, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
2. (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.
3. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
4. To move a tethered animal to a new, grazing location.
5. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
6. To move quickly from one location to another.

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.

symbol

1. Abbreviation for the unit of measurement: flux transitions per inch

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A charge for pasturage.
2. (UK, dialect) A sheaf of corn.
3. (equestrianism) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.
4. Manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving on legs.

verb

1. To teach a specific gait to a horse.

noun

1. A talent or natural ability.
2. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
3. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
4. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.

verb

1. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
2. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.

adj

1. Golden coloured.

noun

1. (UK, regional) A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding.
2. (countable, finance, UK) A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged).
3. (obsolete, uncountable) A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
4. (uncountable) Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding.
5. (uncountable, by extension) Gold-colored paint or other coating.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of gild

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. (law, dated) The essential ground for action in a suit, without which there is no cause of action.
2. (obsolete) Resting place (especially of animals), lodging.
3. The most essential part; the main idea or substance (of a longer or more complicated matter); the crux of a matter; the pith.

verb

1. To summarize, to extract and present the most important parts of.

noun

1. (obsolete) A gown.
2. Alternative form of gîte

noun

1. The corncockle.

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. The base of the penis.
2. The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.

verb

1. (transitive) To insert (a bodily extremity) as far as it can go into a sexual orifice so that it is impeded by the wider base to which it is attached (finger until palm, penis until pelvis).
2. (transitive) To provide with a hilt.

noun

1. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
2. (databases) An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
3. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
4. A clue.
5. A small, barely detectable amount.
6. An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.

verb

1. (intransitive) To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
2. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
3. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

intj

1. (dated) An injunction to be silent and/or to pay attention to what is being said or can be heard.
2. (dated) An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.

noun

1. (dated) An instance of an exclamation attracting attention or injunction to be silent.
2. Abbreviation of history.

verb

1. (US) Pronunciation spelling of hoist.

det

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of its

noun

1. plural of hit

verb

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

verb

1. (archaic) To play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously.
2. (obsolete) To leap; to caper; to romp noisily.
3. Pronunciation spelling of hurt.

noun

1. (as modifier) ikat weaving; ikat fabric.
2. A work woven in this style.
3. Traditional Indonesian decorative technique in which warp or weft threads, or both, are tie-dyed before weaving.

noun

1. islet: Alternative form of islot

abbrev

1. Alternative form of innit.

noun

1. (computing) Clipping of initialization.

verb

1. (computing) Clipping of initialize.

noun

1. Alternative form of inst.

noun

1. (historical) The currency of Peru between 1985 and 1991, replacing the sol.

prep

1. (Britain, archaic, India, mathematics) Expressing the operation of multiplication.
2. (colloquial) Interested in or attracted to.
3. (mathematics) Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".
4. After the start of.
5. Against, especially with force or violence.
6. Indicates division or the creation of subgroups or sections.
7. Indicates transition into another form or substance.
8. Investigating the subject (of).
9. To or towards the inside of.
10. To or towards the region of.

adj

1. (grammar) Abbreviation of intransitive.

noun

1. A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.
2. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

abbrev

1. Misspelling of isn't.

adj

1. (proofreading) Abbreviation of italic.

noun

1. (Jamaica, Iyaric) Pure, natural food suiting a Rastafari lifestyle.

noun

1. A constant teasing desire or want.
2. A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.

verb

1. (intransitive) To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched.
2. (intransitive) To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.
3. (transitive) To cause to feel an itch.
4. (transitive, colloquial) To scratch or rub so as to relieve an itch.

adv

1. likewise

noun

1. (India) Short for item girl.
2. (by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.
3. (informal) Two people who are having a relationship with each other.
4. (obsolete) A hint; an innuendo.
5. (psychometrics) A question on a test, which may include its answers.
6. A distinct physical object.
7. A line of text having a legal or other meaning; a separate particular in an account.
8. A matter for discussion in an agenda.
9. A short article in a newspaper.

verb

1. (transitive) To make a note of.

noun

1. (anatomy) A passage, especially the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the cerebral aqueduct.

Proper noun

1. The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
2. The Integrated Transport Smartcard Organisation

adj

1. (informal) Very small; itty

noun

1. (music) A rhythm pattern in Indian music
2. A clan, tribe, or community in India

noun

1. A woman who jilts a lover.

verb

1. (transitive) To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love.

noun

1. Alternative form of jit (“Zimbabwean dance music”)

noun

1. (rare, Britain, historical) A weight equivalent to about 1.5 pounds, adopted as a standard by British companies.

noun

1. (historical) Any Scottish garment from which the above lies in a direct line of descent, such as the philibeg, or the great kilt or belted plaid
2. A plaid, pleated school uniform skirt sometimes structured as a wraparound, sometimes pleated throughout the entire circumference; also worn by boys in the 19th-century United States.
3. A traditional Scottish garment, usually worn by men, having roughly the same morphology as a wrap-around skirt, with overlapping front aprons and pleated around the sides and back, and usually made of twill-woven worsted wool with a tartan pattern.
4. A variety of non-bifurcated garments made for men and loosely resembling a Scottish kilt, but most often made from different fabrics and not always with tartan plaid designs.

verb

1. (obsolete or colloquial, especially Ireland or African-American Vernacular) Nonstandard form of killed: simple past tense and past participle of kill.
2. To gather up (skirts) around the body.

noun

1. (India, historical) An individual installment of the yearly land revenue.
2. (Scotland) A chest.
3. (Scotland) A coffin.
4. (archaeology) Alternative form of cist (“crypt”)

verb

1. (Scotland, transitive) To place in a coffin.
2. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of kiss

noun

1. (Britain, dialectal) The brill (Scophthalmus rhombus), a type of flatfish.
2. (Egyptology) A measure of weight equivalent to ¹⁄₁₀ deben (about 0.32 ounces or 9.1 grams).
3. (Northern England, Scotland, dialectal) The stomach; the belly.
4. (US, prison slang) A (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially one passed illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
5. (astrology) A planetary configuration wherein one planet of a grand trine is in opposition to an additional fourth planet.
6. (banking, slang) A blank cheque; a fraudulent cheque, such as one issued even though there are insufficient funds to honour it, or one that has been altered without authorization.
7. (cycling, slang) A rider who is good at climbs but less good at descents.
8. (figuratively) A rapacious person.
9. (finance, slang) An accommodation bill (“a bill of exchange endorsed by a reputable third party acting as a guarantor, as a favour and without compensation”).
10. (geometry) A polygon resembling the shape of a traditional toy kite (sense 3): a quadrilateral having two pairs of edges of equal length, the edges of each pair touching each other at one end.
11. (military aviation, slang) An aeroplane or aircraft.
12. (sailing, dated) In a square-rigged ship: originally a sail positioned above a topsail; later a lightweight sail set above the topgallants, such as a studding sail or a jib topsail.
13. (sailing, slang) A spinnaker (“supplementary sail to a mainsail”).
14. A bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.
15. A bird of the genus Elanus, having thin pointed wings, that preys on rodents and hunts by hovering; also, any bird of related genera in the subfamily Elaninae.
16. A lightweight toy or other device, traditionally flat and shaped like a triangle with a segment of a circle attached to its base or like a quadrilateral (see sense 9), carried on the wind and tethered and controlled from the ground by one or more lines.
17. A tethered object which deflects its position in a medium by obtaining lift and drag in reaction with its relative motion in the medium.
18. Any bird of the subfamily Milvinae, with long wings and weak legs, feeding mostly on carrion and spending long periods soaring; specifically, the red kite (Milvus milvus) and the black kite (Milvus migrans).
19. Some species in the subfamily Perninae.

verb

1. (intransitive) To travel by kite, as when kitesurfing.
2. (intransitive, US, prison slang) To pass a (usually concealed) letter or oral message, especially illegally into, within, or out of a prison.
3. (intransitive, engineering, nautical) To deflect sideways in the water.
4. (intransitive, figuratively) To move rapidly; to rush.
5. (transitive) To cause (something) to move upwards rapidly like a toy kite; also (chiefly US, figuratively) to cause (something, such as costs) to increase rapidly.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).
7. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang, by extension) To steal.
8. (transitive, intransitive, banking, slang) To write or present (a cheque) on an account with insufficient funds, either to defraud or expecting that funds will become available by the time the cheque clears.
9. (transitive, intransitive, rare) To manipulate like a toy kite; also, usually preceded by an inflection of go: to fly a toy kite.
10. (transitive, slang) To tamper with a document or record by increasing the quantity of something beyond its proper amount so that the difference may be unlawfully retained; in particular, to alter a medical prescription for this purpose by increasing the number of pills or other items.
11. (transitive, video games) To keep ahead of (an enemy) in order to attack repeatedly from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

noun

1. (Northern England, Scotland, rural, countable) An acquaintance or a friend.
2. (archaic or obsolete, uncountable) Friends and acquaintances.

noun

1. plural of kit

verb

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

noun

1. A knitted garment.
2. A session of knitting.

verb

1. (figuratively, transitive) To join closely and firmly together.
2. (intransitive) To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted.
3. (intransitive) To grow together.
4. (intransitive, of bones) To heal following a fracture.
5. (transitive) To combine from various elements.
6. (transitive) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
7. (transitive) To form into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive, UK dialectal, obsolete) To seek; search for; inquire.

noun

1. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) Air.
2. (UK dialectal, chiefly Scotland) The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.
3. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.
4. (dance) The lifting of a dance partner into the air.
5. (engineering) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
6. (figurative) An improvement in mood.
7. (historical slang) A thief.
8. (horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
9. (measurement) The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.
10. (nautical) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below, and used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
11. (shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel of a shoe.
12. A liftgate.
13. A rise; a degree of elevation.
14. An act of lifting or raising.
15. An upward force, such as the force that keeps aircraft aloft.
16. Permanent construction with a built-in platform that is lifted vertically.
17. The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.
18. The amount or weight to be lifted.
19. The space or distance through which anything is lifted.

verb

1. (finance) To buy a security or other asset previously offered for sale.
2. (hunting, transitive) To take (hounds) off the existing scent and move them to another spot.
3. (informal, intransitive) To lift weights; to weight-lift.
4. (obsolete) To bear; to support.
5. (programming) To transform (a function) into a corresponding function in a different context.
6. (transitive) To alleviate, to lighten (pressure, tension, stress, etc.)
7. (transitive) To remove (a ban, restriction, etc.).
8. (transitive) to cause to move upwards.
9. (transitive, intransitive) To raise or rise.
10. (transitive, slang) To arrest (a person).
11. (transitive, slang) To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.
12. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
13. To elevate or improve in rank, condition, etc.; often with up.
14. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.