HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to aviation.
2. Aerodynamic; having an aerodynamic appearance.

noun

1. (informal, countable, dated) An airplane or airship.
2. (slang, uncountable, motor racing) Aerodynamics.
3. (uncountable) Aerospace.

noun

1. A person of African ancestry
2. hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.

noun

1. Alternative form of amour

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.

adv

1. In a row, line, or rank; successively.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, informal) Afternoon.

noun

1. (by extension, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) Any ballpoint pen.
2. (uncountable, by extension) Ink from a ballpoint pen.
3. A BIRO brand ballpoint pen.

noun

1. A male bear.
2. A male boar (sense 1).
3. A male guinea pig.
4. A male pig.
5. A wild boar (Sus scrofa), the wild ancestor of the domesticated pig.

noun

1. (physics, chemistry) Synonym of Bohr radius

noun

1. A Boer, white South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent.
2. A peasant.
3. A yokel, country bumpkin.
4. An uncultured person.

noun

1. A cold, often dry, northeasterly wind which blows, sometimes in violent gusts, down from mountains on the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea. It also applies to cold, squally, downslope winds in other parts of the world.
2. A initiation ceremony for males among the Aborigines of New South Wales.

noun

1. (mining) The coalface parallel to the natural fissures.
2. Obsolete form of board.
3. Obsolete form of bourd.

noun

1. A capped well drilled to tap artesian water.
2. A hole drilled or milled through something, or (by extension) its diameter.
3. A sudden and rapid flow of tide occurring in certain rivers and estuaries which rolls up as a wave.
4. A tool, such as an auger, for making a hole by boring.
5. Calibre; importance.
6. One who inspires boredom or lack of interest; an uninteresting person.
7. Something dull or uninteresting.
8. The place where such a well exists.
9. The tunnel inside of a gun's barrel through which the bullet travels when fired, or (by extension) its diameter.

verb

1. (colloquial) past participle of bear
2. (intransitive) To be pierced or penetrated by an instrument that cuts as it turns.
3. (intransitive) To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool.
4. (intransitive) To push forward in a certain direction with laborious effort.
5. (obsolete) To fool; to trick.
6. (proscribed) simple past tense of bare
7. (transitive) To form or enlarge (something) by means of a boring instrument or apparatus.
8. (transitive) To inspire boredom in somebody.
9. (transitive) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; to force a narrow and difficult passage through.
10. (transitive) To make a hole through something.
11. (transitive, sports, slang) To push or drive (a boxer into the ropes, a boat out of its course, etc.).
12. simple past tense of bear

noun

1. cyborg

verb

1. Alternative spelling of Borg

noun

1. (Internet slang, humorous) The sound a dog makes.
2. (informal) The bald notothen or bald rockcod (Pagothenia borchgrevinki), a species of cod icefish (Nototheniidae) native to the Southern Ocean.

verb

1. (Internet slang, humorous) (of a dog) To bark
2. (intransitive, slang) To become broken or damaged, especially of a computer or other complex device.
3. (transitive, intransitive, US politics, often derogatory) To defeat a person's appointment or election, judicial nomination, etc., through a concerted attack on the person's character, background, and philosophy.
4. (transitive, slang) To misconfigure, break, or damage, especially a computer or other complex device.
5. (vulgar, slang) To boink.

adj

1. Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

noun

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (a stream)

verb

1. (Tyneside) Alternative spelling of burn (with fire etc.)
2. (obsolete) past participle of bear in other senses.
3. past participle of bear; given birth to.

noun

1. (US) Alternative spelling of borough

verb

1. (Jamaica) borrow

noun

1. plural of bor

noun

1. Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.

noun

1. Vigour or vivacity.

Proper noun

1. a city in the south of the Czech Republic

noun

1. A wedge-shaped spike used to secure the end of a timber where it abuts another. Much used in earlier times in the construction of tunnelled box-timber headings.

verb

1. (obsolete) To poke or prick

noun

1. A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.

verb

1. (transitive) To prod with a pointed instrument, such as a lance; to prick or pierce.
2. To broggle.

noun

1. (Scotland) broth

noun

1. plural of bro

noun

1. (figurative) Aspect; appearance.
2. (mining) A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.
3. (nautical) The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.
4. (nautical) The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.
5. The first tine of an antler's beam.
6. The forehead.
7. The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.
8. The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow.

verb

1. To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

noun

1. (US) a chest of drawers for clothes
2. a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
3. an office

noun

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

verb

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

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. (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.

noun

1. (Australia) A homeless person, a tramp; a social derelict, especially an alcoholic.

noun

1. Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.

noun

1. (computing, dated) A software mechanism by which a user can interact with a program running remotely on a bulletin board system. See BBS door.
2. (figurative) A barrier.
3. (figurative) A means of approach or access.
4. (figurative) A possibility.
5. (immigration) An entry point.
6. A portal of entry into a building, room, or vehicle, typically consisting of a rigid plane movable on a hinge. Doors are frequently made of wood or metal. May have a handle to help open and close, a latch to hold the door closed, and a lock that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
7. Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
8. The proceeds from entrance fees and/or ticket sales at a venue such as a bar or nightclub, especially in relation to portion paid to the entertainers. "The bar owner gives each band a percentage of the door and charges customers more to get in"

verb

1. (transitive, cycling) To cause a collision by opening the door of a vehicle in front of an oncoming cyclist or pedestrian.

noun

1. (archaic) Alternative form of dirk (“a long dagger”)
2. (derogatory, slang) A quirky, silly and/or stupid, socially inept person, or one who is out of touch with contemporary trends. Often confused with nerd and geek, but does not imply the same level of intelligence.

noun

1. Clipping of dormitory.

verb

1. (intransitive, informal) To reside in a dorm.

noun

1. A British ray; the thornback.

noun

1. (now chiefly South Africa) A village or small town; a town considered provincial.

noun

1. (obsolete) A drone or idler; a lazy person.
2. A dor, or dorbeetle.

noun

1. plural of dor

noun

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A sulky or sullen mood; the sulks.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become pettish; sulk.

adj

1. (obsolete) Of a bright yellow or golden color.

noun

1. (nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.
2. A wooden pike or spear about three metres (ten feet) in length with a flat, leaf-shaped iron spearhead and a bronze butt-spike (called a sauroter), which was the main weapon of hoplites in Ancient Greece. It was usually not thrown but rather thrust at opponents with one hand.
3. Any of several different families of large-eyed, silvery, deep-bodied, laterally compressed, and roughly discoid marine fish.

adj

1. Expressing gloom or melancholy.
2. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
3. Unyielding and obstinate.

noun

1. (American football) A dropped pass.
2. (American football) Short for drop-back.
3. (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
4. (US, banking, dated) An unsolicited credit card issue.
5. (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
6. (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
7. (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
8. (chiefly Australia, Britain) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
9. (chiefly Britain) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
10. (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
11. (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
12. (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
13. (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
14. (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
15. (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
16. (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
17. (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
18. (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
19. (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
20. (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
21. (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
22. (pinball) Short for drop target.
23. (rugby) Short for drop kick.
24. (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
25. A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
26. A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
27. A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
28. A release (of music, a video game, etc).
29. An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
30. An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
31. Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
32. Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
33. Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
34. Short for drop hammer and drop press.
35. The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
36. The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
37. The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
38. Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.

verb

1. (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
2. (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
3. (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
4. (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
5. (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
6. (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
7. (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
8. (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
9. (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
10. (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
11. (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
12. (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
13. (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
14. (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
15. (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
16. (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
17. (intransitive, obsolete) To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
18. (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
19. (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
20. (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
21. (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
22. (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
23. (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
24. (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
25. (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
26. (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
27. (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
28. (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
29. (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
30. (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
31. (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
32. (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
33. (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
34. (transitive, archaic) To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
35. (transitive, computing) To present the user with a more basic interface.
36. (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
37. (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
38. (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
39. (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
40. Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
41. To impart (something).
42. To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
43. To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
44. To perform (rap music).
45. To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
46. To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.

noun

1. (fantasy role-playing games, countable) A member of a fictional race of dark elves in various fantasy settings, such as Dungeons & Dragons.
2. (fantasy role-playing games, uncountable) A fictional constructed language spoken by the Drow.
3. (rare, mythology, countable) A trow; a member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.

Proper noun

1. a river in Spain that flows into the Mediterranean

adv

1. Consequently, therefore, or thus.

conj

1. therefore (especially in syllogisms)

noun

1. (informal) An ergonomic factor or characteristic.
2. (rowing, slang) Clipping of ergometer (rowing machine).

noun

1. (psychiatry) collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive.
2. (psychiatry) libido
3. A winged figure of a child representing love and/or its power.
4. Physical love; sexual desire.
5. a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else.

noun

1. A coin with a face value of one euro.
2. Abbreviation of European in any sense.
3. Macropus robustus, a wallaroo (macropod species).
4. The currency unit of the European Monetary Union. Symbol: €

noun

1. (card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.

noun

1. A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.

noun

1. plural of forum (alternative form of forums).

noun

1. (chiefly ecology) Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a graminoid (a grass, sedge, or rush).

noun

1. A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.
2. A stream; a current.

verb

1. To cross a stream using a ford.

adj

1. (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
2. Forward; situated towards the front (of something).

adv

1. (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.
2. (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
3. In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.

intj

1. (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

noun

1. The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.

noun

1. (Britain, vulgar) The crotch.
2. (by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
3. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
4. (colloquial) A forklift.
5. (content management) Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
6. (content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
7. (cryptocurrencies) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
8. (cycling, motorcycling, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
9. (figurative) A decision point.
10. (figuratively, decision-making) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
11. (metonymically) Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
12. (metonymically) Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
13. (metonymically, and analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
14. (mining) The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.
15. (obsolete) A gallows.
16. (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
17. (software) Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
18. (software) The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.
19. A tuning fork.
20. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
21. Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.
22. Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
23. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
24. The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

verb

1. (intransitive) To shoot into blades, as corn does.
2. (mining, transitive) To bale a shaft dry.
3. (transitive) Euphemistic form of fuck.
4. (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
5. (transitive, Britain) To kick someone in the crotch.
6. (transitive, intransitive) To divide into two or more branches or copies.
7. (transitive, intransitive, computing) To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.
8. (transitive, intransitive, software engineering) To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.
9. (transitive, software engineering) To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.

noun

1. (UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
2. (UK, education) A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
3. (archaic) A class or rank in society.
4. (computing, programming) A window or dialogue box.
5. (crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
6. (dated) A long bench with no back.
7. (fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
8. (geometry) A quantic.
9. (grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
10. (philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
11. (printing, dated) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
12. (sports, fitness) A specific way of performing a movement.
13. (taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.
14. A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
15. A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
16. A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
17. An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
18. Characteristics not involving atomic components.
19. Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
20. Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
21. Level of performance.
22. Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
23. Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
24. The den or home of a hare.
25. The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

verb

1. (electrical, historical, transitive) To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
2. (intransitive) To take shape.
3. (transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
4. (transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
5. (transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
6. (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
7. To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
8. To provide (a hare) with a form.
9. To put together or bring into being; assemble.

noun

1. (historical) An outlying trading-station, as in British North America.
2. A fortified defensive structure stationed with troops.
3. A structure improvised from furniture, bedding, etc., for playing games.
4. Any permanent army post.

verb

1. To create a fort, fortifications, a strong point, or a redoubt.

noun

1. (basketball, countable) A power forward.
2. (colloquial) A regatta event for four boats.
3. (countable) Anything measuring four units, as length.
4. (countable) The digit or figure 4; an occurrence thereof.
5. (cricket, countable) An event in which the batsmen run four times between the wickets or, more often, a batsman hits a ball which bounces on the ground before passing over a boundary, resulting in an award of 4 runs for the batting team. If the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary, a six is awarded instead.
6. (obsolete) A four-pennyworth of spirits.
7. A person who is four years old.
8. The crew rowing in a four boat.
9. The shell itself.

num

1. A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)
2. Describing a set or group with four elements.

noun

1. (obsolete) A dirty woman; a slattern; a frow.
2. A cleaving tool for splitting cask staves and shingles from a block of wood.

noun

1. (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.
2. (Cockney rhyming slang) Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
3. (fishing) A type of fishing lure that resembles a frog.
4. (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
5. (offensive) A French person.
6. (politics, slang, derogatory, Malaysia) defector: a politician who simply switches between different political parties.
7. (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).
8. A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
9. An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
10. An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button (covered with netted thread), toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.
11. Any of a class of small tailless amphibians of the order Anura that typically hop.
12. The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.

verb

1. (transitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake.
2. (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
3. (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).
4. To hunt or trap frogs.
5. To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.

prep

1. (MLE) Indicates a starting state of the predicament of the subject. Synonym of since being
2. (mathematics, chiefly Britain, not in formal use) Denoting a subtraction operation.
3. Indicating a starting point in time.
4. Indicating a starting point on a range or scale.
5. Indicating a starting point on an array or gamut of conceptual variations.
6. Indicating differentiation.
7. Indicating exclusion.
8. Indicating removal or separation.
9. Originating at (a year, time, etc.)
10. Produced with or out of (a substance or material).
11. Used to indicate a starting point or initial reference.
12. Used to indicate causation; because of, as a result of.
13. Used to indicate source or provenance.
14. With reference to the location or position of a speaker or other observer or vantage point.

noun

1. A sexual act in which two males rub each other's penises with their penis.

verb

1. (archaic) To rub, chafe.
2. (slang) To rub one's genitals – usually the penis – against another person for sexual gratification.
3. (tanning) To work leather by rubbing.

adj

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Brittle; tender; crisp

noun

1. (obsolete) A big, fat woman; a slovenly, coarse, or untidy woman; a woman of low character.
2. (obsolete) A slovenly woman; a wench; a lusty woman.
3. A cleaving tool with handle at right angles to the blade, for splitting cask staves and shingles from the block; a frower.
4. A woman; a wife, especially a Dutch or German one.
5. Alternative spelling of froe (“cleaving tool”)

noun

1. (Britain, informal) An unemployment benefit cheque.
2. (in Europe) A transfer of funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.

verb

1. To transfer funds between different account holders, carried out by the bank according to payer's written instructions.

noun

1. Obsolete form of gore (dirt, mud).

noun

1. (Britain, slang) A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity.
2. (dated) A horse, considered in reference to its gait.
3. (informal) Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully.
4. (obsolete) A foot (body part).
5. One who, or that which, goes.

noun

1. (India, Pakistan, British, Turkish) A white person.

noun

1. (archaeology) A medieval Slavonic fortified settlement, typically a group of wooden houses surrounded by a wall of earth and wood, with a palisade running along the top of the bulwark.
2. (obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.

noun

1. (heraldry) One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point.
2. (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt; mud; filth.
3. (surveying) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
4. A projecting point.
5. A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.ᵂᵖ
6. A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
7. An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
8. Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
9. Murder, bloodshed, violence.
10. The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear.
2. (transitive, of an animal) To pierce with the horn.
3. To cut in a triangular form.
4. To provide with a gore.

noun

1. A loose mixture of dried fruit, nuts, frequently salt, and sometimes other ingredients; designed as an energy supplement for use while hiking, climbing, canoeing, etc.

adj

1. (informal) Unpleasant.
2. Covered with blood; very bloody.

noun

1. A pool in a cave confined by a dam of mineral deposits accumulating along its rim.
2. Dated form of gaur.

noun

1. (by extension, Australia, New Zealand) Any alcoholic beverage.
2. (ceramics) A type of pre-fired clay that has been ground and screened to a specific particle size.
3. (countable, Australia, New Zealand) A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage.
4. (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy.
5. An alcoholic beverage made with hot water or tea, sugar and rum, sometimes also with lemon or lime juice and spices, particularly cinnamon.

verb

1. (ceramics) To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.

noun

1. (poetic) A grotto.
2. (slang, countable) A miserable person.
3. (slang, uncountable) Any unpleasant substance or material.

verb

1. (copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
2. (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude.
3. (ergative, of plants) To undergo growth; to be present (somewhere)
4. (intransitive) To appear or sprout.
5. (intransitive) To develop, to mature.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
7. (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.

noun

1. (cycling) Synonym of detangler.
2. A gyrocompass.
3. A gyroscope.
4. A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.
5. An autogyro.

noun

1. (US) A large sandwich made from meats and cheeses; a hero sandwich.
2. (film, photography, chiefly attributive) The product chosen from several candidates to be photographed, as in food advertising, or with props used in a movie.
3. (poker) The current player, especially an hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: villain (“any opponent player”). Not to be confused with hero call (“a weak call against a supposed bluff”).
4. (web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.
5. A role model.
6. Somebody who possesses great bravery and carries out extraordinary or noble deeds.
7. The protagonist in a work of fiction.

adj

1. (archaic) Figuratively, grey-haired with age.
2. (obsolete) Musty; mouldy; stale.
3. (poetic) Hoarily bearded.
4. Of a white or greyish-white colour.

noun

1. A white or greyish-white colour.
2. Hoariness; antiquity.

verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To become mouldy or musty.

noun

1. One who hoes.

noun

1. A branch of traditional Indian astrology, dealing with the finer points of predictive methods.
2. A circle dance popular in the Balkans, Israel and Yiddish culture worldwide.

noun

1. (architecture) The Ionic volute.
2. (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
3. (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
4. (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
5. (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
6. (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
7. (countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
8. (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
9. (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
10. (countable, geography) A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
11. (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
12. (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
13. (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
14. (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
15. (slang, countable, from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
16. (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
17. (uncountable, vulgar, slang, definite article) An erection of the penis.
18. An antler.
19. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
20. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
21. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
22. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.

verb

1. (transitive) To furnish with horns.
2. (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
3. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.