HANGMAN SOLVER

noun

1. A plant of the genus Acer; a maple.
2. Obsolete spelling of acre

noun

1. (anatomy, rare) The vascular areas of the body most removed from the heart.

noun

1. (Chester, historical) An area of 10,240 square yards or 4 quarters.
2. (informal, usually in the plural) A large quantity.
3. (informal, usually in the plural) A wide expanse.
4. (obsolete) A duel fought between individual Scots and Englishmen in the borderlands.
5. (obsolete) A field.
6. (obsolete) The acre's breadth by the length, English units of length equal to the statute dimensions of the acre: 22 yds (≈20 m) by 220 yds (≈200 m).
7. An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres.
8. Any of various similar units of area in other systems.

adj

1. knowing, clever, mischievous
2. principal; primary

noun

1. (anatomy) Curved part of the bottom of a foot.
2. (archaic, geometry) An arc; a part of a curve.
3. (architecture) An architectural element having the shape of an arch
4. (obsolete) chief
5. A natural arch-shaped opening in a rock mass.
6. An arch-shaped arrangement of trapezoidal stones, designed to redistribute downward force outward.
7. An inverted U shape.
8. Any place covered by an arch; an archway.

verb

1. To cover with an arch or arches.
2. To form into an arch shape.

adv

1. (music) A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.

noun

1. plural of arc

verb

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

noun

1. Alternative form of caer (“Welsh fortress”)

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To go.
2. (transitive, dialectal) To toss backwards and forwards; mix up; overhandle; stir about.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To carry.

noun

1. (drugs) The hole on a pipe which is covered and opened to control the inflow of air.
2. (informal) Clipping of carburettor / carburetor.
3. (informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of carbohydrate.

noun

1. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
2. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures.
3. (dated) A printed programme.
4. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
5. (dated, figurative, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
6. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
7. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
8. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
9. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric.
10. (obsolete) A map or chart.
11. (television) A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot.
12. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight.
13. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
14. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom.
15. A business card.
16. A greeting card.
17. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling.
18. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
19. A playing card.
20. A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose.
21. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
22. A test card.
23. Abbreviation of cardinal (“songbird”).
24. An indicator card.
25. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc.
26. Obsolete form of chard.

verb

1. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
2. (dated) To play cards.
3. (golf) To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
5. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
6. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
7. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
8. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.

noun

1. (obsolete) Grief, sorrow. [13th–19th c.]
2. Close attention; concern; responsibility.
3. Maintenance, upkeep.
4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
5. The state of being cared for by others.
6. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
7. Worry.

verb

1. (intransitive) (with for) To look after or look out for.
2. (intransitive, Appalachia) To mind; to object.
3. (intransitive, informal, by extension) For it to matter to, or make any difference to.
4. (intransitive, polite, formal) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about).

noun

1. Synonym of kerf

noun

1. (obsolete) A noxious or corroding worry.
2. (obsolete) The state of being filled with worry.

verb

1. (intransitive) To labor anxiously.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles.
3. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety.
4. Pronunciation spelling of caulk.
5. See cark it.

noun

1. (Scotland, obsolete) A stingy person; a niggard.
2. A rude, rustic man; a churl.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.

intj

1. (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
2. (Australia, informal) Come on.

noun

1. Archaic form of cairn.

noun

1. Any of various freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, especially the common carp, Cyprinus carpio.

verb

1. (obsolete) To say; to tell.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To find fault with; to censure.
3. To complain about a fault; to harp on.

noun

1. (Northumberland Dialect) rock
2. A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
3. A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.
4. Archaic form of car (“wheeled vehicle”).

noun

1. plural of car

noun

1. (Internet) A shopping cart.
2. (computing, video games, informal) A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
3. (radio, informal) A tape cartridge used for pre-recorded material such as jingles and advertisements.
4. A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.
5. A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, more often used for transporting goods than passengers.

verb

1. (transitive) To carry or convey in a cart.
2. (transitive) To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal.
3. (transitive, informal) To carry goods.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To expose in a cart by way of punishment.

Noun

1. commodore

noun

1. (ornithology) A fleshy, waxy area at the base of the upper beak in certain birds.

verb

1. (transitive) To wax; to cover or close with wax.

noun

1. A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies.

adj

1. Alternative form of cert.

noun

1. (informal) A certainty; something guaranteed to happen.
2. (informal) Certificate.

noun

1. (Britain) Alternative form of cha (tea)
2. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
3. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
4. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
5. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
6. A charred substance.
7. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
8. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.

verb

1. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
2. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
3. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
4. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
5. To work or hew (stone, etc.)
6. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of 'cher

verb

1. (Tyneside) Alternative form of chore (“to steal”).

adj

1. (Hong Kong) Overwhelming; intense.

intj

1. A parting salutation: bye, see you later.
2. A strong voicing of agreement, approval, or thanks: awesome!, cheers!, ta!, thanks!.

noun

1. (India, dated) An island or shoal in a river.

verb

1. (Hong Kong) To do something overwhelming or intense.

noun

1. (informal) Circumcision.
2. (obsolete) An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.

noun

1. A fabric with a glazed finish.

noun

1. The cirl bunting

noun

1. Abbreviation of councillor.

noun

1. The fibre obtained from the husk of a coconut, used chiefly in making rope, matting and as a peat substitute.

noun

1. (anatomy) Any structure having the appearance of a cord, especially a tendon or nerve.
2. (figuratively) Any influence by which persons are caught, held, or drawn, as if by a cord.
3. A long, thin, flexible length of twisted yarns (strands) of fiber (rope, for example); (uncountable) such a length of twisted strands considered as a commodity.
4. A small flexible electrical conductor composed of wires insulated separately or in bundles and assembled together usually with an outer cover; the electrical cord of a lamp, sweeper ((US) vacuum cleaner), or other appliance.
5. A unit of measurement for firewood, equal to 128 cubic feet (4 × 4 × 8 feet), composed of logs and/or split logs four feet long and none over eight inches diameter. It is usually seen as a stack four feet high by eight feet long.
6. Dated form of chord: musical sense.
7. Misspelling of chord: a cross-section measurement of an aircraft wing.

verb

1. To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
2. To flatten a book during binding
3. To furnish with cords
4. To tie or fasten with cords

adj

1. Forming the most important or essential part.

noun

1. (automotive, machinery, aviation, marine) A deposit paid by the purchaser of a rebuilt part, to be refunded on return of a used, rebuildable part, or the returned rebuildable part itself.
2. (biochemistry) The central part of a protein's structure, consisting mostly of hydrophobic amino acids.
3. (botany) Used to designate the main and most diverse monophyletic group within a clade or taxonomic group.
4. (computer hardware) An individual computer processor, in the sense when several processors (called cores or CPU cores) are plugged together in one single integrated circuit to work as one (called a multi-core processor).
5. (computing, informal, historical) Ellipsis of core memory.; magnetic data storage.
6. (engineering) The material between surface materials in a structured composite sandwich material.
7. (engineering) The portion of a mold that creates an internal cavity within a casting or that makes a hole in or through a casting.
8. (engineering, nuclear physics) The inner part of a nuclear reactor, in which the nuclear reaction takes place.
9. (game theory) The set of feasible allocations that cannot be improved upon by a subset (a coalition) of the economy's agents.
10. (historical units of measure) Alternative form of cor: a former Hebrew and Phoenician unit of volume.
11. (medicine) A tiny sample of organic material obtained by means of a fine-needle biopsy.
12. (military) The central fissile portion of a fission weapon.
13. (obsolete) A body of individuals; an assemblage.
14. (physics) An atomic nucleus plus inner electrons (i.e., an atom, except for its valence electrons).
15. (printing) A hollow cylindrical piece of cardboard around which a web of paper or plastic is wound.
16. A cylindrical sample of rock or other materials obtained by core drilling.
17. A disorder of sheep caused by worms in the liver.
18. A miner's underground working time or shift.
19. A piece of ferromagnetic material (e.g., soft iron), inside the windings of an electromagnet, that channels the magnetic field.
20. The anatomical core, muscles which bridge abdomen and thorax.
21. The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
22. The center or inner part of a space or area.
23. The central part of a fruit, containing the kernels or seeds.
24. The heart or inner part of a physical thing.
25. The most important part of a thing or aggregate of things wherever located and whether of any determinate location at all; the essence.

verb

1. To cut or drill through the core of (something).
2. To extract a sample with a drill.
3. To remove the core of an apple or other fruit.

noun

1. (fishing) A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.
2. (mining) A large basket, especially as used for coal.
3. (mining) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

adj

1. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) Having the property of a head over heels rotation.

noun

1. (botany) The dead protective tissue between the bark and cambium in woody plants, with suberin deposits making it impervious to gasses and water.
2. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) An aerialist maneuver involving a rotation where the rider goes heels over head, with the board overhead.
3. (uncountable) The bark of the cork oak, which is very light and porous and used for making bottle stoppers, flotation devices, and insulation material.
4. A bottle stopper made from this or any other material.
5. An angling float, also traditionally made of oak cork.
6. The cork oak, Quercus suber.

verb

1. (fishing) To position one's drift net just outside of another person's net, thereby intercepting and catching all the fish that would have gone into that person's net.
2. (snowboarding, skiing, skateboarding) To perform such a maneuver.
3. (transitive) To blacken (as) with a burnt cork.
4. (transitive) To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper.
5. (transitive, Australia) To injure through a blow; to induce a haematoma.
6. (transitive, baseball) To tamper with (a bat) by drilling out part of the head and filling the cavity with cork or similar light, compressible material.
7. To fill with cork.
8. To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it.

noun

1. A short, vertical, swollen, underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.

noun

1. (Commonwealth English, but not Australia or New Zealand, uncountable) Any cereal plant (or its grain) that is the main crop or staple of a country or region.
2. (Jamaica, MLE, slang, firearms, uncountable) bullets, ammunition, charge and discharge of firearms
3. (Jamaica, slang, uncountable) money.
4. (US, Canada) Something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
5. (US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, uncountable) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
6. (uncountable) A type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and refreezing, often in mountain spring conditions.
7. (veterinary medicine, pathology, cattle) (countable) skin hyperplasia with underlying fibroma between both digits of cattle.
8. (veterinary medicine, pathology, equestrianism) (countable) inflammatory disease of horse hoof, at the caudal part of the sole.
9. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
10. A small, hard particle.
11. A type of callus, usually on the feet or hands.

verb

1. (Jamaica, MLE, slang) to shoot up with bullets as by a shotgun (corn).
2. (US, Canada) to granulate; to form a substance into grains
3. (US, Canada) to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef
4. (US, Canada) to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed
5. to render intoxicated

noun

1. Alternative form of corp.

noun

1. Any fish belonging to the genus Corydoras, a group of South American freshwater catfish.

noun

1. (dated) An unsold book that is returned to the publisher.
2. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
3. (informal) Short for carabiner.
4. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
5. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
6. (uncountable) The meat of this crustacean, served as food; crabmeat.
7. (uncountable, aviation) The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.
8. (uncountable, aviation) The state of an aircraft's nose being pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing.
9. A bad-tempered person.
10. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
11. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace.
12. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
13. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
14. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
15. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
16. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
17. The crab apple or wild apple.
18. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
19. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native to South America.

verb

1. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick
2. (intransitive) To drift or move sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a crab).
3. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
4. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour
5. (obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the machine guns on early aircraft did not allow firing through the propeller disk.
6. (rare) To back out of something.
7. (transitive) To complain about.
8. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
9. (transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.
10. (transitive, film, television) To move (a camera) sideways.
11. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
12. To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.

noun

1. (dialectal or obsolete) The neck or throat.
2. (geology) A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Pliocene to Pleistocene epochs.
3. A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep cliff or rock.
4. A rough, broken fragment of rock.

noun

1. (dated, British slang) A lie; a falsehood.
2. (uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
3. (weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
4. A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information.
5. Information hastily memorized.
6. The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something).

verb

1. (intransitive) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself.
2. (intransitive) To study hard; to swot.
3. (intransitive, dated, British slang) To lie; to intentionally not tell the truth.
4. (transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
5. (transitive) To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity.
6. (transitive) To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination.
7. (transitive, dated, British slang) To make (a person) believe false or exaggerated tales.

noun

1. (music) An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.
2. (obsolete) A measure of herrings, either imprecise or sometimes legally specified. It has sometimes been about 37½ imperial gallons, or 750 herrings on average.
3. (obsolete, rare, by extension) A barrel made to hold such a measure.
4. Alternative form of qiran

adj

1. (chiefly UK, Canada, US, colloquial, mildly vulgar) Of poor quality.

intj

1. (slang, vulgar) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance, or dismay.

noun

1. (gambling, dice games) A losing throw of 2, 3, or 12 in craps.
2. (obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
3. (slang, mildly vulgar) Faeces/feces.
4. (slang, mildly vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
5. (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Nonsense; something untrue.
6. (slang, mildly vulgar, uncountable) Something worthless or of poor quality; junk.

verb

1. (India, mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To bullshit.
2. (mildly vulgar, slang, intransitive) To defecate.
3. (mildly vulgar, slang, transitive) To defecate in or on (clothing etc.).

noun

1. (archaic) The stomach of an animal.
2. The crop of a bird.

verb

1. (archaic) To caw, crow.

noun

1. A crayfish or lobster.

noun

1. (Britain, dialectal) A pen for livestock such as chickens or pigs
2. (Scouting) A group of Rovers.
3. (art) The group of workers on a dramatic production who are not part of the cast.
4. (art, plural: crew) A worker on a dramatic production who is not part of the cast.
5. (informal, often derogatory) A close group of friends.
6. (nautical, plural: crew) A member of a ship's company who is not an officer.
7. (obsolete) Any company of people; an assemblage; a throng.
8. (often derogatory) A set of individuals lumped together by the speaker.
9. (plural: crew) A member of the crew of a vessel or plant.
10. (rowing) A rowing team manning a single shell.
11. (slang, hip-hop) A hip-hop or b-boying group.
12. (sports, rowing, US, uncountable) The sport of competitive rowing.
13. A group of people (often staff) manning and operating a large facility or piece of equipment such as a factory, ship, boat, airplane, or spacecraft.
14. A group of people working together on a task.
15. The Manx shearwater.

verb

1. (Britain, archaic) simple past tense of crow (“make the characteristic sound of a rooster”).
2. (nautical) To do the proper work of a sailor
3. (nautical) To take on, recruit (new) crew
4. (transitive and intransitive) To be a member of a vessel's crew
5. To be a member of a work or production crew
6. To supply workers or sailors for a crew

noun

1. (Britain) A bed for a child older than a baby.
2. (Canada) A small raft made of timber.
3. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) The stomach.
4. (US) A baby’s bed with high, often slatted, often moveable sides, suitable for a child who has outgrown a cradle or bassinet.
5. (cribbage) The card game cribbage.
6. (cribbage) The cards discarded by players and used by the dealer.
7. (cryptography) A known piece of information corresponding to a section of encrypted text, that is then used to work out the remaining sections.
8. (nautical) A small sleeping berth in a packet ship or other small vessel
9. (now chiefly Australia, New Zealand) A snack or packed lunch, especially as taken to work to eat during a break.
10. (obsolete) A job, a position; (Britain) an appointment.
11. (obsolete) A minor theft, extortion or embezzlement, with or without criminal intent.
12. (slang) A cheat sheet or past test used by students; crib sheet.
13. (slang, sometimes African-American Vernacular) One’s residence, house or dwelling place, or usual place of resort.
14. (southern New Zealand) A small holiday home, often near a beach and of simple construction.
15. (usually in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.
16. A bin for drying or storing grain, as with a corn crib.
17. A boxy structure traditionally built of heavy wooden timbers, to support an existing structure from below, as with a mineshaft or a building being raised off its foundation in preparation for being moved; see cribbing.
18. A confined space, as with a cage or office-cubicle
19. A hovel, a roughly constructed building best suited to the shelter of animals but used for human habitation.
20. A literal translation, usually of a work originally in Latin or Ancient Greek.
21. A manger, a feeding trough for animals elevated off the earth or floor, especially one for fodder such as hay.
22. A small room or covered structure, especially one of rough construction, used for storage or penning animals.
23. A wicker basket; compare Moses basket.
24. The baby Jesus and the manger in a creche or nativity scene, consisting of statues of Mary, Joseph and various other characters such as the magi.

verb

1. (India) To complain, to grumble
2. (intransitive) To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
3. (intransitive, of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.
4. (transitive) To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
5. (transitive) To place or confine in a crib.
6. (transitive, informal) To plagiarize; to copy; to cheat.
7. (transitive, obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
8. To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
9. To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.

noun

1. (medicine, colloquial) Cricothyrotomy; cricothyroidotomy.

noun

1. (UK, Australia, informal) A criminal.

noun

1. horsehair fabric

noun

1. (offensive) A cripple.
2. (rehabilitation, generally self-referential) A person with a disability.

verb

1. (dance) To do a Crip Walk.
2. (disability studies) To apply a disability justice perspective to something.

noun

1. Alternative form of kris (“dagger”)

noun

1. (cycling) A criterium race.
2. (informal) A proponent of critical legal studies.
3. (informal) Criticism.
4. (informal) Critique.
5. (medicine, colloquial) Haematocrit.
6. (slang, role-playing games) A critical hit.

verb

1. (transitive, slang, role-playing games) To land a critical hit on.

noun

1. (colloquial) A crocodile.
2. A plastic slip-on shoe.

noun

1. (agriculture) A plant, especially a cereal, grown to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
2. (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation; a craw.
3. (archaic or dialect) The head of a flower, especially when picked; an ear of corn; the top branches of a tree.
4. (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
5. (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
6. (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
7. A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
8. A group, cluster or collection of things occurring at the same time.
9. A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
10. A rocky outcrop.
11. A short haircut.
12. An entire oxhide.
13. An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding; a riding crop.
14. The act of cropping.
15. The lashing end of a whip.
16. The natural production for a specific year, particularly of plants.

verb

1. (intransitive) To yield harvest.
2. (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
3. (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
4. (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
5. (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
6. (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
7. (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.

noun

1. (among butchers) The mesentery of an animal.
2. (ethnic slur, offensive, slang) A black person.
3. (historical) A gangplank (corvus) used by the Ancient Roman navy to board enemy ships.
4. (military, slang) The emblem of an eagle, a sign of military rank.
5. A bar of iron with a beak, crook or claw; a bar of iron used as a lever; a crowbar.
6. A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strong conical beak, with projecting bristles; it has a harsh, croaking call.
7. Any of various dark-coloured nymphalid butterflies of the genus Euploea.
8. The cry of the bird known in the US as a rooster and in British English as a cockerel.

verb

1. (intransitive) To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance.
2. (intransitive) To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag.
3. (intransitive, music) To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it.

noun

1. (Scottish) a natural or man-made protrusion or jetty projecting on a river and used to manage river fisheries, providing an obstacle to slow down current, a shelter for fish, a funnel to net them, and a platform to cast from.

intj

1. Non-vulgar interjection expressing annoyance, anxiety, etc.; sugar, damn.

noun

1. (countable) A contemptible person.
2. (uncountable) A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
3. (uncountable) Dirt, filth or refuse.
4. (uncountable, euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
5. (uncountable, figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
6. (uncountable, skiing, snowboarding) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
7. (uncountable, slang, US, military and students) Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
8. Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.

verb

1. (transitive) To clog with dirt or debris.

noun

1. Obsolete form of crumb.

adj

1. Short; brittle (both literally and figuratively).

noun

1. Alternative form of croup (the rump of a horse)

noun

1. A leglike part; shank
2. The shin (tibia and fibula)
3. plural of cru

noun

1. (UK, dialect) A dwarf.
2. (mining) A cross-measure tunnel or drift.
3. The rough, shaggy part of oak bark.

noun

1. (climbing) The hardest point of a climb.
2. (heraldry) A cross on a coat of arms.
3. A puzzle or difficulty.
4. The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
5. The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.

noun

1. (rare) Alternative spelling of tsar

noun

1. Alternative form of ctrl. Abbreviation of control.

noun

1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK, Australia, New Zealand)
2. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with adjacent paved areas to permit vehicles to off-load or load passengers.
3. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
4. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
5. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness.
6. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.

verb

1. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.
2. (transitive) To bend or curve.
3. (transitive) To bring to a stop beside a curb.
4. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
5. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
6. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
7. (transitive) To rein in.
8. (transitive, slang) Ellipsis of curb stomp.

noun

1. The coagulated part of any liquid.
2. The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.
3. The part of milk that coagulates when it sours or is treated with enzymes; used to make cottage cheese, dahi, etc.

verb

1. (intransitive) To form curd; to curdle.
2. (transitive) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

noun

1. (engineering) A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure and/or weathering.
2. (figurative) A solution to a problem.
3. (obsolete) Care, heed, or attention.
4. A method, device or medication that restores good health.
5. A process of preservation, as by smoking.
6. A process of solidification or gelling.
7. Act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
8. Spiritual charge; care of soul; the office of a parish priest or of a curate.
9. That which is committed to the charge of a parish priest or of a curate.

verb

1. (intransitive) To be undergoing a chemical or physical process for preservation or use.
2. (intransitive) To bring about a cure of any kind.
3. (intransitive) To solidify or gel.
4. (obsolete) To pay heed; to care; to give attention.
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To become healed.
6. (transitive) To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end.
7. (transitive) To cause to be rid of (a defect).
8. (transitive) To prepare or alter especially by chemical or physical processing for keeping or use.
9. (transitive) To restore to health.
10. To preserve (food), typically by salting.

noun

1. A limestone containing cherts

noun

1. (American football) A pattern where the receiver appears to be running a fly pattern but after a set number of steps or yards quickly stops and turns around, looking for a pass.
2. (agriculture) Any of various diseases of plants causing the leaves or shoots to curl up; often specifically the potato curl.
3. (calculus) The vector field denoting the rotationality of a given vector field.
4. (calculus, proper noun) The vector operator, denoted rm curl; or ⃑∇⨯⃑(·), that generates this field.
5. (curling) Movement of a moving rock away from a straight line.
6. (music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
7. (weightlifting) Any exercise performed by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially those that train the biceps.
8. A curved stroke or shape.
9. A curving piece or lock of hair; a ringlet.
10. A spin making the trajectory of an object curve.
11. {{ux|en|The curl of the vector field ⃑F(x,y,z) is the vector field operatorname curl,⃑F≡⃑∇⨯⃑F=((∂F_z)/(∂y)-(∂F_y)/(∂z),(∂F_x)/(∂z)-(∂F_z)/(∂x),(∂F_y)/(∂x)-(∂F_x)/(∂y)).}}

verb

1. (hat-making) To shape (the brim of a hat) into a curve.
2. (intransitive) To assume the shape of a curl or spiral.
3. (intransitive) To move in curves.
4. (intransitive, curling) To take part in the sport of curling.
5. (transitive) To cause to move in a curve.
6. (transitive) To make into a curl or spiral.
7. (transitive, weightlifting) To exercise by bending the arm, wrist, or leg on the exertion against resistance, especially of the biceps.
8. To deck with, or as if with, curls; to ornament.
9. To raise in waves or undulations; to ripple.
10. To twist or form (the hair, etc.) into ringlets.

verb

1. (archaic, intransitive) To coo like an owl.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To purr like a cat.

noun

1. plural of cur

adj

1. Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
2. Short or concise.

verb

1. (obsolete, rare) To cut, cut short, shorten.

noun

1. (informal, US politics) An appointed official tasked to regulate or oversee a specific area.
2. Alternative spelling of tsar (especially common in American English)

Proper noun

1. Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor; see

adj

1. Of a beige colour.

noun

1. A beige colour.

noun

1. (historical) A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.