HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. Alternative form of allod

adj

1. (archaic, Northern England, Liverpudlian, Scotland, Ireland) old

adj

1. (by extension) Denuded of any covering.
2. (of a statement or account) Unembellished.
3. (of a statement) Without evidence or support being provided.
4. (of animals) Having areas (of fur or plumage) that are coloured white, especially on the head.
5. (specifically) Having no hair on the head, or having a large area of bare scalp on top of the head although hair may still grow on the sides and back of the head.
6. Having no hair, fur or feathers.
7. Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

noun

1. (Appalachia) A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become bald.

noun

1. (Australia, wholesale, food trade) A single sheet for use in a display book, illustrating a particular product available from a wholesaler.
2. (Scotland) A fragment or lump.
3. (Scotland) A portfolio; a blotting-book or blotting-pad.

noun

1. (in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of bleed

adj

1. (Ireland) Naughty; insolent; badly-behaved.
2. (Philippines) Pornographic; depicting nudity.
3. (typography, of typefaces) Having thicker strokes than the ordinary form of the typeface.
4. Courageous, daring.
5. Full-bodied.
6. Presumptuous, forward or impudent.
7. Steep or abrupt.
8. Visually striking; conspicuous.

noun

1. (obsolete) A dwelling; habitation; building.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To become bold or brave.
2. (transitive) To make (a font or some text) bold.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To make bold or daring.

adj

1. (figurative) Adorned, ornamented.
2. (of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.
3. (of an object, often in compounds) Covered, enveloped in, or surrounded by a cladding, or a specified material or substance.

verb

1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of clothe
2. (archaic, literary or obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.
3. (figurative, past tense clad) To imbue (with a specified quality); to envelop or surround.
4. (past tense clad or cladded) To cover with a cladding or another material (for example, insulation).

noun

1. A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
2. A stupid person; a dolt.
3. Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
4. The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.

verb

1. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
2. (transitive, Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

adj

1. (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
2. (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
3. (informal) Not radioactive.
4. (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
5. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
6. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
7. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
8. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
9. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
10. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
11. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
12. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
13. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
14. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
15. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
16. Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
17. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
18. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
19. Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
20. Without electrical power being supplied.

adv

1. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
2. At a low temperature.
3. Without preparation.

noun

1. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
2. (slang) rheum, sleepy dust
3. (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
4. A condition of low temperature.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of dal

noun

1. (archaic) A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
2. (chiefly Britain) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.
3. The sunken or grooved portion of the surface of a vinyl record.

noun

1. A timber tree (genus Myristica) of Guiana, whose wood is used for staves etc.

noun

1. (now rare) A hollow or depression.
2. A pin; brooch; clasp.

noun

1. A tile with an incised surface.

noun

1. plural of dal

adj

1. Made of deal.

noun

1. (archaic in general sense) An act of dealing or sharing out.
2. (card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.
3. (countable) A plank of softwood (fir or pine board).
4. (countable, archaic) A wooden board or plank, usually between 12 or 14 feet in length, traded as a commodity in shipbuilding.
5. (in particular) A transaction offered which is financially beneficial; a bargain.
6. (informal) A situation, occasion, or event.
7. (informal) A thing, an unspecified or unidentified object.
8. (obsolete) A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
9. (often followed by of) An indefinite quantity or amount; a lot (now usually qualified by great or good).
10. (uncountable) Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
11. A particular instance of trading (buying or selling; exchanging; bartering); a transaction.
12. An agreement between parties; an arrangement.

verb

1. (baseball) To pitch.
2. (intransitive) To be concerned with.
3. (intransitive) To conduct oneself, to behave.
4. (intransitive) To handle, to manage, to cope.
5. (intransitive) To have dealings or business.
6. (intransitive) To trade professionally (followed by in).
7. (obsolete, intransitive) To take action; to act.
8. (transitive) To administer or give out, as in small portions.
9. (transitive) To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
10. (transitive) To sell, especially to sell illicit drugs.
11. (transitive) deliver damage, a blow, strike or cut. To inflict.
12. (transitive, intransitive) To distribute cards to the players in a game.

noun

1. (printing) a sign signifying deletion

verb

1. (printing, usually imperative) to delete

noun

1. (heraldry) A charge representing a square sod.
2. A mine, quarry, pit dug; ditch.
3. Alternative form of delft (“style of earthenware”)

noun

1. (informal) A shop that sells cooked or prepared food ready for serving.
2. (informal) Food sold at a delicatessen.

noun

1. (obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
2. A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.

noun

1. plural of del

noun

1. (UK, Australia, slang) A person's face.
2. A clock face.
3. A disk with finger holes on a telephone; used to select the number to be called.
4. A graduated, circular scale over which a needle moves to show a measurement (such as speed).
5. A miner's compass.
6. A panel on a radio etc showing wavelengths or channels; a knob that is turned to change the wavelength etc.
7. A sundial.

verb

1. (intransitive) To use a dial or a telephone.
2. (transitive) To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial.
3. (transitive) To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone.

adj

1. (biology) Having a 24-hour period regardless of day or night.

noun

1. (Australia, informal) A fool.
2. A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring.
3. Anethum graveolens (the type species of the genus Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.

verb

1. To cook or flavor with dill
2. To still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.

noun

1. (organic chemistry) any organic compound having two hydroxy functional groups

noun

1. (Britain, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
2. (archaic) A Sorrow or grief; dolour.
3. (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
4. (law, Scotland) Dolus.
5. A boundary; a landmark.
6. Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
7. Money or other goods given as charity.

verb

1. To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource.

noun

1. plural of dolus

noun

1. (US, Australia) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart.
2. (US, dated, now possibly offensive) A good-natured, cooperative or helpful girl.
3. (US, obsolete) A dollar.
4. (rail transport) A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.
5. (slang, sometimes offensive) An attractive young woman.
6. A kind of barrier used in horse racing.
7. A toy in the form of a human.
8. Obsolete form of dal.
9. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.

noun

1. plural of dol

noun

1. (derogatory) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.

verb

1. (obsolete) To behave foolishly.

noun

1. Alternative form of dowle

adj

1. (category theory) Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
2. (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical number in certain languages that refers to two of something, such as a pair of shoes.
3. (linear algebra) Being the space of all linear functionals of (some other space).
4. (mathematics, physics) Exhibiting duality.
5. Characterized by having two (usually equivalent) components.
6. Pertaining to two, pertaining to a pair of.

noun

1. (geometry) Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.
2. (grammar) The dual number.
3. (mathematics) Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.
4. Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.

verb

1. (transitive) To convert from single to dual; specifically, to convert a single-carriageway road to a dual carriageway.

noun

1. (by extension) Any battle or struggle between two contending persons, forces, groups, or ideas.
2. Arranged, regular combat between two private persons, often over a matter of honor.
3. Historically, the wager of battle (judicial combat).

verb

1. To engage in a battle.

adj

1. (of a noise or sound) Not clear, muffled.
2. (of pain etc) Not intense; felt indistinctly or only slightly.
3. Boring; not exciting or interesting.
4. Cloudy, overcast.
5. Heavy; lifeless; inert.
6. Insensible; unfeeling.
7. Lacking the ability to cut easily; not sharp.
8. Not bright or intelligent; stupid; having slow understanding.
9. Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.
10. Sluggish, listless.

verb

1. (intransitive) To lose a sharp edge; to become dull.
2. (transitive) To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp.
3. (transitive) To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy.
4. To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.

adv

1. In a due, fit, or becoming manner; as it ought to be; properly.
2. Regularly; at the proper time.

noun

1. (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) Age.

verb

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flee

noun

1. (Christianity) A church congregation, a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church; the Christian church as a whole, the flock of Christ.
2. (by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
3. (collective) A group of sheep or goats.
4. (computing theory) In functional programming, any of a family of higher-order functions that process a data structure recursively to build up a value.
5. (dialectal, poetic or obsolete) The Earth; earth; land, country.
6. (figuratively) Home, family.
7. (geology) The bending or curving of one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, as a result of plastic (i.e. permanent) deformation.
8. (newspapers) The division between the top and bottom halves of a broadsheet: headlines above the fold will be readable in a newsstand display; usually the fold.
9. (programming) A section of source code that can be collapsed out of view in an editor to aid readability.
10. A bend or crease.
11. A group of people with shared ideas or goals or who live or work together.
12. A pen or enclosure for sheep or other domestic animals.
13. An act of folding.
14. Any correct move in origami.
15. That which is folded together, or which enfolds or envelops; embrace.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become folded; to form folds.
2. (intransitive) To give way on a point or in an argument.
3. (intransitive, business) Of a company, to cease to trade.
4. (intransitive, by extension) To withdraw or quit in general.
5. (intransitive, informal) To fall over; to be crushed.
6. (intransitive, poker) To withdraw from betting.
7. (transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself.
8. (transitive) To enclose within folded arms (see also enfold).
9. (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.
10. (transitive, cooking) To stir gently, with a folding action.
11. To confine animals in a fold.
12. To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
13. To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands.

noun

1. (chiefly archaic or historical) Money.
2. (historical) In particular, (money paid as) a medieval form of land tax.
3. A female animal, such as a ewe or cow, that is not pregnant.

verb

1. (historical) To tax geld.
2. (transitive) To castrate a male (usually an animal).
3. (transitive, figurative) To deprive of anything essential; to weaken.

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of guild

verb

1. (transitive) To adorn.
2. (transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.
3. (transitive) To give a bright or pleasing aspect to.
4. (transitive) To make appear drunk.
5. (transitive, cooking) To decorate with a golden surface appearance.

adj

1. (obsolete) Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
2. Pleased, happy, gratified.

noun

1. (informal) A gladiolus (plant).

verb

1. (archaic, transitive) To make glad.

adj

1. (of commercial services) Premium, superior.
2. (programming, of software) In a finished state, ready for manufacturing.
3. Having the colour of gold.
4. Made of gold.
5. Of a musical recording: having sold 500,000 copies.

adv

1. of or referring to a gold version of something

noun

1. (countable or uncountable) A coin or coinage made of this material, or supposedly so.
2. (countable) A gold medal.
3. (countable) The bullseye of an archery target.
4. (figuratively) Anything or anyone that is very valuable.
5. (slang, in the plural) A grill (jewellery worn on front teeth) made of gold.
6. (uncountable) A deep yellow colour, resembling the metal gold.
7. (uncountable) A heavy yellow elemental metal of great value, with atomic number 79 and symbol Au.

symbol

1. ☉ (alchemy)

verb

1. To appear or cause to appear golden.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of hold

adj

1. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.

noun

1. (aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
2. (baseball) A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
3. (exercise) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
4. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
5. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
6. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
7. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
8. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
9. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
10. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
11. A grasp or grip.
12. A place where animals are held for safety
13. An act or instance of holding.
14. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
15. As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
16. Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
17. Power over someone or something.
18. Something reserved or kept.
19. The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
20. The ability to persist.
21. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
22. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
23. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.

verb

1. (archaic) To derive right or title.
2. (archaic) To restrain oneself; to refrain; to hold back.
3. (imperative) In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
4. (intransitive) Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
5. (intransitive, chiefly imperative) Not to move; to halt; to stop.
6. (intransitive, copulative) To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
7. (intransitive, copulative) To keep oneself in a particular state.
8. (slang, intransitive) To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
9. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
10. (transitive) To bear, carry, or manage.
11. (transitive) To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
12. (transitive) To cause to wait or delay.
13. (transitive) To contain or store.
14. (transitive) To detain.
15. (transitive) To have and keep possession of something.
16. (transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
17. (transitive) To maintain, to consider, to opine.
18. (transitive) To reserve.
19. To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
20. To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
21. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
22. To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
23. To take place, to occur.

adj

1. (obsolete) Empty, vacant.
2. (obsolete) Light-headed; foolish.
3. Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful.
4. Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity.
5. Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular.
6. Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly.

noun

1. (gaming) An idle animation.
2. (gaming) An idle game.
3. (mechanical engineering) The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine.
4. The state of idling, of being idle.

verb

1. (intransitive) Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over.
2. (intransitive) To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business.
3. (transitive) To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume.

adv

1. In an idle manner. [from 14th c.]
2. Without specific purpose, intent or effort. [from 9th c.]

noun

1. (Asia, originally Japan) Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans.
2. (obsolete) An eidolon or phantom; something misleading or elusive.
3. A cultural icon, or especially popular person.
4. A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of idyll

adj

1. (obsolete) Having a kell or covering; webbed.

noun

1. (Scotland) A load.
2. (Scotland) Water pumped into and out of mills, especially woolen mills.
3. (UK, dialect, obsolete outside of place names) The mouth of a river.
4. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A passage for water; a ditch or drain.

verb

1. (nautical) To admit water by leakage.
2. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
3. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
4. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
5. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.

noun

1. (Northern England, Tyneside, Ireland) A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.
2. plural of lad

noun

1. (UK, slang) A five-pound note. (Rhyming slang, Lady Godiva for fiver.)
2. (Wicca) Alternative form of Lady.
3. (archaic) gastric mill, the triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster, consisting of calcareous plates; so called from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure.
4. (attributive, with a professional title) Who is a woman.
5. (chess, slang, rare) A queen.
6. (historical) The mistress of a household.
7. (in the plural) A polite reference or form of address to women.
8. (informal) A wife or girlfriend; a sweetheart.
9. (ladies' or ladies) Toilets intended for use by women.
10. (polite or used by children) A woman: an adult female human.
11. (slang) A queen (the playing card).
12. (slang) Used to address a female.
13. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A woman’s breast.
14. A title for someone married to a lord or gentleman.
15. A title that can be used instead of the formal terms of marchioness, countess, viscountess, or baroness.
16. A woman of breeding or higher class, a woman of authority.
17. A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.
18. The feminine of lord.

verb

1. To address as “lady”.

adj

1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lay

noun

1. (Ireland, colloquial) A shock or fright.
2. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.
3. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
4. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
5. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
6. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
7. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
8. (often in combination) realm, domain.
9. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
10. A country or region.
11. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
12. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
13. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
14. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.
15. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
16. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
17. lant; urine

verb

1. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
2. (intransitive) (of a punch) To connect
3. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
4. (intransitive) To come into rest.
5. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.
6. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.
7. (slang, transitive) To succeed in having sexual relations with; to score
8. (transitive) (of a blow) To deliver.
9. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
10. (transitive) To bring to land.
11. (transitive, informal) To capture or arrest.

Noun

1. Link Access Procedures, D channel; specified in ITU-T Q.920 and ITU-T Q.921. The second layer protocol on the ISDN protocol stack.

noun

1. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
2. (slang) Excess fat on a person or animal.
3. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.

verb

1. (cooking) To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
3. To fatten; to enrich.
4. To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
5. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.
6. To smear with fat or lard.

noun

1. (in the plural, also Lauds) A prayer service following matins.
2. Hymn of praise.
3. Praise or glorification.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To praise; to glorify.

adj

1. (not comparable) Foremost.
2. Main, principal, primary, first, chief, foremost.

noun

1. (UK, countable) An insulated metallic wire for electrical devices and equipment.
2. (acting) The actor who plays the main role; lead actor.
3. (acting) The main role in a play or film; the lead role.
4. (baseball) The situation where a runner steps away from a base while waiting for the pitch to be thrown.
5. (business) The person in charge of a project or a work shift etc.
6. (civil engineering) The distance of haul, as from a cutting to an embankment.
7. (countable) A channel of open water in an ice field.
8. (countable) A thin cylinder of graphite used in pencils.
9. (countable) Precedence; advance position; also, the measure of precedence; the state of being ahead in a race; the highest score in a game in an incomplete game.
10. (countable) The act of leading or conducting; guidance; direction, course
11. (countable, mining) A lode.
12. (countable, nautical) A plummet or mass of lead attached to a line, used in sounding depth at sea or (dated) to estimate velocity in knots.
13. (curling) The player who throws the first two rocks for a team.
14. (electrical) The advance of the current phase in an alternating circuit beyond that of the electromotive force producing it.
15. (electrical) The angle between the line joining the brushes of a continuous-current dynamo and the diameter symmetrical between the poles.
16. (engineering) The axial distance a screw thread travels in one revolution. It is equal to the pitch times the number of starts.
17. (engineering) The excess above a right angle in the angle between two consecutive cranks, as of a compound engine, on the same shaft.
18. (horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.
19. (marketing) Potential opportunity for a sale or transaction, a potential customer.
20. (music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.
21. (music) In a barbershop quartet, the person who sings the melody, usually the second tenor
22. (music) The announcement by one voice part of a theme to be repeated by the other parts.
23. (nautical) The course of a rope from end to end.
24. (newspapers) A teaser; a lead-in; the start of a newspaper column, telling who, what, when, where, why and how. (Sometimes spelled as lede for this usage to avoid ambiguity.)
25. (plural leads) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
26. (slang) bullets; ammunition.
27. (uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).
28. (uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played
29. (uncountable, typography) Vertical space in advance of a row or between rows of text. Also known as leading.
30. A rope, leather strap, or similar device with which to lead an animal; a leash
31. A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing.
32. An important news story that appears on the front page of a newspaper or at the beginning of a news broadcast
33. Hypothesis that has not been pursued
34. In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.
35. Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
36. Information obtained by a news reporter about an issue or subject that allows him or her to discover more details.
37. Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs.

verb

1. (baseball) To step off base and move towards the next base.
2. (figuratively): To direct; to counsel; to instruct
3. (intransitive) To be ahead of others, e.g., in a race.
4. (intransitive) To be more advanced in technology or business than others.
5. (intransitive) To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.
6. (intransitive) To have the highest interim score in a game.
7. (intransitive) To lead off or out, to go first; to begin.
8. (intransitive) To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.
9. (shooting) To aim in front of a moving target, in order that the shot may hit the target as it passes.
10. (transitive) To cover, fill, or affect with lead.
11. (transitive) To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure
12. (transitive) To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among.
13. (transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).
14. (transitive, card games, dominoes) To begin a game, round, or trick, with
15. (transitive, climbing) Lead climb.
16. (transitive, printing, historical) To place leads between the lines of.
17. Misspelling of led.
18. To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.
19. To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.
20. To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).
21. To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection.
22. To produce (with to).

noun

1. (chiefly US, journalism) The introductory paragraph or paragraphs of a newspaper, or a news or other type of article; the lead or lead-in.
2. (obsolete) A man; a person.

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”)

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
4. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
5. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.
6. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
7. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of lede (“a man; a person”)

verb

1. Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).

noun

1. (UK dialectal, of a person or animal) The loins; flank; buttocks.
2. (anatomy, UK dialectal) The lumbar region; loin.
3. (chiefly dialectal, with "the") Loan (permission to borrow (something)).

verb

1. (intransitive) To make a loan.
2. (proscribed) To borrow.
3. (reflexive) To be suitable or applicable, to fit.
4. (transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.
5. To afford; to grant or furnish in general.

noun

1. Alternative form of lede (“person, people”)

noun

1. (historical) A vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages.

adj

1. (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
2. (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
3. (obsolete) Uneducated.
4. (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
5. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.

noun

1. A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.

verb

1. (slang) Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”)
2. To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.

noun

1. (Britain) An outdoor swimming pool.
2. (Britain) Part of the sea by a beach sectioned off for swimming and other aquatic activities.

noun

1. plural of lid

verb

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

noun

1. (music) An art song, usually sung solo in German and accompanied on the piano.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of lie (in the sense "to give false information intentionally")

noun

1. (obsolete) the lime tree, or linden tree

noun

1. (Internet slang, obsolete) A person that spends all day online. The term was originally used in the late 1980s to describe users on free Q-Link (later America Online) accounts who never signed off the system at great expense to the company.
2. (Philippines) prepaid phone credit
3. (computing) The process of loading something, i.e. transferring it into memory or over a network, etc.
4. (electrical engineering) Any component that draws current or power from an electrical circuit.
5. (electrical engineering) The electrical current or power delivered by a device.
6. (engineering) A resistive force encountered by a prime mover when performing work.
7. (engineering) The force exerted on a structural component such as a beam, girder, cable etc.
8. (euphemistic) Nonsense; rubbish.
9. (figuratively) A worry or concern to be endured, especially in the phrase a load off one's mind.
10. (in combination) Used to form nouns that indicate a large quantity, often corresponding to the capacity of a vehicle
11. (obsolete) Weight or violence of blows.
12. (often in the plural, colloquial) A large number or amount.
13. (vulgar, slang) The contents (e.g. semen) of an ejaculation.
14. A burden; a weight to be carried.
15. A certain number of articles or quantity of material that can be transported or processed at one time.
16. A quantity of washing put into a washing machine for a wash cycle.
17. A unit of measure for various quantities.
18. A very small explosive inserted as a gag into a cigarette or cigar.
19. The charge of powder for a firearm.
20. The viral load
21. The volume of work required to be performed.

verb

1. (Philippines) to top up or purchase phone credits
2. (intransitive) To be placed into storage or conveyance.
3. (intransitive) To be put into use in an apparatus.
4. (intransitive) To put a load on something.
5. (intransitive) To receive a load.
6. (intransitive, computing) To transfer from a storage medium into computer memory.
7. (transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
8. (transitive) To encumber with something negative, to place as an encumbrance.
9. (transitive) To fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition.
10. (transitive) To fill (an apparatus) with raw material.
11. (transitive) To insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc.
12. (transitive) To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage.
13. (transitive) To provide in abundance.
14. (transitive) To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage).
15. (transitive) To tamper with so as to produce a biased outcome.
16. (transitive) To weight (a cane, whip, etc.) with lead or similar.
17. (transitive, archaic) To magnetize.
18. (transitive, archaic, slang) To adulterate or drug.
19. (transitive, baseball) To put runners on first, second and third bases
20. (transitive, computing) To read (data or a program) from a storage medium into computer memory.

noun

1. (by extension) A rich source of supply.
2. (dialectal) A watercourse.
3. (mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
4. (obsolete) A way or path; a road.

noun

1. (Britain, Australia, via Cockney rhyming slang, obsolete) Sixpence.
2. (Britain, slang, obsolete) A hunchback.
3. (archaic) The male head of a household, a father or husband.
4. (archaic) The owner of a house, piece of land, or other possession
5. (astrology) The heavenly body considered to possess a dominant influence over an event, time, etc.
6. (historical) A feudal tenant holding his manor directly of the king
7. (obsolete) The master of the servants of a household; (historical) the master of a feudal manor
8. (obsolete, uncommon) A baron or lesser nobleman, as opposed to greater ones
9. A magnate of a trade or profession.
10. A peer of the realm, particularly a temporal one
11. One possessing similar mastery in figurative senses (esp. as lord of ~)
12. One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)

verb

1. (intransitive and transitive) Domineer or act like a lord.
2. (transitive) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.

adj

1. (of a person, event, etc.) Not subtle or reserved, brash.
2. (of a person, thing, event, etc.) Noisy.
3. (of a sound) Of great intensity.
4. (of clothing, decorations, etc.) Having unpleasantly and tastelessly contrasting colours or patterns; gaudy.
5. (of marijuana, slang) High-quality; premium; (by extension) having a strong or pungent odour indicating good quality.

adv

1. Loudly.

noun

1. (colloquial) A loud sound or part of a sound.
2. (slang, uncountable) High-quality marijuana.