HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. cord that is fastened around the kaffiyeh

noun

1. (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

noun

1. (motor racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (cf. marbles).
2. (railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
3. A glue or paste made from starch.
4. Low cloud, fog or smog.

verb

1. (obsolete) To encumber
2. To stick, like boots in mud

noun

1. (Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
2. (now dialectal) A light breeze.

noun

1. (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
2. A blockage.
3. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
2. (law) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
3. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
4. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
5. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

adj

1. (obsolete) Equal; impartial.

noun

1. (Britain, uncountable) The game of capture the flag.
2. (Internet slang, ACG) A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.
3. (UK, archaic, slang) An apron.
4. (aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.
5. (computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.
6. (computer science) In a command line interface, a command parameter requesting optional behavior or otherwise modifying the action of the command being invoked.
7. (geology) Any hard, evenly stratified sandstone, which splits into layers suitable for flagstones.
8. (geometry) A sequence of faces of a given polytope, one of each dimension up to that of the polytope (formally, though in practice not always explicitly, including the null face and the polytope itself), such that each face in the sequence is part of the next-higher dimension face.
9. (mathematics, linear algebra) A sequence of subspaces of a vector space, beginning with the null space and ending with the vector space itself, such that each member of the sequence (until the last) is a proper subspace of the next.
10. (music) A hook attached to the stem of a written note that assigns its rhythmic value
11. (nautical) A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship.
12. (nautical, often used attributively) A signal flag.
13. (obsolete except in dialects) A slice of turf; a sod.
14. (television) A dark piece of material that can be mounted on a stand to block or shape the light.
15. A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
16. A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
17. A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
18. A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
19. An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites).
20. Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
21. The bushy tail of a dog such as a setter.
22. The use of a flag, especially to indicate the start of a race or other event.

verb

1. (chess, intransitive) To lose on time, especially in a blitz game; when using a traditional analog chess clock, a flag would fall when time expired.
2. (chess, transitive) To defeat (an opponent) on time, especially in a blitz game.
3. (computing) To set a program variable to true.
4. (computing) To signal (an event).
5. (firearms) To point the muzzle of a firearm at a person or object one does not intend to fire on.
6. (intransitive) To weaken, become feeble.
7. (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc.
8. (often with up) To note, mark or point out for attention.
9. (sports) To penalize for an infraction.
10. (transitive) To pave with flagstones.
11. To convey (a message) by means of flag signals.
12. To decoy (game) by waving a flag, handkerchief, etc. to arouse the animal's curiosity.
13. To enervate; to exhaust the vigour or elasticity of.
14. To fail, such as a class or an exam.
15. To furnish or deck out with flags.
16. To hang loose without stiffness; to bend down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp.
17. To let droop; to suffer to fall, or let fall, into feebleness.
18. To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something.

noun

1. (Australia, informal, derogatory) A contemptible, often arrogant person; a wanker.
2. (Internet slang) A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service.

verb

1. (theater) To beat away charcoal dust etc. using a flogger.
2. (transitive) To use something to extreme; to abuse.
3. (transitive) To whip or scourge as punishment.
4. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To defeat easily or convincingly.
5. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand) To steal something.
6. (transitive, Australia, agriculture) To overexploit (land), as by overgrazing, overstocking, etc.
7. (transitive, UK, slang) To sell.

adj

1. Celebratory; festive.

noun

1. (countable) A showy and festive party.
2. (historical) A member of an androgynous class of priests of the Sumerian goddess Inanna.
3. (uncountable) Pomp, show, or festivity.
4. A competition

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.

noun

1. (anatomy) The gall bladder.
2. (anatomy, obsolete, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.
3. (countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.
4. (countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
5. (countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.
6. (countable, phytopathology) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.
7. (medicine, obsolete, countable) A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.
8. (uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.
9. (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.
10. (uncountable, obsolete) Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

verb

1. (transitive) To bother or trouble.
2. To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
3. To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.
4. To exasperate.
5. To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.
6. To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.
7. To scoff; to jeer.

verb

1. (archaic) to gape; yawn.

noun

1. plural of gal

noun

1. Alternative form of gault

noun

1. (Commonwealth) Dated spelling of jail.

Proper noun

1. A Roman-era region roughly corresponding to modern France and Belgium

Noun

1. A person from Gaul.

verb

1. (obsolete or Scotland) to congeal

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. Alternative form of gill (a leech)
2. Pronunciation spelling of girl.

noun

1. plural of gel

verb

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

noun

1. (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
2. (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
3. (obsolete) Gilding; gilt.
4. (originally UK, especially thieves' cant and Polari, later Judaism and general slang) Money.
5. (rare) A lunatic.
6. A gelding.
7. Tribute; tax.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of geld

adj

1. (Singapore) mad; crazy; insane

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.

noun

1. (Britain) ravine
2. (Britain) rivulet
3. (animal anatomy) A breathing organ of fish and other aquatic animals.
4. (animal anatomy) The fleshy flap that hangs below the beak of a fowl; a wattle.
5. (archaic, Britain) A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
6. (figuratively) The flesh under or about the chin; a wattle.
7. (mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.
8. (obsolete) a promiscuous woman; harlot, wanton
9. (obsolete) a prostitute
10. (of a fish) A gill slit or gill cover.
11. (spinning) One of the combs of closely ranged steel pins which divide the ribbons of flax fiber or wool into fewer parallel filaments.
12. A drink measure for spirits and wine, approximately a quarter of a pint, but varying regionally.
13. a female ferret
14. a two-wheeled frame for transporting timber

verb

1. (intransitive) To be or become entangled in a gillnet.
2. (obsolete) To act as a prostitute.
3. (transitive) To catch (a fish) in a gillnet.
4. To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it.

noun

1. Fruit of the scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum)

adj

1. Golden coloured.

noun

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

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of gild

noun

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

verb

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

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. Glamorous.

noun

1. (music, fashion) Ellipsis of glam rock.; the fashion and culture associated with this genre.
2. Glamour.

verb

1. To make glamorous or more glamorous.

noun

1. (singing, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.
2. (uncountable) Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.
3. (uncountable) Music; minstrelsy; entertainment.

verb

1. To sing a glee (unaccompanied part song).

adj

1. (Scotland) smart; quick; brisk

noun

1. (now rare, Northern England) A look or glance.
2. Alternative form of cleg

verb

1. (Northern England) To glance.

noun

1. A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a dale; a depression between hills.

noun

1. Obsolete form of glue.

verb

1. (nonstandard) simple past tense of glow

noun

1. (soil science) A type of hydric soil, sticky, greenish-blue-grey in colour and low in oxygen.

verb

1. (Scotland) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
2. (soil science) To be converted into this kind of soil.

noun

1. The network of glial cells that supports nervous system tissue.

adj

1. (US) Snarky or unserious in a disrespectful way.
2. (dated) Smooth or slippery.
3. Artfully persuasive but insincere in nature; smooth-talking, honey-tongued, silver-tongued.
4. Having a ready flow of words but lacking thought or understanding; superficial; shallow.

noun

1. (historical) A mass of matted hair worn down over the eyes, formerly used in Ireland.

verb

1. (obsolete) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
2. (transitive) To make smooth or slippery.

noun

1. (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
2. (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse.
3. (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles.
4. (archaic, slang) An eye.
5. (archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).
6. (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea
7. (obsolete) brightness; splendour

verb

1. (dated, slang) To illuminate.
2. (dated, slang) To see; to observe.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.

noun

1. (biology) A millimeter-sized colour module found beyond the visual area V2 in the brain's parvocellular pathway.
2. (programming) A limited pattern matching technique using wildcards, less powerful than a regular expression.
3. A round, shapeless or amorphous lump, as of a semisolid substance.

verb

1. (programming) To carry out pattern matching using a glob.
2. To stick in globs or lumps.

noun

1. (medicine, colloquial) Short for glomerulus.

verb

1. (intransitive) Alternative form of glaum.
2. (intransitive, informal) To grab hold of, seize; catch, grab or latch onto.
3. (transitive, informal) To take, steal.

noun

1. (informal, countable) A gooey blob of some substance.
2. (informal, uncountable) Any gooey substance.

verb

1. (dialectal or archaic) To stare in amazement.
2. (transitive, archaic) To swallow greedily.
3. (transitive, informal) To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.

noun

1. The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face).
2. The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings.
3. The light given off by a glowing object.

verb

1. (Internet slang, alt-right) to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
2. (Internet slang, alt-right) to expose someone to the authorities.
3. (copulative) To radiate thermal heat.
4. (intransitive) To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
5. (intransitive, Internet slang) To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
6. (transitive) To make hot; to flush.
7. To display intense emotion.
8. To emit light as if heated.
9. To gaze especially passionately at something.
10. To shine brightly and steadily.

noun

1. (informal) The sound of underwater bubbles, or of water bubbling (often used repetitively).

verb

1. (informal) To make a sound like underwater bubbling; to glug.

noun

1. (figurative) Anything that binds two things or people together.
2. A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.

verb

1. (transitive) To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively.
2. (transitive) To join or attach something using glue.

intj

1. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured out of a jug, bottle, etc., or when such an amount is swallowed by a person.

noun

1. (informal) The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard.
2. The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle.

verb

1. (informal, transitive) To quickly swallow liquid.
2. (intransitive) To flow in noisy bursts.

adj

1. despondent; moody; sullen

noun

1. (obsolete) sullenness

verb

1. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

noun

1. (Britain, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
2. (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
3. (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
4. (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
5. A block used for a fulcrum.
6. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
7. An excess, too much.
8. Something that fills up an opening.
9. That which is swallowed.
10. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
2. (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.

noun

1. A valley in a mountain area, especially one with a stream in the bottom

noun

1. (sports) In many sports, an area into which the players attempt to put an object.
2. (sports) The act of placing the object into the goal.
3. A noun or noun phrase that receives the action of a verb. The subject of a passive verb or the direct object of an active verb. Also called a patient, target, or undergoer.
4. A point scored in a game as a result of placing the object into the goal.
5. A result that one is attempting to achieve.

verb

1. (Gaelic football, Australian rules football) To score a goal.

noun

1. (historical, biblical) A person who, as the nearest relative of another, has certain obligations toward them, such as having to free them from slavery, to repurchase their property if sold through poverty, and to avenge their murder.

noun

1. Alternative form of golah

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.

noun

1. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Golf from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
2. (sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.

verb

1. (computing) To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf)
2. (intransitive) To play the game of golf.

noun

1. A traditional dance and masquerade of the Baoulé people of the Ivory Coast.

name

1. (dialect, euphemistic) God

noun

1. (heraldry) Alternative form of golpe

noun

1. (Ireland, slang) An annoying person; an idiot; a dishonest person.
2. (Ireland, slang) Vulva.

verb

1. (obsolete, Scotland) To weep angrily; to howl.

noun

1. (architecture) A capping moulding; a cymatium.
2. (zoology) A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.
3. The upper front of the neck, next to the chin; the upper throat.

noun

1. (obsolete) The throat; the gullet.

noun

1. (Oxbridge slang) The bottom part of a list of those awarded a degree, for those who have only just passed.
2. (figurative) A wide interval or gap; a separating space.
3. (geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea
4. (mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
5. (obsolete) That which swallows; the gullet.
6. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
7. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

verb

1. (Oxbridge slang, transitive) To award a degree to somebody who has only just passed sufficiently.

noun

1. (obsolete, Oxford University slang) A swindler or trickster.
2. (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
3. A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
5. One easily cheated; a dupe.

verb

1. (US, slang) To mislead.
2. (US, slang) To trick and defraud.
3. To deceive or cheat.

intj

1. An indication of (the sound of) an involuntary fear reaction in the form of a swallowing motion.

noun

1. (rare, computing) An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.
2. The sound of swallowing, sometimes indicating fear.
3. The usual amount swallowed.

verb

1. To react nervously by swallowing.
2. To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow.

noun

1. plural of gul

adj

1. (obsolete) Of or pertaining to gules; red.

noun

1. (LGBT slang) Term of address between gay men or transgender women.
2. (LGBT) A trans girl or woman.
3. (informal, nonstandard or eye dialect) Alternative form of girl.

verb

1. (Scotland, Ireland) To growl or snarl.

noun

1. (British slang) Pronunciation spelling of girl.
2. Alternative form of gayal (“Indian cattle”)

noun

1. Fermented wort used for making vinegar.
2. The amount of beer brewed at a time.

noun

1. Archaic form of igloo.

noun

1. plural of lag

verb

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

adj

1. (obsolete outside Northumbria) long

noun

1. Abbreviation of language

noun

1. (Ireland, slang) A legend; colloquially used to describe a person who is held in high regard.
2. (US, colloquial) Clipping of legislature.

verb

1. (obsolete) To allege; to assert.

noun

1. (bingo) eleven
2. (colloquial, oenology) Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.
3. plural of leg

verb

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

adj

1. Alternative form of peng (“attractive, excellent”)

noun

1. Alternative form of peng (“attractive woman”)

noun

1. Abbreviation of length.

verb

1. (obsolete) To lie; to tell lies.

noun

1. (informal) Clipping of linguistics.
2. A common ling (Molva molva).
3. Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
4. Any of various varieties of heather or broom.
5. Common heather (Calluna vulgaris)

noun

1. A booth or stall.
2. An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
3. An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
4. The lodge of a concierge.

noun

1. (by extension) An audio recording for the same purpose; a jingle.
2. (sciences) A single graphic which contains one or more separate elements.
3. A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.
4. An ensign, a badge of office, rank, or power.

noun

1. plural of log

verb

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

adj

1. Slow to respond or react; lethargic.

noun

1. A term formed with the -logy suffix.

adj

1. (Britain, dialect) Not short; tall.
2. (archaic) On account of, because of.
3. (cricket) Of a fielding position, close to the boundary (or closer to the boundary than the equivalent short position).
4. (finance) Possessing or owning stocks, bonds, commodities, or other financial instruments with the aim of benefiting from an expected rise in their value.
5. (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a very large return for a small wager.
6. (tennis, of a ball or a shot) Landing beyond the baseline, and therefore deemed to be out.
7. Having great duration.
8. Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).
9. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in time; far away.
10. Passing or landing ahead of or beyond the intended target or location, as weapons fire or landing aircraft.
11. Seeming to last a lot of time, due to being boring or tedious or tiring.

adv

1. For a long duration.
2. For a particular duration.
3. Over a great distance in space.

noun

1. (UK, colloquial, dated) The long summer vacation at the English universities.
2. (finance) A long-term investment.
3. (finance) An entity with a long position in an asset.
4. (linguistics) A long vowel.
5. (music) A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve.
6. (programming) A long integer variable, twice the size of an int, two or four times the size of a short, and half of a long long.
7. (prosody) A long syllable.
8. Abbreviation of longitude.

verb

1. (archaic) To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to.
2. (intransitive) To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true).
3. (obsolete) To belong.
4. (transitive, finance) To take a long position in.

noun

1. (countable) A piece of bone, ice or other material with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth.
2. (countable) A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
3. (uncountable) The sport of racing on luges.

verb

1. (figuratively) To slide or slip down a slope.
2. To ride a luge; also, to participate in the sport of luge.

noun

1. (Tyneside) plural of lug (“ear lobes”)

verb

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

noun

1. (anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
2. (in the plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
3. That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.

noun

1. (Polari, usually in the plural) An eye.
2. An impertinent, flirtatious, amorous or covetous stare.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously.

noun

1. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
2. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
3. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
4. (aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.
5. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
6. (dated) Any worn-out or useless article.
7. (dated, slang) A book that fails to sell.
8. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
9. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
10. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
11. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually with a peat or compost substrate.
12. (jewelry) A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the ear.
13. (loosely) An electric socket: wall plug.
14. (slang) A promotion (act of promoting) a product (such as a book, film or play) or other thing (concept, etc), for example during an interview or a commercial.
15. A branch from a water-pipe to supply a hose.
16. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
2. (slang, transitive) To have sex with, penetrate sexually.
3. (slang, transitive) To ingest a drug rectally
4. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
5. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
6. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.

noun

1. (UK, chiefly Cockney, derogatory) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
2. (UK, derogatory, dated) A coward.
3. (slang, derogatory) A prostitute, or a woman who acts like one; a slut.
4. Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
5. Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
6. Scoria associated with a volcano.
7. Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
8. Waste material from a mine.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
2. (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
3. (slang, transitive, sometimes with "off") To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
4. (transitive) To produce slag.
5. (transitive) To reduce to slag.

noun

1. (countable, cricket) An aggressive shot played with little skill.
2. (uncountable, chiefly Britain, Australia and Canada) A long, tedious walk, or session of work.

verb

1. (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task.
2. To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat.
3. To walk slowly, encountering resistance.

noun

1. (US, slang, District of Columbia) A hitchhiking commuter.
2. (journalism) A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
3. (letterpress typography) A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
4. (obsolete) A hindrance, an obstruction.
5. (obsolete) A slow, lazy person; a sluggard.
6. (physics, rare) The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
7. (rail transport) An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
8. (regional) A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
9. (television editing) A black screen.
10. (web design) The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
11. A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
12. A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
13. A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
14. A hard blow, usually with the fist.
15. A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
16. A ship that sails slowly.
17. A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
18. A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
19. Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.

verb

1. (intransitive, of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To move slowly or sluggishly; to lie idle.
3. (transitive) To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
4. (transitive) To load with a slug or slugs.
5. To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
6. To make sluggish.
7. To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.

noun

1. Citrus × paradisi, a cross between a tangerine, Citrus reticulata and grapefruit Citrus paradisi, grown in the West Indies.

adj

1. (Southern US) Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
2. Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.
3. Displeasing to the eye; aesthetically unpleasing.
4. Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.
5. Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

noun

1. (UK, informal, dated) A shade for the face, projecting from a bonnet.
2. (logistics, informal) Any product whose size and shape prevents it from fitting neatly on a pallet.
3. (slang) An ugly person or thing.
4. (slang, uncountable) Ugliness.

verb

1. (transitive, nonstandard) To make ugly (sometimes with up).

adj

1. (as a word gloss in dictionaries) Abbreviation of vulgar.