HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (law) Legally qualified or competent.
2. (nautical) Capable of performing all the requisite duties; as an able seaman.
3. (obsolete) Easy to use.
4. (obsolete) Rich; well-to-do.
5. (obsolete) Suitable; competent.
6. (obsolete, dialectal) Having the physical strength; robust; healthy.
7. (obsolete, dialectal) Liable to.
8. Free from constraints preventing completion of task; permitted to; not prevented from.
9. Gifted with skill, intelligence, knowledge, or competence.
10. Having the necessary powers or the needed resources to accomplish a task.

noun

1. (military) The letter "A" in Navy Phonetic Alphabet.

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To give power to; to reinforce; to confirm.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To make capable; to enable.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To make ready.
5. (transitive, obsolete) To vouch for; to guarantee.

noun

1. An ironwood tree (Xylia xylocarpa); the hard wood of this tree

noun

1. plural of ala.

conj

1. (obsolete) Synonym of albeit

noun

1. Obsolete spelling of alb

noun

1. A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.
2. An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.

adv

1. On the lee side of a ship, to the leeward side (vs aweather)

noun

1. Alternative form of aleph

noun

1. plural of ale

noun

1. (obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.

adj

1. (rare) Resembling or characteristic of ale.

intj

1. Alternative spelling of ahlie

noun

1. Alternative form of almah

noun

1. (in the plural) The resins of the tree Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. Aquilaria agallocha), known for their fragrant aroma, produced after infection by the fungus Phialophora parasitica.
2. A plant of the genus Aloe.
3. A strong, bitter drink made from the juice of such plants, used as a purgative.

noun

1. (obsolete) enamel

verb

1. (obsolete) To enamel

noun

1. (figure skating) A jump that includes one (or more than one) complete turn and a half turn while in the air.
2. Misspelling of axle.

noun

1. (geometry, astronomy, archaic) An axis.
2. (obsolete) Shoulder.
3. A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.
4. The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

noun

1. A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos.
2. The fruit of the tree, also called the wood apple.

noun

1. (archaic) A beacon-fire.
2. (archaic) A funeral pyre.
3. (obsolete) A large fire, a conflagration or bonfire.
4. A block of compressed cannabis.
5. A bundle of compressed wool or hay, compacted for shipping and handling.
6. A measurement of hay equal to 10 flakes. Approximately 70-90 lbs (32-41 kg).
7. A measurement of paper equal to 10 reams.
8. A rounded bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation.
9. Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
10. Suffering, woe, torment.

verb

1. (Britain, nautical) To remove water from a boat with buckets etc.
2. (transitive) To wrap into a bale.

noun

1. (dialectal or obsolete) A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.

verb

1. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) To gather matter; swell; come to a head, as a pimple; fester; suppurate.

noun

1. The part of a tree that lies immediately under the bark; the alburnum or sapwood.

noun

1. (AUS) Any of a number of marine fish in the family Odacidae

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.

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. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called counts and viscounts.
2. (nobility) A British or Irish nobleman next in rank above a viscount and below a marquess; equivalent to a European count. A female using the style is termed a countess.

adj

1. (obsolete) Equal; impartial.

noun

1. Uncommon spelling of élan.

adj

1. (obsolete) Relating to time or duration.

noun

1. Abbreviation of evaluation.

verb

1. (programming, of software) To evaluate (or execute) source code held in a string during run time.

adj

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) (of persons) Comfortable; cosy; safe.
2. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) (of things) Cosy; clean; neat.
3. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Smooth; soft; downy; velvety.
4. (archaic) faithful, loyal

adv

1. In a feal manner.

noun

1. Alternative form of fail (“piece of turf cut from grassland”)

verb

1. (obsolete) To press on, advance.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To hide.

noun

1. (derogatory) A thing of no significance.
2. A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.

verb

1. (transitive) To remove fleas from (an animal).
2. Obsolete spelling of flay

noun

1. (archaic) A periodic payment, such as is made of a rent or annuity.
2. (literary, archaic) A light breeze.
3. (meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.
4. A shrub, also called sweet gale or bog myrtle (Myrica gale), that grows on moors and fens.
5. An outburst, especially of laughter.

verb

1. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To cry; groan; croak.
2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; charm; enchant.
3. (intransitive, of a bird, Scotland) To call.
4. (intransitive, of a person, now chiefly dialectal) To talk.
5. (nautical) To sail, or sail fast.
6. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To sing; utter with musical modulations.

verb

1. (obsolete or Scotland) to congeal

adj

1. (dated) Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.

noun

1. (archaic) Health, welfare.

verb

1. To drag or pull, especially forcibly.

noun

1. (obsolete, uncountable) health
2. (role-playing games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become better or healthy again.
2. (rare) Alternative form of hele (“conceal”).
3. (transitive) To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure.
4. (transitive, figurative) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt.

noun

1. plural of ileum (Compare ilia)

noun

1. (cooking) Broth containing kale as a chief ingredient.
2. (dated, slang) Money.
3. An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)
4. Any of several cabbage-like food plants that are kinds of Brassica oleracea.

noun

1. (countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly. ᵂᵖ
2. (slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
3. (uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. ᵂᵖ
4. A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.

verb

1. (ergative) To fasten (something) with laces.
2. (transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
3. (transitive) To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
4. (transitive) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
5. (transitive) To interweave items.
6. (transitive) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.

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. (dialectal) Play; sport; game; fun; glee.
2. (now chiefly dialectal) A small stream of running water; a channel for water; a drain.
3. (obsolete) A kind of fine, white linen.
4. (obsolete) A pit, or ditch.
5. (obsolete) An offering, sacrifice, gift.
6. A large amount of liquid; as, a wine lake.
7. A large, landlocked stretch of water or similar liquid.
8. In dyeing and painting, an often fugitive crimson or vermillion pigment derived from an organic colorant (cochineal or madder, for example) and an inorganic, generally metallic mordant.
9. In the composition of colors for use in products intended for human consumption, made by extending on a substratum of alumina, a salt prepared from one of the certified water-soluble straight colors.

verb

1. (chiefly dialectal) To leap, jump, exert oneself, play.
2. (obsolete) To present an offering.
3. To make lake-red.

adj

1. (by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
2. (slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.
3. (slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.
4. Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.
5. Unable to walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.

noun

1. (in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.
2. (prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.
3. A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.
4. Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.

noun

1. (card games) An empty space in the tableau, formed by the removal of an entire row of cards.
2. (computing) Any of the parallel slots in which values can be stored in a SIMD architecture.
3. (horse racing) The home stretch.
4. (used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.
5. (video games) In MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) games, a particular path on the map that may be traversed by enemy characters.
6. A course designated for ships or aircrafts.
7. A lengthwise division of roadway intended for a single line of vehicles.
8. A narrow passageway between fences, walls, hedges or trees.
9. A narrow road, as in the country.
10. A similar division of a racetrack to keep runners apart.
11. Any of a number of parallel tracks or passages.

noun

1. (obsolete) lore; learning
2. (obsolete) pasture; feed
3. Obsolete form of lair.

verb

1. (obsolete) To feed; to fatten

verb

1. (intransitive) To operate as a laser; to release coherent light due to stimulation.
2. (transitive) To use a laser beam on, as for cutting.
3. (transitive) To use a laser beam on, as for targeting or rangefinding.

adj

1. (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
2. (not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
3. (usually not comparable) Associated with the end of a period.
4. Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
5. Levied as a surcharge on a payment received after a deadline.
6. Near the end of a period of time.
7. Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
8. Not having had an expected menstrual period.
9. Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
10. Specifically, near the end of the day.

adv

1. After a deadline has passed, past a designated time.
2. Formerly, especially in the context of service in a military unit.
3. Not long ago; just now.

noun

1. (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place late in the day or at night.

noun

1. (archaic or dialectal) The remainder, rest; that which is left, remnant; others.
2. (dialectal) A crowd

verb

1. (intransitive) To run down or gutter, as a candle.
2. (intransitive, dialectal) To hang or flap down.
3. (transitive) To draw, as water; drink in.
4. (transitive) To give bountifully; lavish.
5. (transitive, intransitive, literary or poetic) To wash.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out.
7. To lick.

noun

1. (countable) An instance of lazing.
2. (uncountable) Laziness.
3. Acidic steam created when super-hot lava contacts salt water.

verb

1. To be lazy, waste time.
2. To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge.

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. (Internet slang, humorous, sometimes pejorative, plural leafs) A Canadian person.
2. (advertising, dated) Two pages.
3. (botany) A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into.
4. (computing, mathematics) In a tree, a node that has no descendants.
5. (in the plural) Tea leaves.
6. (plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.
7. A flat section used to extend the size of a table.
8. A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
9. A sheet of any substance beaten or rolled until very thin.
10. Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.
11. One of the teeth of a pinion, especially when small.
12. The layer of fat supporting the kidneys of a pig, leaf fat.
13. The usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants.

verb

1. (intransitive) To produce leaves; put forth foliage.
2. (transitive) To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves.

adj

1. (obsolete) Leaky.

noun

1. (computing) The gradual loss of a system resource caused by failure to deallocate previously reserved portions.
2. (mildly vulgar, slang, especially with the verb "take") An act of urination.
3. A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape.
4. A divulgation, or disclosure, of information previously held secret.
5. A loss of electricity through imperfect insulation, or the point where it occurs.
6. The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture.
7. The person through whom such divulgation, or disclosure, occurs.

verb

1. (intransitive) (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed.
2. (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To pass through when it would normally or preferably be blocked.
3. (slang, US) To bleed.
4. (slang, sometimes euphemistic) To urinate.
5. (transitive, figurative, by extension) To allow anything through that would normally or preferably be blocked.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.
7. (transitive, intransitive) To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously.

adj

1. (now chiefly Scotland) Loyal, honest.
2. (now only Scotland) True, genuine.

noun

1. (UK, dialectal) A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
2. A cord or strap for leading a dog.

verb

1. (intransitive, UK, dialectal) To gleam; shine; glow.

adj

1. (business) Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of "lean manufacturing".
2. (of a person or animal) Slim; not fleshy.
3. (of meat) Having little fat.
4. (printing, archaic) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
5. Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
6. Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.

noun

1. (countable, biology) An organism that is lean in stature.
2. (of an object taller than its width and depth) An inclination away from the vertical.
3. (slang, US) A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, especially popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.
4. (uncountable) Meat with no fat on it.

verb

1. (copulative) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc.
2. Followed by against, on, or upon: to rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.
3. To conceal.
4. To hang outwards.
5. To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
6. To press against.
7. To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.

adj

1. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.

noun

1. (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
2. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
3. (mining) A fault.
4. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
5. A group of leopards.
6. A salmon ladder.
7. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
8. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
9. Half a bushel.
10. The act of leaping or jumping.
11. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.

verb

1. (archaic) To copulate with (a human)
2. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
3. (intransitive) To jump.
4. (transitive) To cause to leap.
5. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.

noun

1. (now Scotland) Learning, lore; doctrine.
2. (now Scotland) Something learned; a lesson.

verb

1. (intransitive, archaic) To learn.
2. (transitive, archaic and Scotland) To teach.

noun

1. plural of lea

noun

1. An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.

noun

1. (physiology, rare) The secretion of the tarsal glands of the eye.

noun

1. plural of lev

adj

1. (figuratively) Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware.
2. (grammar, less common than 'masculine') Masculine; of the masculine grammatical gender.
3. (of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).
4. Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it.
5. Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.)

noun

1. A bacterium which has the F factor.
2. A human member of the masculine sex or gender.
3. A male connector, pipe fitting, etc.
4. A plant of the masculine sex.
5. An animal of the sex that has testes.

noun

1. (UK dialectal) A speck or spot.
2. (countable) Food served or eaten as a repast.
3. (countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).
4. (obsolete) A time or an occasion.
5. (uncountable, informal) A break taken by a police officer in order to eat.
6. A part; a fragment; a portion.
7. The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To yield or be plentiful in meal.
2. (transitive) To defile or taint.

noun

1. A Hindu religious festival.
2. A South Asian fair.

noun

1. (obsolete) An alehouse.
2. (obsolete) ale

verb

1. (intransitive) To be tempered by heat.
2. (transitive) To temper by heat.

adj

1. (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
2. Feeble, faint.
3. Light in color.

noun

1. (archaic) Fence made from wooden stake; palisade.
2. (archaic) The jurisdiction (territorial or otherwise) of an authority.
3. (by extension) Limits, bounds (especially before of).
4. (heraldry) A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
5. (historical) A portion of Russia in which Jews were permitted to live.
6. (historical) The parts of Ireland under English jurisdiction.
7. (historical) The territory around Calais under English control (from the 14th to 16th centuries).
8. (obsolete) Paleness; pallor.
9. A cheese scoop.
10. A wooden stake; a picket.
11. The bounds of morality, good behaviour or judgment in civilized company, in the phrase beyond the pale.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become insignificant.
2. (intransitive) To turn pale; to lose colour.
3. (transitive) To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
4. To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.

noun

1. (collective) A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
2. A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
3. A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin.
4. The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.

verb

1. (intransitive) To resound; to echo.
2. (intransitive) To sound with a peal or peals.
3. (obsolete) To appeal.
4. (transitive) To assail with noise.
5. (transitive) To utter or sound loudly.

noun

1. (law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
2. (law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
3. (law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
4. (law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
5. An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.
6. An excuse; an apology.
7. That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.

verb

1. (chiefly England regional, Scotland) To plead; to argue.

noun

1. (medicine, now chiefly in plural) An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.

adj

1. (economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power (contrast nominal).
2. (economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
3. (law) Relating to immovable tangible property.
4. (mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
5. (slang) Signifying meritorious qualities or actions especially as regard the enjoyment of life, prowess at sports, or success wooing potential partners.
6. Absolute, complete, utter.
7. Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
8. Genuine, not artificial, counterfeit, or fake.
9. Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
10. That has objective, physical existence.
11. True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.

adv

1. (US, colloquial) Really, very.

noun

1. (grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
2. (mathematics) A real number.
3. (obsolete) A realist.
4. A coin worth one real.
5. A commodity; see realty.
6. A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: R$.
7. A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942.
8. Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.

noun

1. (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices.
2. (obsolete) A hall.
3. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.
4. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

noun

1. (figurative) Confirmation or approval, or an indication of this.
2. (heraldry) A bearing representing a creature something like a walrus.
3. A chakra.
4. A design or insignia usually associated with an organization or an official role.
5. A pinniped (Pinnipedia), particularly an earless seal (true seal) or eared seal.
6. A stamp used to impress a design on a soft substance such as wax.
7. A tight closure, secure against leakage.
8. An impression of such stamp on wax, paper or other material used for sealing.
9. Anything that secures or authenticates.
10. Something designed to prevent liquids or gases from leaking through a joint.
11. Something which will be visibly damaged if a covering or container is opened, and which may or may not bear an official design.

verb

1. (Christianity) To form a sacred commitment.
2. (Mormonism) To confirm or set apart as a second or additional wife.
3. (cooking, transitive) To fry (meat) at a high temperature to retain the juices.
4. (dialectal) To tie up animals (especially cattle) in their stalls.
5. (intransitive) To hunt seals.
6. (transitive) To close securely to prevent leakage.
7. (transitive) To fasten (something) so that it cannot be opened without visible damage.
8. (transitive) To guarantee.
9. (transitive) To place a seal on (a document).
10. (transitive) To place in a sealed container.
11. (transitive) To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something).
12. (transitive, chess) To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.
13. To close by means of a seal.
14. To fix, as a piece of iron in a wall, with cement or plaster, etc.
15. To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality.

noun

1. plural of selo

noun

1. (Hong Kong) leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms
2. Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver.
3. Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.

noun

1. (law, obsolete) A count; declaration.
2. (obsolete) A speech; a statement; talk; conversation; discourse.
3. (obsolete) Account; estimation; regard; heed.
4. (obsolete) Number; tally; quota.
5. (obsolete) Speech; language.
6. (rare or archaic) A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
7. (rare or archaic) A report of any matter; a relation; a version.
8. (slang) The fraudulent opportunity presented by a confidence man to the mark or victim.
9. A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration.
10. A rehearsal of what has occurred; narrative; discourse; statement; history; story.
11. Alternative form of tael
12. An account of an asserted fact or circumstance; a rumour; a report, especially an idle or malicious story; a piece of gossip or slander; a lie.

verb

1. (dialectal or obsolete) To speak; discourse; tell tales.
2. (dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To reckon; consider (someone) to have something.

adj

1. Having a bluish-green colour

noun

1. (countable and uncountable) A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.
2. (countable) Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.
3. (countable, Australia, politics, chiefly attributive) A teal independent, a politician who espouses environmentally and socially progressive but economically conservative ideas, especially in the context of a group of independent candidates who ran in the 2022 federal election.

noun

1. (anatomy) A thin, web-like structure or membrane.

intj

1. (usually seen in obituaries) Farewell.

noun

1. (chiefly poetic) A valley.

noun

1. (slang, vulgar) The female genitalia.
2. The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

verb

1. To raise a calf for meat production.

noun

1. plural of velum

noun

1. (Scotland, Northern England) Something selected as being the best, preference; choice.
2. (nautical) A horizontal ridge or ledge on the outside planking of a wooden ship. (See gunwale, chainwale)
3. A horizontal timber used for supporting or retaining earth.
4. A raised rib in knit goods or fabric, especially corduroy.
5. A ridge on the outside of a horse collar.
6. A ridge or low barrier.
7. A ridge or streak produced on skin by a cane or whip.
8. A timber bolted to a row of piles to secure them together and in position.
9. The texture of a piece of fabric.

verb

1. (Scotland, Northern England) To choose, select.
2. To beat a person, especially as punishment or out of anger.
3. To give a surface a texture of wales or welts.
4. To strike the skin in such a way as to produce a wale or welt.

noun

1. (by extension) Boon, benefit.
2. (literary) Welfare, prosperity.
3. (obsolete) Wealth, riches.
4. A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.
5. Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).

verb

1. To mark with stripes; to wale.