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anew

anew

adv

  1. (literary, poetic or formal) Again, once more; afresh, in a new way, newly.

awan

awin

awns

awns

noun

  1. plural of awn

awny

awny

adj

  1. Having awns; bearded, bristly

bawn

bawn

noun

  1. A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
  2. A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.

verb

  1. Pronunciation spelling of born.

bown

cown

dawn

dawn

noun

  1. (countable) The rising of the sun.
  2. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.
  3. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
  4. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
  2. (intransitive) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
  3. (intransitive) To start to appear or be realized.

down

down

adj

  1. (African-American Vernacular, slang) Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
  2. (Canada, US, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
  3. (baseball, cricket, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
  4. (colloquial, with "on") Negative about; hostile to.
  5. (informal) Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
  6. (normally in the combination 'down with') Sick or ill.
  7. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
  8. (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
  9. (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
  10. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
  11. (of a tree, limb, etc) Fallen or felled.
  12. At a lower level than before.
  13. Facing downwards.
  14. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
  15. Having a lower score than an opponent.
  16. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)

adv

  1. (UK, academia, dated) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
  2. (comparable) At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
  3. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
  4. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
  5. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
  6. (sports) Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
  7. As a down payment.
  8. At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
  9. Away from the city (regardless of direction).
  10. Forward, straight ahead.
  11. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
  12. From less to greater detail.
  13. Into a state of non-operation.
  14. On paper (or in a durable record).
  15. So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
  16. So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
  17. So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
  18. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
  19. To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
  20. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.

noun

  1. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
  2. (UK, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
  3. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
  4. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
  5. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
  6. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
  7. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
  8. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
  9. A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
  10. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
  11. Down payment.
  12. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
  13. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
  14. The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
  15. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.

prep

  1. (colloquial) At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
  2. From north to south of.
  3. From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
  4. From the higher end to the lower of.

verb

  1. (intransitive, rare or obsolete) To go or come down; to descend.
  2. (transitive) Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
  3. (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
  4. (transitive) To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
  5. (transitive) To lower; to put (something) down.
  6. (transitive, American football, Canadian football) To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
  7. (transitive, colloquial) To disparage; to put down.
  8. (transitive, colloquial) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
  9. (transitive, figurative) To defeat; to overpower.
  10. (transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.

dwan

enew

enew

verb

  1. (falconry, transitive) To drive back to the water; to pursue.

enow

enow

adv

  1. (archaic) Just now.
  2. (archaic, Scotland) Soon.

det

  1. Archaic form of enough.

ewan

ewen

fawn

fawn

adj

  1. Of the fawn colour.

noun

  1. (obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
  2. (rare) A servile cringe or bow.
  3. A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
  4. A young deer.
  5. Base flattery.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
  2. (intransitive) To give birth to a fawn.
  3. (intransitive) To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).
  4. (intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.

gawn

gawn

noun

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small tub or lading vessel.

verb

  1. (pronunciation spelling) Eye dialect spelling of certain regional pronunciations of going.

gnaw

gnaw

noun

  1. the act of gnawing

verb

  1. (intransitive) To produce excessive anxiety or worry.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To bite something persistently, especially something tough.
  3. To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

gnow

gown

gown

noun

  1. (by metonymy) The university community, especially as contrasted with the local populace.
  2. A loose wrapper worn by gentlemen within doors; a dressing gown.
  3. A loose, flowing upper garment.
  4. A woman's ordinary outer dress, such as a calico or silk gown.
  5. Any sort of dress or garb.
  6. The dress of civil officers, as opposed to military officers.
  7. The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.
  8. The robe worn by a surgeon.

verb

  1. To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown.

gwen

gwin

gwin

verb

  1. (informal, dialectal) present participle of go

gwyn

hewn

hewn

adj

  1. Having been cut or mown down.
  2. Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.

verb

  1. past participle of hew

hwan

hwan

noun

  1. The monetary unit of South Korea from February 15, 1953 to June 9, 1962.

jawn

jawn

noun

  1. (slang, chiefly Philadelphia) A woman.
  2. (slang, chiefly Philadelphia) Something; any object, place, or person.

verb

  1. Obsolete form of yawn.

knaw

knaw

verb

  1. Archaic spelling of gnaw.
  2. Nonstandard form of know.

knew

knew

verb

  1. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of know
  2. simple past tense of know

know

know

noun

  1. (rare) Knowledge; the state of knowing.
  2. Knowledge; the state of knowing; now confined to the fixed phrase ‘in the know’

verb

  1. (intransitive) To be or become aware or cognizant.
  2. (intransitive) To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To be acquainted (with another person).
  4. (transitive) To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
  5. (transitive) To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
  6. (transitive) To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
  7. (transitive) To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
  8. (transitive) To experience.
  9. (transitive) To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
  10. (transitive) To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
  11. (transitive, archaic, biblical) To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ’know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know Biblically.’
  12. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.

kwan

kwan

noun

  1. A school of Korean martial arts.

kwon

lawn

lawn

noun

  1. (England, historical or regional) An open space between woods.
  2. (biology) An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
  3. (countable, obsolete) A piece of clothing made from lawn.
  4. (in the plural) Pieces of this fabric, especially as used for the sleeves of a bishop.
  5. (uncountable) A type of thin linen or cotton.
  6. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.

lown

lown

adj

  1. (chiefly Scotland) Peaceful, calm.

noun

  1. (Scotland) Calm, tranquillity.
  2. (obsolete) A low fellow.
  3. A shelter; a calm or peaceful place.

mawn

mawn

noun

  1. (Scotland, dialect) A maund; a basket or hamper.

mown

mown

verb

  1. past participle of mow

narw

nawt

news

news

noun

  1. (computing, Internet) Posts published on newsgroups
  2. Information about current events disseminated via media.
  3. New information of interest.

verb

  1. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.

newt

newt

noun

  1. A small lizard-like amphibian in the family Salamandridae that lives in the water as an adult.

nfwi

norw

nows

nows

noun

  1. plural of now

nowt

nowt

noun

  1. (Northern England, Sussex, Berkshire) Naught, nothing.
  2. (Scotland and Northern England) A herd of cattle.
  3. (Scotland and Northern England) An ox.
  4. (figurative, Scotland and Northern England) A dumb, crass, or clumsy person, or a person who is difficult or stubborn.

pron

  1. (Northern England) Naught, nothing.

nowy

nowy

adj

  1. (heraldry) Nowed (knotted).

nswc

nuww

nwbn

nwbw

nwlb

owen

owen

Proper noun

  1. name of origin, possibly derived from Eugene, cognate to Gaelic Eòghan.
  2. derived from the given name.
  3. from the Gaelic Mac Eoghain.
  4. A town in South Australia
  5. A town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  6. A town in Indiana
  7. A city in Wisconsin

owhn

owns

owns

verb

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

pawn

pawn

noun

  1. (chess) The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only diagonally or en passant.
  2. (figurative) Someone who is being manipulated or used to some end.
  3. (now rare) An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
  4. (rare) A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
  5. (uncountable) The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
  6. A gallery.
  7. Alternative form of paan
  8. An instance of pawning something.

verb

  1. (video games) Alternative form of pwn
  2. To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
  3. To pledge; to stake or wager.

sawn

sawn

verb

  1. (nonstandard, dialectal) past participle of see; seen
  2. past participle of saw

sewn

sewn

verb

  1. past participle of sew

snaw

snew

snew

verb

  1. (dialectal) simple past tense of snow
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To abound.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To snow.

snow

snow

noun

  1. (countable) A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
  2. (nautical) A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
  3. (uncountable) A shade of the color white.
  4. (uncountable) Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
  5. (uncountable) The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
  6. (uncountable) The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
  7. (uncountable, slang) Cocaine.
  8. marine snow

verb

  1. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
  2. (impersonal) To have snow fall from the sky.
  3. (poker) To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.

sown

sown

noun

  1. (especially historiography) Cultivated land inhabited by sedentary agriculturalists, in contrast to the nomad pastoralists of the steppe or desert.

verb

  1. past participle of sow

swan

swan

noun

  1. (figuratively) One whose grace etc. suggests a swan.
  2. (heraldry) This bird used as a heraldic charge, sometimes with a crown around its neck (e. g. the arms of Buckinghamshire).
  3. Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.

verb

  1. (US, dialectal or colloquial) To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions).
  2. (intransitive) To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way.

swen

tawn

tawn

name

  1. (Bermuda, colloquial, uncountable) Hamilton (the capital city of Bermuda).

noun

  1. (Bermuda, countable) Pronunciation spelling of town.
  2. (rare) A tan.

verb

  1. (transitive) To tan, make tawny.

town

town

noun

  1. (England, traditional, also Town, in phrases such as 'in town' or 'to town') London, especially central London.
  2. (UK, Scotland, dialect, obsolete) A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
  3. (UK, historical) A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.
  4. (colloquial) Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion.
  5. (law) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.
  6. (obsolete) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor; by extension, the whole of the land which constituted the domain.
  7. A major city, especially one where the speaker is located.
  8. A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city, historically enclosed by a fence or walls, with total populations ranging from several hundred to more than a hundred thousand (as of the early 21st century)
  9. Any more urbanized centre than the place of reference.
  10. The residents (as opposed to gown: the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.

twin

twin

adj

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

noun

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

verb

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

wain

wain

noun

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

verb

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

wana

wand

wand

noun

  1. (by extension) An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand.
  2. A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands.
  3. A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority.
  4. A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod).
  5. A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow.

verb

  1. (transitive) To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.

wane

wane

noun

  1. (Scotland, slang) A child.
  2. (chiefly Northern England and Scotland, obsolete) A house or dwelling.
  3. (literary) The end of a period.
  4. (woodworking) A rounded corner caused by lack of wood, often showing bark.
  5. A gradual diminution in power, value, intensity etc.
  6. The lunar phase during which the sun seems to illuminate less of the moon as its sunlit area becomes progressively smaller as visible from Earth.
  7. ]]

verb

  1. (intransitive) Said of a time period that comes to an end.
  2. (intransitive) Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength.
  3. (intransitive) To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline.
  4. (intransitive, archaic) To decrease physically in size, amount, numbers or surface.
  5. (intransitive, astronomy) Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible.
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to decrease.

wang

wang

noun

  1. (colloquial) Penis.
  2. (dialectal or obsolete) The cheek; the jaw.
  3. Alternative spelling of whang

verb

  1. (transitive) To batter; to clobber; to conk.
  2. (transitive) To throw hard.
  3. To continue to talk about a specific subject.

wank

wank

noun

  1. (countable, slang, vulgar) An act of masturbation.
  2. (countable, slang, vulgar, derogatory) An undesirable person.
  3. (countable, uncountable, fandom slang) Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
  4. (uncountable, chiefly vulgar, fandom slang and Internet slang) Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
  5. (uncountable, slang, vulgar) Nonsense, rubbish.

verb

  1. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate.
  2. (intransitive, vulgar, chiefly fandom slang and Internet slang) To argue in an inappropriate manner or about pretentious or insubstantial matters; to engage in wank.
  3. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To masturbate; to give a hand job to.

wann

wans

wans

noun

  1. plural of wan

want

want

noun

  1. (UK, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
  2. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
  3. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence, deficiency.
  4. (dialectal) A mole (Talpa europea).
  5. (uncountable) Poverty.
  6. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.

verb

  1. (by extension) To make it easy or tempting to do something undesirable, or to make it hard or challenging to refrain from doing it.
  2. (colloquial, usually second person, often future tense) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
  3. (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
  4. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
  5. (intransitive, dated) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
  6. (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
  7. (transitive, archaic) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
  8. (transitive, in particular) To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
  9. (transitive, now colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
  10. (transitive, now rare) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
  11. (transitive, obsolete, by extension) To lack and (be able to) do without.

wany

wany

adj

  1. Spoiled by wet; said of timber.
  2. Waning or diminished in some parts; not of uniform size throughout; said especially of sawed boards or timber cut too near the outside of the log.

warn

warn

verb

  1. (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away.
  2. (intransitive) To give warning.
  3. (transitive) To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour.
  4. (transitive) To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc.
  5. (transitive) To notify or inform (someone, about something).
  6. (transitive) To summon (someone) to or inform of a formal meeting or duty.
  7. (transitive, intransitive, of a clock, possibly obsolete) To make a sound (e.g. clicking or whirring) indicating that it is about to strike or chime (an hour).

wasn

wean

wean

noun

  1. (Scotland, Ulster) A small child.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To cease to depend on the mother's milk for nutrition.
  2. (intransitive, by extension) To cease to depend.
  3. (transitive) To cease giving breast milk to an offspring; to accustom and reconcile (a child or young animal) to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder.
  4. (transitive, by extension, normally "wean off") To cause to quit something to which one is addicted, dependent, or habituated.
  5. (transitive, by extension, obsolete) To raise, to help grow toward maturity

ween

ween

noun

  1. (obsolete) Doubt; conjecture.
  2. (slang) penis
  3. (slang) wiener dog, dachshund

verb

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To weep or cry.
  2. (archaic) To suppose, imagine; to think, believe.
  3. (dated) To expect, hope or wish.
  4. (obsolete) To lament.
  5. Misspelling of wean.

wein

wend

wend

noun

  1. (obsolete, UK, law) A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit

verb

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To pass away; disappear; depart; vanish.
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn; make a turn; go round; veer.
  3. (transitive) To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To turn; change, to adapt.

wene

wenn

wens

wens

noun

  1. plural of wen

went

went

noun

  1. (obsolete) A course; a way, a path; a journey.

verb

  1. (archaic) simple past tense and past participle of wend
  2. (nonstandard) past participle of go
  3. simple past tense of go

wenz

wezn

whan

when

when

adv

  1. (fused relative) The time at, on or during which.
  2. (informal, in definitions or explanations) A circumstance or situation in which.
  3. (interrogative) At what time? At which time? Upon which occasion or circumstance? Used to introduce direct or indirect questions about time.
  4. (relative) At which, on which, during which: often omitted or replaced with that.
  5. At an earlier time and under different, usually less favorable, circumstances.

conj

  1. At (or as soon as) that time that; at the (or any and every) time that; if.
  2. At what time; at which time.
  3. During the time that; at the time of the action of the following clause or participle phrase.
  4. Since; given the fact that; considering that.
  5. Whereas; although; at the same time as; in spite of the fact that.

intj

  1. (obsolete) Expressing impatience. (Compare what.)
  2. (often humorous) That's enough: a command asking someone to stop adding something, especially an ingredient or portion of food or drink; used in, or as if in, literal response to 'Say when'.

noun

  1. The time at which something happens.

pron

  1. (interrogative) What time; which time.

whin

whin

noun

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

whon

whun

wien

wina

wind

wind

noun

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

verb

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

wine

wine

noun

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

verb

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

wing

wing

noun

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

verb

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

wini

wink

wink

noun

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

verb

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

winn

wino

wino

noun

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

wins

wins

noun

  1. plural of win

verb

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

wint

winy

winy

adj

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

wiyn

woan

wone

wone

noun

  1. (obsolete, poetic) A house, home, habitation, dwelling.
  2. Custom, habit, practice.

verb

  1. (obsolete or archaic, dialectal) To live, reside, stay.

wong

wong

noun

  1. (obsolete, except in placenames) A field or other piece of land.
  2. In the game of pai gow, a hand in which the double-one or double-six domino is used with a nine, making the hand worth eleven points rather than the usual one.

verb

  1. (gambling) To enter a betting game, particularly blackjack, when the odds are favorable.

wonk

wonk

noun

  1. (by extension, informal) A policy wonk or other intellectual expert.
  2. (derogatory, informal) An overly studious person, particularly student.

wons

wons

verb

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

wont

wont

adj

  1. Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).

noun

  1. (archaic) One's habitual way of doing things; custom, habit, practice.

verb

  1. (intransitive, archaic) To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something).
  2. (transitive, archaic) To make (someone) used to; to accustom.

woon

woon

noun

  1. (obsolete) dwelling; wone

worn

worn

adj

  1. Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
  2. Worn out; exhausted.

verb

  1. past participle of wear

wran

wren

wren

noun

  1. Any member of a mainly New World passerine bird family Troglodytidae; a true wren.
  2. Any small bird of similar appearance to a true wren, such as a fairywren or scrubwren.
  3. Troglodytes troglodytes (Eurasian wren, type species and sole Old World species of the family Troglodytidae).

wrns

wrnt

wsan

wynd

wynd

noun

  1. (Ireland, dated) A stack of hay.
  2. (chiefly Scotland, Northumbria) A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.

wyne

wyne

noun

  1. Obsolete form of wine.

wynn

wynn

noun

  1. A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
  2. A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.

wyns

wyns

noun

  1. plural of wyn

wyon

yawn

yawn

noun

  1. (colloquial) A particularly boring event.
  2. The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
  2. (obsolete) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
  3. (obsolete) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
  4. To present a wide opening; gape.
  5. To say while yawning.