HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A plucked lute, originating in the classical and traditional music of Japan, characterized by a pear-shaped body and four or five high frets, giving the instrument a distinctively twangy tone.

verb

1. (informal, dialectal) present participle of go

noun

1. A bird, the scarlet honeycreeper (Drepanis coccinea).

Proper noun

1. A Capital: Des Moines.

Noun

1. One of the Native Americans formerly occupying the region now included in the state of Iowa.

adv

1. (poetic, archaic) Certainly, surely, indeed.

noun

1. (informal) A New Zealand dollar.
2. (military, slang) A member of the air force who does not fly.
3. A flightless bird of the genus Apteryx native to New Zealand.
4. A green-yellow colour, like that of kiwi fruit flesh (also called kiwi green).
5. A kiwi fruit.
6. Alternative letter-case form of Kiwi (person from New Zealand).

Noun

1. of: a list of phrases obtained by searching a corpus, each containing the node (or word of interest) and its surrounding cotext.

noun

1. a monetary unit of Angola used from 1975-1990, one hundredth of a kwanza.

noun

1. (by extension) A long draught from a drink.
2. (nautical) A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.
3. (obsolete) A person who drinks deeply.
4. (obsolete) Drink, liquor.
5. Warm beer flavoured with spices, lemon, etc.

verb

1. (nautical) To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line.
2. (obsolete) To suck.
3. To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff.

noun

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of someone who isn't me. used as a way to avoid self-designation or self-incrimination, especially in online drug forums
2. (UK) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
3. A dance move of the 1960s in which the arms are moved in a freestyle swimming manner.
4. A dizziness; swoon.
5. An act or instance of swimming.
6. The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be dizzy or vertiginous; have a giddy sensation; to have, or appear to have, a whirling motion.
2. (intransitive) To be overflowed or drenched.
3. (intransitive) To become immersed in, or as if in, or flooded with, or as if with, a liquid
4. (intransitive) To glide along with a waving motion.
5. (intransitive) To move around freely because of excess space.
6. (intransitive) To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means.
7. (intransitive, archaic) To float.
8. (transitive) To immerse in water to make the lighter parts float.
9. (transitive) To traverse (a specific body of water, or a specific distance) by swimming; or, to utilize a specific swimming stroke; or, to compete in a specific swimming event.
10. (transitive, historical) To test (a suspected witch) by throwing into a river; those who floated rather than sinking were deemed to be witches.
11. (transitive, uncommon) To cause to swim.
12. My head was swimming after drinking two bottles of cheap wine.

noun

1. Alternative form of swizz

noun

1. A small thin branch of a tree or bush.

verb

1. (colloquial, regional) To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something.
2. (obsolete, Scotland) To twitch; to pull; to tweak.
3. (transitive) To beat with twigs.
4. To observe slyly; also, to perceive; to discover.
5. To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend.

adj

1. Double; dual; occurring as a matching pair.
2. Forming a pair of twins.

noun

1. (US) A twin size mattress or a bed designed for such a mattress.
2. (aviation) A two-engine aircraft.
3. (crystallography) A twin crystal.
4. A room in a hotel, guesthouse, etc. with two beds; a twin room.
5. Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling.
6. Either of two similar or closely related objects, entities etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be, or be like, a pair of twins (for example, to dress identically); to be paired or suited.
2. (intransitive) To give birth to twins.
3. (intransitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart.
4. (transitive) To be, or be like, a twin to (someone else); to match in some way.
5. (transitive, obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide.
6. (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries); to pair with.

noun

1. A foolish or annoying person.
2. A person who twitters, i.e. chatters inanely.
3. A reproach, gibe or taunt.

verb

1. (transitive) To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease.
2. (transitive, computing) To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system).

noun

1. (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video etc. by a user.
2. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
3. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
4. (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
5. A mental image.
6. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
7. A point of view.
8. A wake.
9. A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
10. An intention or prospect.
11. Something to look at, such as scenery.
12. The act of seeing or looking at something.
13. The range of vision.

verb

1. (transitive) To look at.
2. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.

Noun

1. A very long instruction word; an explicitly created set of processor instructions to be executed simultaneously.

noun

1. (Zen Buddhism) A quality of simple or solitary beauty, especially as expressed in various forms of Japanese art or culture.

noun

1. A valley, gully, or stream bed in northern Africa and southwest Asia that remains dry except during the rainy season.

noun

1. (Britain, law, archaic) Often in the form waif and stray, waifs and strays: an article of movable property found of which the owner is not known, such as goods washed up on a beach or thrown away by an absconding thief; such items belong to the Crown, which may grant the right of ownership to them to a lord of a manor.
2. (by extension) A very thin person.
3. (by extension, botany) A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but is not persistently naturalized.
4. (nautical, chiefly whaling, historical) A small flag used as a signal.
5. A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast.
6. Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind.
7. Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance.

verb

1. (transitive) To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif.

noun

1. A prolonged cry, usually high-pitched, especially as of grief or anguish.
2. A sound made by emergency vehicle sirens, contrasted with "yelp" which is higher-pitched and faster.
3. Any similar sound as of lamentation; a howl.

verb

1. (intransitive) To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish.
2. (intransitive) To make a noise like mourning or crying.
3. (intransitive) To weep, lament persistently or bitterly.
4. (obsolete) Synonym of wale (“to choose; to select”)
5. (slang, music) To perform with great liveliness and force.
6. (transitive) To lament; to bewail; to grieve over.

noun

1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
2. Alternative form of wean

verb

1. (rare, transitive) To carry.
2. Misspelling of wane.

noun

1. (obsolete) A plank six feet long and one foot across.

verb

1. (Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
2. Nonstandard form of were.

noun

1. plural of wai

intj

1. (informal) Tells the other speaker to stop talking, typing etc. for a moment.

noun

1. (computing) Short for wait state.
2. (in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
3. (in the plural, obsolete, UK) Hautboys, or oboes, played by town musicians.
4. (obsolete) One who watches; a watchman.
5. A delay.
6. An ambush.

verb

1. (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
2. (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
3. (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
4. (obsolete) To attend as a consequence; to follow upon; to accompany.
5. (obsolete, colloquial) To defer or postpone (especially a meal).
6. (transitive, now rare) To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.)
7. (transitive, obsolete) To attend on; to accompany; especially, to attend with ceremony or respect.

noun

1. (Islam) A saint or prophet.
2. A provincial governor in certain Muslim contexts.

noun

1. (obsolete) Seaweed.
2. A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
3. An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.

noun

1. Alternative form of wheki (“the tree fern Dicksonia squarrosa”)

noun

1. (obsolete) A word.
2. (obsolete, Scotland) A lie; a falsehood.
3. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A quarrel.
4. A quick motion; a rapid, quiet movement, usually by small game.

verb

1. (obsolete, Scotland, intransitive) To tell a lie.
2. To move nimbly and with little noise, usually of small game.

noun

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
2. buttermilk

verb

1. (intransitive) Jog along; move or work briskly.
2. (transitive) Urge forward; drive briskly.
3. (transitive) Weird out or disturb someone.

noun

1. (mining) A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes
2. A bird, the Eurasian wigeon.
3. A fanciful impulse, or sudden change of idea.

verb

1. (rare, intransitive) To be seized with a whim; to be capricious.

noun

1. Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
2. The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
3. Whinstone.

noun

1. (African-American Vernacular, MTE) A mode of personal motorized transportation; an automobile, all makes and models including motorcycles, excluding public transportation.
2. (UK politics, by extension) The regular status of an MP within a parliamentary party, which can be revoked by the party as a disciplinary measure.
3. (UK politics, with definite article) A document distributed weekly to MPs by party whips informing them of upcoming votes in parliament.
4. (historical) A coach driver; a coachman.
5. (hunting) A whipper-in.
6. (music) A wippen, a rocking component in certain piano actions.
7. (nautical) A purchase in which one block is used to gain a 2:1 mechanical advantage.
8. (politics) A member of a political party who is in charge of enforcing the party's policies in votes; a whipper-in.
9. (roller derby) A move in which one player transfers momentum to another.
10. A blow administered with a whip.
11. A lash; a pliant, flexible instrument, such as a rod (commonly of cane or rattan) or a plaited or braided rope or thong (commonly of leather) used to create a sharp "crack" sound for directing or herding animals.
12. A spring in certain electrical devices for making a circuit
13. A whipping motion; a thrashing about.
14. The quality of being whiplike or flexible; suppleness, as of the shaft of a golf club.
15. The same instrument used to strike a person or animal for corporal punishment or torture.
16. Whipped cream.

verb

1. (figurative) To lash with sarcasm, abuse, etc.
2. (intransitive) To move very fast.
3. (intransitive) To snap back and forth like a whip.
4. (transitive) To hit with a whip.
5. (transitive) To mix in a rapid aerating fashion, especially food.
6. (transitive) To move (something) very fast; often with up, out, etc.
7. (transitive) To throw or kick an object at a high velocity.
8. (transitive) To urge into action or obedience.
9. (transitive, by extension) To hit with any flexible object.
10. (transitive, intransitive) To fish a body of water especially by making repeated casts.
11. (transitive, nautical) To bind the end of a rope with twine or other small stuff to prevent its unlaying: fraying or unravelling.
12. (transitive, nautical) To hoist or purchase by means of a whip.
13. (transitive, politics) To enforce a member voting in accordance with party policy.
14. (transitive, roller derby) To transfer momentum from one skater to another.
15. (transitive, slang) To defeat, as in a contest or game.
16. To sew lightly; specifically, to form (a fabric) into gathers by loosely overcasting the rolled edge and drawing up the thread.
17. To thrash; to beat out, as grain, by striking.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of whirr

noun

1. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

noun

1. (UK, slang, uncountable) Amphetamine.
2. (UK, slang, with "the") Pickpocketing.
3. (informal) Someone who is remarkably skilled at something.
4. (vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
5. A whirring or hissing sound (as above).

prep

1. (slang) Pronunciation spelling of with.

verb

1. (vulgar, slang) To urinate.
2. To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air.
3. To rush or move swiftly with such a sound.
4. To throw or spin rapidly.

noun

1. A bundle of thread. Alternative spelling of wick
2. Alternative form of wych (brine spring or well)

adj

1. (Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire) Alive; lively; full of life; active; bustling; nimble; quick.
2. (Britain, dialect, derogatory, chiefly Yorkshire, of inanimate objects) resistant to being put to use, stiff, stubborn (as for example a rope or a screw).

noun

1. (Britain, dialect, chiefly East Anglia and Essex) A farm, especially a dairy farm.
2. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) A maggot.
3. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) The growing part of a plant nearest to the roots.
4. (Britain, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire, horticulture) (Usually plural) The parts of weed roots that remain viable in the ground after inadequate digging prior to cultivation.
5. (Britain, obsolete, dialect, chiefly Yorkshire) Liveliness; life.
6. (curling) A narrow opening in the field, flanked by other players' stones.
7. (curling) A shot where the played stone touches a stationary stone just enough that the played stone changes direction.
8. (now dialectal) A corner of the mouth or eye.
9. (slang, euphemistic) The penis.
10. A bundle, twist, braid, or woven strip of cord, fabric, fibre, or other porous material in a candle, oil lamp, kerosene heater, or the like, that draws up liquid fuel, such as melted tallow, wax, or the oil, delivering it to the base of the flame for conversion to gases and burning; any other length of material burned for illumination in small successive portions.
11. Any piece of porous material that conveys liquid by capillary action, such as a strip of gauze placed in a wound to serve as a drain.

verb

1. (curling) To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction.
2. (intransitive, of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through.
3. (transitive) To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action.

adj

1. (Scotland, Northern England, now rare) Vast, great in extent, extensive.
2. (Scotland, slang) Antagonistic, provocative.
3. (computing) Of or supporting a greater range of text characters than can fit into the traditional 8-bit representation.
4. (obsolete) Far from truth, propriety, necessity, etc.
5. (obsolete) Located some distance away; distant, far.
6. (phonetics, dated) Made, as a vowel, with a less tense, and more open and relaxed, condition of the organs in the mouth.
7. (sports) Operating at the side of the playing area.
8. Having a large physical extent from side to side.
9. Large in scope.
10. On one side or the other of the mark; too far sideways from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc.

adv

1. So as to leave or have a great space between the sides; so as to form a large opening.
2. away from or to one side of a given goal
3. completely
4. extensively

noun

1. (cricket) A ball that passes so far from the batsman that the umpire deems it unplayable; the arm signal used by an umpire to signal a wide; the extra run added to the batting side's score

noun

1. Archaic form of weir.

noun

1. (Scotland) Synonym of woman.
2. A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
3. The female of a pair of mated animals.

verb

1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) to marry (a woman)

noun

1. plural of wig

adj

1. (electrical engineering) Of unregulated and varying frequency.
2. (mathematics, of a knot) Not capable of being represented as a finite closed polygonal chain.
3. (nautical, of a vessel) Hard to steer.
4. (slang) Amazing, awesome, unbelievable.
5. Able to stand in for others, e.g. a card in games, or a text character in computer pattern matching.
6. Disheveled, tangled, or untidy.
7. Enthusiastic.
8. Exposed to the wind and sea; unsheltered.
9. From or relating to wild creatures.
10. Furious; very angry.
11. Of an audio recording: intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
12. Raucous, unruly, or licentious.
13. Unrestrained or uninhibited.
14. Untamed; not domesticated; specifically, in an unbroken line of undomesticated animals (as opposed to feral, referring to undomesticated animals whose ancestors were domesticated).
15. Very inaccurate; far off the mark.
16. Visibly and overtly anxious; frantic.

adv

1. (of an audio recording) Intended to be synchronized with film or video but recorded separately.
2. Inaccurately; not on target.

noun

1. (chiefly in the plural) A wilderness.
2. (often jokingly in reference to sense 2.) civilization at large as opposed to contrived or laboratory conditions.
3. Alternative form of weald
4. The undomesticated state of a wild animal.

verb

1. (intransitive, slang) (In the form wilding or wildin') To act in a strange or unexpected way.
2. (intransitive, slang) To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang.

noun

1. (usually in the plural) A trick or stratagem practiced for ensnaring or deception; a sly, insidious artifice

verb

1. (transitive) To entice or lure.
2. Misspelling of while (“to pass the time”).

noun

1. (zoology) Obsolete form of whelk.

noun

1. (archaic) Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.)
2. (archaic) That which is desired; one's wish.
3. (law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
4. Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent
5. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
6. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
7. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.

verb

1. (archaic) Implying will go.
2. (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
3. (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.
4. (auxiliary) To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in questions and negation.
5. (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).
6. (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
7. (now rare, intransitive) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).
8. (now uncommon or literary, transitive) To wish, desire (something).
9. (transitive) To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
10. (transitive) To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
11. (transitive, intransitive) To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.

noun

1. (phytopathology) Any of various plant diseases characterized by wilting.
2. The act of wilting or the state of being wilted.

verb

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of will
2. (intransitive) To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower).
3. (intransitive) To fatigue; to lose strength; to flag.
4. (transitive) To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower).
5. (transitive) To cause to fatigue; to exhaust.

adj

1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks.

noun

1. (derogatory, slang) Someone who lacks confidence or courage, is weak, ineffectual, irresolute and wishy-washy.
2. Alternative spelling of WIMP

verb

1. (intransitive) To behave submissively.
2. (transitive) To render wimpy.

noun

1. (boxing, slang) The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.
2. (countable, uncountable) Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.
3. (countable, uncountable) The ability to breathe easily.
4. (music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.
5. (uncountable, colloquial) Flatus.
6. A bird, the dotterel.
7. A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".
8. A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.
9. Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.
10. Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.
11. Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.
12. News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)
13. One of the five basic elements in Indian and Japanese models of the Classical elements.
14. The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.
15. Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.

verb

1. (intransitive) To travel in a way that is not straight.
2. (transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.
3. (transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc.
4. (transitive) To cause to move by exerting a winding force; to haul or hoist, as by a winch.
5. (transitive) To cover or surround with something coiled about.
6. (transitive) To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.
7. (transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.
8. (transitive) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.
9. (transitive) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.
10. (transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.
11. (transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.
12. (transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.
13. (transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.
14. (transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.
15. (transitive, Britain) To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed.
16. (transitive, Britain) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.
17. (transitive, nautical) To turn (a ship) around, end for end.

noun

1. (Britain dialect) Wind.
2. (countable) A serving of wine.
3. (uncountable) The color of red wine, a deep reddish purple.
4. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
5. An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting other substances, producing a similar ABV.

verb

1. (intransitive) To drink wine.
2. (transitive) To entertain with wine.

noun

1. (Britain) A panel of a car which encloses the wheel area, especially the front wheels.
2. (Britain) A unit of command consisting of two or more squadrons and itself being a sub-unit of a group or station.
3. (US) A larger formation of two or more groups, which in turn control two or more squadrons.
4. (aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.
5. (botany) Any membranaceous expansion, such as that along the sides of certain stems, or of a fruit of the kind called samara.
6. (botany) Either of the two side petals of a papilionaceous flower.
7. (in the plural) The insignia of a qualified pilot or aircrew member.
8. (nautical) A platform on either side of the bridge of a vessel, normally found in pairs.
9. (nautical) That part of the hold or orlop of a vessel which is nearest the sides. In a fleet, one of the extremities when the ships are drawn up in line, or when forming the two sides of a triangle.
10. (slang) Human arm.
11. (sports) A player occupying such a position, also called a winger
12. (sports) A position in several field games on either side of the field.
13. (theater) One of the unseen areas on the side of the stage in a theatre.
14. (typography, informal, rare) A háček.
15. A cosmetic effect where eyeliner curves outward and ends at a point.
16. A faction of a political movement. Usually implies a position apart from the mainstream center position.
17. A fin at the side of a ray or similar fish
18. A part of something that is lesser in size than the main body, such as an extension from the main building.
19. A portable shelter consisting of a fabric roof on a frame, like a tent without sides.
20. A protruding piece of material on a menstrual pad to hold it in place and prevent leakage.
21. A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
22. An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly
23. An ornament worn on the shoulder; a small epaulet or shoulder knot.
24. Anything that agitates the air as a wing does, or is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, such as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc.
25. Limb or instrument of flight; means of flight or of rapid motion.
26. On the enneagram, one of the two adjacent types to an enneatype that forms an individual's subtype of his or her enneatype.
27. One of the broad, thin, anterior lobes of the foot of a pteropod, used as an organ in swimming.
28. One of the large pectoral fins of a flying fish.
29. Passage by flying; flight.

verb

1. (intransitive) To fly.
2. (transitive) To act or speak extemporaneously; to improvise; to wing it.
3. (transitive) To furnish with wings.
4. (transitive) To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm.
5. (transitive) To throw.
6. (transitive) To transport with, or as if with, wings; to bear in flight, or speedily.
7. (transitive) To traverse by flying.
8. (transitive, of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to.

noun

1. (chiefly Britain) Synonym of periwinkle
2. (tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)
3. A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
4. A brief time; an instant.
5. A subtle allusion.
6. An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
7. The smallest possible amount.

verb

1. (intransitive) To close one's eyes quickly and involuntarily; to blink.
2. (intransitive) To close one's eyes.
3. (intransitive) To gleam fitfully or intermitently; to twinkle; to flicker.
4. (intransitive) Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To close one's eyes in sleep.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion, usually with an implication of conspiracy. (When transitive, the object may be the eye being winked, or the message being conveyed.)

noun

1. (derogatory) A chronic or heavy drinker of cheap wine or other alcohol; a drunk or drunkard.
2. (informal) A wine enthusiast; an oenophile.
3. (physics) A hypothetical particle that is the superpartner of the W boson.

noun

1. plural of win

verb

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

adj

1. Having the taste or qualities of wine.
2. Relating to the effects of drinking wine.

noun

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) A blow or swipe; the act of striking somebody or something.
2. (UK, slang, obsolete) A handkerchief.
3. (obsolete) A sarcastic remark; a reproof, a jibe.
4. (role-playing games, video games) An instance of all members of a party dying in a single campaign, event, or battle; a wipeout.
5. A kind of film transition where one shot replaces another by travelling from one side of the frame to another or with a special shape.
6. A lapwing, especially a northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus).
7. A soft piece of cloth or cloth-like material used for wiping.
8. The act of wiping something.

verb

1. (figurative) To remove an expression from one's face.
2. (intransitive, role-playing games, video games) To have all members of a party die in a single campaign, event, or battle; to be wiped out.
3. (obsolete) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out.
4. (transitive) To deperm (a ship).
5. (transitive) To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.)
6. (transitive) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out.
7. (transitive, computing) To erase.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To clean (the buttocks) after defecation.
9. (transitive, plumbing) To make (a joint, as between pieces of lead pipe), by surrounding the junction with a mass of solder, applied in a plastic condition by means of a rag with which the solder is shaped by rubbing.

noun

1. (Scotland) A knitting needle.
2. (archaic, thieves' slang) A pickpocket, especially one who targets women.
3. (billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
4. (by extension) An electric telegraph; a telegram.
5. (informal) A deadline or critical endpoint.
6. (informal) A telecommunication wire or cable.
7. (slang) A covert signal sent between people cheating in a card game.
8. (slang) A hidden listening device on the person of an undercover operative for the purposes of obtaining incriminating spoken evidence.
9. (sports) A finish line of a racetrack.
10. (uncountable) Metal formed into a thin, even thread, now usually by being drawn through a hole in a steel die.
11. (usually in the plural) Any of the system of wires used to operate the puppets in a puppet show; hence, the network of hidden influences controlling the action of a person or organization; strings.
12. A fence made of usually barbed wire.
13. A metal conductor that carries electricity.
14. A piece of such material; a thread or slender rod of metal, a cable.
15. The slender shaft of the plumage of certain birds.

verb

1. (figuratively, usually passive) To set or predetermine (someone's personality or behaviour, or an organization's culture) in a particular way.
2. (slang) To install eavesdropping equipment.
3. (slang) To make someone tense or psyched up. See also adjective wired.
4. (transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
5. To add (something) into a system (especially an electrical system) by means of wiring.
6. To add or connect (something) into a system as if with wires (for example, with nerves).
7. To connect, involve or embed (something) deeply or intimately into (something else, such as an organization or political scene), so that it is plugged in (to that thing) (“keeping up with current information about (the thing)”) or has insinuated itself into (the thing).
8. To equip with wires for use with electricity.
9. To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing.
10. To send a message or monetary funds to another person through a telecommunications system, formerly predominantly by telegraph.
11. To snare by means of a wire or wires.
12. To string on a wire.

adj

1. Thin, muscular and flexible.

adj

1. (colloquial) Aware, informed.
2. (colloquial, ironic, sarcastic) Disrespectful.
3. Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.

noun

1. (archaic) Way, manner, or method.

verb

1. (dialectal) To advise; induce.
2. (dialectal) To cause to turn.
3. (dialectal) To direct the course of, pilot.
4. (dialectal) To instruct.
5. (dialectal) To show the way, guide.
6. (ergative, slang) Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
7. To become wise.

noun

1. (Sussex) A water meadow.
2. A desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen.
3. An expression of such a desire, often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power.
4. The thing desired or longed for.

verb

1. (ditransitive) To bestow (a thought or gesture) towards (someone or something).
2. (intransitive, followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome), even if that outcome is unlikely to occur or cannot occur.
3. (intransitive, followed by to and an infinitive) To request or desire to do an activity.
4. (transitive) To desire; to want.
5. (transitive) To recommend; to seek confidence or favour on behalf of.
6. (transitive, now rare) To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive).
7. I wish I could go back in time and teach myself what I know now.

noun

1. (uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
2. A flock of snipe.
3. A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.
4. A whisk, or small broom.
5. A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.
6. An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.

verb

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To rumple.
2. (intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.
3. (transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.
4. (transitive) To emit in wisps.

verb

1. (archaic) To know; to understand.

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wit.
2. (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of.

noun

1. (obsolete outside Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
2. Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.

verb

1. (chiefly Scotland) To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.
2. (obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
3. To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.
4. To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect.

adv

1. (US) Along, together with others, in a group, etc.

noun

1. Alternative form of withe

prep

1. (obsolete) To denote the accomplishment of cause, means, instrument, etc; – sometimes equivalent to by.
2. (obsolete) Using as nourishment; more recently replaced by on.
3. Affected by (a certain emotion or condition).
4. Against.
5. Having, owning.
6. In addition to; as an accessory to.
7. In regard to.
8. In support of.
9. In the company of; alongside, close to; near to.
10. In the employment of.
11. Keeping up with; understanding; following along.
12. Prompted by (a certain emotion).
13. Used to add supplemental information, especially to indicate simultaneous happening, or immediate succession or consequence.
14. Using as an instrument; by means of.

noun

1. (plural only) Senses.
2. (plural only) sanity
3. plural of wit

verb

1. (transitive) To provide (someone) with a wife.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To marry (a woman).

verb

1. (obsolete) To wriggle.

noun

1. (archaic) That which is written; writing.
2. (law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
3. Authority, power to enforce compliance.

verb

1. (archaic) past participle of write
2. (archaic) past tense of write

Proper noun

1. World War II

adv

1. Obsolete spelling of iwis